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He gained a fast-track qualification to become a supply teacher. Within weeks, Chelli was standing in front of a high school class. <\/p>\n
“To be honest, they wanted just anyone with a degree because teachers were dropping like flies because of Covid,” he says. <\/p>\n
“On my first day, they gave me a year 10 class in a girls’ school. I was teaching GCSE geography – I didn’t even do GCSE geography!<\/p>\n
“But the first day went so well they asked me to come back for a couple of months.”<\/p>\n
His new vocation served a purpose but Chelli soon realised teaching was not his calling. <\/p>\n
“I was doing 8am to 4pm days and I soon realised how tough a working day is,” he says. “I realised I do not want to do this for the rest of my life. Boxing is what I wanted to do.”<\/p>\n
After a breakout win over American Anthony Sims Jr – a decorated amateur – in February 2023, he suffered a shock loss against Chorley’s Mark Jeffers four months later. <\/p>\n
“That loss really was a wake-up call,” he says. “Perhaps I got a bit too arrogant and complacent.”<\/p>\n
He scoffs at the idea of ever returning to the classroom. Instead Chelli – now promoted by Ben Shalom’s Boxxer – is focused on dishing out some punishment to rival Cullen at the M&S Bank Arena this weekend. <\/p>\n
“We fought in 2020 and it was a draw. I felt I won. But I was only 22 and now I believe I am in my prime,” Chelli says. <\/p>\n
“Throughout my career, my father has been saying I’m the best super-middleweight in Great Britain – now this is a chance to prove it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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