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Tony Bellew says he was thrust into boxing after being expelled from school for beating up his classmate after the violated their teacher.
The former WBC cruiserweight world champion attended Lawrence Community Primary before transferring to Childwall Comprehensive for his senior years.
However, it was at Childwall that Bellew was permanently excluded after stepping in to defend his teacher after a fellow pupil squirted a juice box in their face.
Bellew was asked to leave after 'taking it too far' by breaking the boy's jaw and smashing his teeth. Although, he was later offered the chance to return to the school to attend their sixth form.
Speaking about the incident during a fireside interview with Kody 'Big Mo' Mommaerts for NMBS, Bellew said: 'I didn't really start taking boxing seriously until I was expelled from school.
Tony Bellew says he was thrust into boxing after being expelled from school for beating up his classmate after the violated his teacher
Bellew was asked to leave after 'taking it too far' by breaking the boy's jaw and smashing his teeth. Although, he was later offered the chance to attend their sixth form
The former world champion went on to add: 'I soon realised, I better do this [boxing] because it's the only thing I am good at.
'Believe it or not, I was expelled from school for guess what, fighting. That was the end of it. But, just to clarify, I wasn't a bully or anything. Another pupil hit a teacher in the school.
'Now, if it was my math teacher I would have applauded them and laughed all the way, but a young man decided to burst a carton of Ribena in a female teacher's face.
'I ended up breaking his jaw and knocking all of his teeth out. The school expelled me because I took the force too far. So, that went fantastically well. Only for the school to invite me back a year later and ask me to do
