I was a plasterer… but now I’m favourite of boxing billionaire boss Turki Alalshikh after shock call at company curry

MARK CHAMBERLAIN has told SunSport however helium took a life-changing telephone from the astir almighty antheral successful satellite boxing - and said he’d telephone him backmost aft the institution Christmas curry!

The 25-year-old Portsmouth lightweight was a plasterer earlier his freakish southpaw powerfulness helped him box full-time.

And 1 of his York Hall performances caught the oculus of Saudi athletics and showbiz supremo Turki Alalshikh.

But helium remains adjacent to his aged steadfast and colleagues truthful got the motion to be past year’s festive phaal and jingaloo.

So erstwhile the daze telephone telephone came, portion helium was driving from the enactment with a belly afloat of bhuna, helium accidentally gave boxing’s precise ain Santa Clause the heave-ho.

Ahead of his Wembley clash with Josh Padley, the Pompey ace told us: "I had a combat successful November and didn’t person my adjacent 1 confirmed.

"So I had gone retired connected a work’s bash and was connected my mode location erstwhile the telephone came.

"I had travel disconnected the tools good earlier past but they had invited maine retired for a curry and we were connected the mode from the curry astir 9pm.

"My manager Frank Warren was calling maine and I knew helium was successful Saudi for a combat that Christmas and it seemed a spot strange.

"But I answered it and Frank explained astir the accidental and helium passed the telephone to the main man.

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"I volition ne'er hide it, due to the fact that I was driving, I said ‘Can I telephone you back?’

"Thankfully his Excellency said ‘no problem, don’t crash’".

Like Padley - who is simply a Doncaster electrician - Chamberlain built his enactment ethic, intelligence toughness and, perhaps, powerfulness connected site.

And his character-building way to mega-money shows astatine 96,000 seater Wembley Stadium has been a gruelling 1 that has earned him each penny coming his way.

He explained: "Plastering is simply a precise hard and carnal job.

"You don’t timepiece disconnected for breaks erstwhile the timepiece tells you, you enactment until your walls are each done.

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"But I knew nary antithetic and it was a occupation I did for years.

"I don’t cognize if it helped with my power, I get asked that, I person ever been a carnal kid.

"And I was ne'er funny successful the enactment life, distant from enactment and boxing, truthful I conjecture the hard enactment has conscionable paid off."

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