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

Any objective observer has Murtzaliev beating Kelly in that fight. Anything els is subjectivity.

 

Half of baks punches we,re body shots. Your always going to get more points with clear face shots than body shots imo. Especially when your making the opponent miss most of the night and countering well. Close fight.

 

Just watching the highlights and Murtzaliev looks surprisingly stale offensively. Looks like he couldn't adapt to Kelly's reflexive defense of feints very well. But these are dazn highlights lol.

I'm gonna have to score this myself considering the debate here.

 

I might come back with a more detailed verdict on the fight, admittedly I had only seen the Tszyu fight but for one thing all that boogeyman talk were really squashed last night no matter what you think of the scoring. It was close and Bakhram looked so beatable, I feel he lost last night, even with Kelly’s lack of power I think he could have potentially put more of a hurting on him, but that was potentially crossing a line between winning and getting too greedy.

Yes, I think Kelly is likely to have a short reign and additionally gets dispatched comfortably by the following, but I think Boots and Ortiz absolutely put a beating on him. Then following that theres a good bunch of names I expect at their best to also have a good night against him, Fundora, Madrimov, Zayas, I think you look at Brandon Adams and Bohachuk too.

Theres so much talk in this thread about him being wronged but judging that performance as a whole and with his perceived standing it was not enough to really send a message.

 

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It was a 7-5 type of fight

Flashier and eye catching work from Kelly

Bakram the aggressor but missing alot and looking one dimensional

 

Weird thing to say this imo, “if he had have scored it to murtazaliev, as one other judge did” wtf is this all about? That’s not how it works

 

An average of under three power punches per round landed for Kelly; that is no way to win a world title.

 

Murtazaliev won the fight. Kelly was holding to hold and the ref protected him

 

"...the highly unusual 10-10 scoring of rd 12 by judge Steve Gray. Had he scored it for Murtazaliev (as 1 judge did)..."

 

I don't think the IBF will order a rematch. In my opinion there's nothing wrong with that verdict, it was a close fight. For this very reason, in any case, I'd like to see a rematch. The outcome would be uncertain and it would be interesting to see if and how the two fighters would change from what we have. But Eddie Hearn has understandably stated he has other plans for Kelly.