Bakhram Sait-Khamzatovich Murtazaliev vs. Joshua Kelly & Josh Padley vs. Jaouad Belmehdi RBR.

Question for all the people saying he ran… Murtazaliev clearly should be fighting a couple weight classes higher than this. He looked huge in there. Is it really some big injustice that Kelly boxed like that?

Fair enough criticising him if he did that to another normal sized 154 lb’er, but who really cares that he did it to Murtazaliev? Kelly was severely outsized, he had to win somehow.

 

Dry your eyes dude Jesus Christ . Boxing = hit and don’t get hit .

 

Ah, styles make fights I guess. Avenesyan may not be elite, but he will always catch up with you and make you trade a bit. Against certain top guys, that just gets him knocked out quicker, but it messes up Kelly's gameplan very badly.

 

If you're saying that you think the best you can give Kelly is a draw, then 2 judges having it one round away from that doesn't sound like a robbery. I thought it was very tight. I'm not convinced either really did enough consistently to be considered a clear deserving winner.

 

He fought the fight he was supposed to. He outboxed and frustrated Murtazaliev. If he were a coward then he wouldn't have stepped into the ring in the first place against a man like Murtazaliev. He took on the most avoided fighter in the division, a huge puncher who was seen as a boogeyman and you're calling him a coward just because you don't like his style. Whatever wins a fight wins a fight, and if a fighter has to fight dirty or brawl or box to get the win then that's just how the sport goes. I think you're bitter about Murtazaliev losing and I really am not in the right headspace to debate right now, respectfully.

 

Timing, I guess

I feel like Kelly’s work in the Ava fight was better-at least from a judging point of view, but his gas tank let him down

Plus Ava applied that style much better that night, he was relentless and really put the pressure on Kelly- murtazaliev didn’t do that tonight-lots of walking forward but not enough punches or variety shown imo

 

So no fighter can get credit for improving it’s just roids? He’s always been good I remember when he won the ABA’s

 

im talking about kelly not every boxer what are you on about ffs

 

Kelly is a lot stronger at LMW. I’m sure he used to box at 69kg as an amateur. I know he had a big amateur background but only his 20th pro fight, I probably wrote him off a bit myself but in reality of course he will still be improving.

 

Thought kelly deserved it. Just a hard style for bak. Kellys movement and reflexes we,re a little bit too sharp for him.