[2][3][4] Charlie Magri went to St Philip Howard RC Secondary School in Upper North Street E14.
He gained the following ABA titles: He also won a bronze medal at the 1975 European championships,[8] and boxed for Great Britain in the 1976 Summer Olympics losing in the third round to Ian Clyde of Canada.
While working as a tailor's cutter by day,[11] he had his first professional fight in October 1977, at the age of twenty-one; He knocked out Neil Mclaughlin in the second round at the Royal Albert Hall.
In March 1983, he fought Eleoncio Mercedes, of the Dominican Republic, for the WBC and lineal flyweight titles.
[19] In his next fight, in August 1984, Magri fought for the vacant European flyweight title that he had previously relinquished.
Magri won in the first round when a clash of heads left the Italian so badly cut that the referee had to stop the fight.
The fight was held at the Alexandra Palace, London and Chitalada won on a technical knockout at the start of the fifth, after Magri's corner retired him due to cuts.
[20] In October 1985, Magri fought a re-match against Franco Cherchi, in Alessandria, Italy, winning by a knockout in the second round.