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Beat a two time world champion and is back teaching kids again soon. Some fella. Hope he gets chance to do it full time as his QTS won’t expire so he can always come back to it. His dad is ace too so positive.

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑14 Jun 2026, 14:51 Beat a two time world champion and is back teaching kids again soon. Some fella. Hope he gets chance to do it full time as his QTS won’t expire so he can always come back to it. His dad is ace too so positive.

I can see him fighting Ben Whittaker next.

keithmoonhangover wrote: ↑14 Jun 2026, 15:41

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑14 Jun 2026, 14:51 Beat a two time world champion and is back teaching kids again soon. Some fella. Hope he gets chance to do it full time as his QTS won’t expire so he can always come back to it. His dad is ace too so positive.

I can see him fighting Ben Whittaker next.

Be a good fight that

He posted this on X yesterday.

"I was promised a big fight after that [David Morrell] knockout. ... If any other light heavyweight did what I did, like Joshua Buatsi or Willy Hutchinson or Anthony Yarde, they'd be promoted like crazy, but I wasn't. I was left under the rug. They promised me an interim world title either against Willy Hutchinson or Joshua Buatsi or a name big like that. Unfortunately, we wouldn't be able to fight Callum Smith because he's with a different promotion. But [Buatsi or Hutchinson] should have been possible. I was sold a dream. They didn't promote me. They tried to sweep me under the rug. They said, 'Within 6 months, you'll be fighting for an interim world title.' Yesterday in a meeting, I found out it's all been lies. There is no big fight for me. There never was. My contract is now void with them. I'm a free agent."

Was promised a fight after his last win.

Nothing since.

Shame.

Video he posted alongside

Deserves a bit of that Zuffa money !

Floydendizer wrote: ↑31 Aug 2026, 08:43 Deserves a bit of that Zuffa money !

Agreed! I don't like Zuffa but Zak deserves at the very least a good payday.

Whichever promoter can get him the money I hope he signs with them, and gets the payday he's earned.

That win over Morrell was one of my fave boxing moments of the last few years, he deserves something big off the back of it. Good luck to him.

deadpan wrote: ↑31 Aug 2026, 13:49

Floydendizer wrote: ↑31 Aug 2026, 08:43 Deserves a bit of that Zuffa money !

Agreed! I don't like Zuffa but Zak deserves at the very least a good payday.

Why don’t you like Zuffa?

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑31 Aug 2026, 14:07

deadpan wrote: ↑31 Aug 2026, 13:49

Floydendizer wrote: ↑31 Aug 2026, 08:43 Deserves a bit of that Zuffa money !

Agreed! I don't like Zuffa but Zak deserves at the very least a good payday.

Why don’t you like Zuffa?

I loathe Dana and Turki. Awful humans. And their plans to erode the Ali Act is reprehensible.

His dad's always on FB and the like. Seems a proper character.
Whittaker would be a nice earner for him.

rd350lc wrote: ↑31 Aug 2026, 16:19 His dad's always on FB and the like. Seems a proper character.
Whittaker would be a nice earner for him.

His dad is great. Zak is a lovely human being and an ambassador for the sport

i wonder how he'd fare again imam khataev, the guy who was robbed vs morrell

I saw some rankings just now which has Yarde at number 4. Buatsi at 5. In the World.

It got me thinking. Is Chelli's win over Morrell better then either of their best wins?

In fact can you make a better win by a current British Light Heavy?

Is it true he knocked out Whittaker at a GB camp and best him in the AM's?