Tyler Denny has had a busy few days.

On Saturday night, the Black Country banger earned a big shock victory over the previously undefeated Felix Cash, securing a fight against Hamzah Sheeraz on the Anthony Joshua versus Daniel Dubois undercard.

Denny has gone from failing to win the English title twice, to European champion and fighting on Joshua’s undercard

Sheeraz, who many believe to be the best middleweight in Britain, is a favourite of Saudi boxing chief HE Turki Alalshikh and has been given a major slot on Riyadh Season’s September 21 Wembley Stadium showpiece event.

If Denny – the reigning European middleweight champion – can upset the apple cart once again, then he could be thrust straight into a world title fight, with Sheeraz ranked No.1 by the WBC at present.

The circumstances he currently finds himself in would have been unthinkable three years ago when the 32-year-old was working as a plumber for Dudley Council.

At the time, Denny was 12-2-2 as a professional and had just failed at picking up the English middleweight strap for the second time of asking against Linus Udofia.

However, his fortunes would change when he was given the opportunity to quit his job and pursue boxing full-time by a generous sponsor.

“Yeah, I was working as a plumber in 2021 and boxing on the side,” he told talkSPORT.com. “I can’t thank a certain sponsor, SNR Construction, enough.

“For the Derrick [Osaze] fight he approached me and said ‘This is a big fight, have a month off work and he paid my wages for a month’.

“I won that fight and then he said ‘Oh, that was great, you need to have a year off work’.

Denny faces Sheeraz on September 21 in a main card slot at Wembley Stadium.

“I was thinking ‘I can’t really have a year off work’ but then he said ‘I’ll look after you, quit your job, I’ll pay your wages for a year and if it doesn’t work out how you want it to work out then you can have a job with me’. So that was that I quit my job the next day.”

His win over Derrick Osaze led to a third crack at the English title against River Wilson-Bent, which ended in a technical draw after the fight was stopped in the eighth round due to a cut.

Referee Ian John-Lewis ruled that the gash had been caused by a clash of heads, even though it appeared to have been opened up by a punch.

Denny felt understandably hard done by at the time, but he now admits it was a blessing in disguise.

“I wouldn’t change anything about that first fight, because it’s weird how it all worked out,” he added.

“If we hadn’t drawn I don’t know where I’d be right now because what happened then was Hennessey came off Channel Five and the second fight was booked for June on Sky Sports with BOXXER.”

Denny won the rematch via split decision and from there he signed with BOXXER.

Just four days after beating Cash, Denny was in London announcing his fight with Sheeraz

A four-fight winning streak followed en route to him snatching the European title from Italy’s Matteo Signani and defending it against Cash.

Then, one day removed from the biggest triumph of his career, Denny received a phone call from his manager.

“We’ve won the Cash fight, I was nice and chilled and happy and then I got a phone call on Sunday from my manager Errol Johnson about the Hamzah Sheeraz fight,” Denny continued.

“I’ve had phone calls like this before – obviously nowhere near this scale – but it’s ended up not happening so I didn’t take much notice of it.

“But then on Monday, the phone went mad, it kept ringing. Errol is a man of very few words, he’s never phoned me so many times so I knew something was definitely up.

“On Tuesday we went to the Sky Sports studios where we spoke some more about it and then on the way back it went a bit quiet again.

“But I knew it was happening when Ben Shalom rang me and then it was confirmed at half 10 on Tuesday night, that they needed me in London the next day [for the press conference].

“I had promised the Mrs we would have some time together this week as I’d abandoned her with the kids for the last few weeks but I’ve not seen her once this week I don’t think.

“I’m sure she’ll get over it though.”

Five years ago, when Denny lost to Udofia at Bethnal Green’s York Hall he pocketed £2,500.

Now, he is fighting for ‘life-changing money’ on the biggest British boxing card of the year.

It’s remarkable how quickly things can change in boxing.