Round-by-Round: Josh Kelly vs. David Avanesyan - 20 February 2021

[MightyWarrior]

Why is the ref telling him to calm down, is he worried he’s going to incite the crowd ?

[Counter-puncher]

Can’t fvcking believe I was too lazy to put my bet on

Yeah I don’t bet but I was very convinced Ava was having this one, should have been one of my rare ones.

[Terminator666]

Very composed Avaesyan I thought

[Frostieballs]

Why is the ref telling him to calm down, is he worried he’s going to incite the crowd ?

Good job that security guard is there.

[Fightnight Scores]

Boxing....bloody hell!

[Ruthless-RKO]

Matchroom going to have to get rid of their match maker at this rate!

Nothing wrong with this fight.

2 years in the making.

[jameswilson]

Amazed this is such a surprise to the Sky team.

Kelly looked like AIDS against the American on the AJ undercard at MSG.

Ava has stopped Legarraga twice in the last few years.

[margaret thatcher]

was ava in control for me after 3 (dudes really gave the 4th to kelly ??), kelly started bright but then burned out fast

[brilo33]

i find it really weird kelly looked so well built his hamstrings shoulders are huge , kelly aint that type of fighter he is a boxer out side moving jabing moving, looked total different fighter today

[Frostieballs]

A victory for substance over style.

[maverick23]

Another really good main event. Credit to Matchroom for the shows in the last 2 weeks. Both have had some class fights.

Disappointed in Kelly. Lots of classy stuff but too much posturing and he throws loads in to his shots which would have been part of the reason he was tired.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Does Ava always start slow?

[Ruthless-RKO]

Towel thrown in twice. Glad no judges were needed.

[brilo33]

Amazed this is such a surprise to the Sky team.

Kelly looked like AIDS against the American on the AJ undercard at MSG.

Ava has stopped Legarraga twice in the last few years.

well aids aint looked that buff since magic j

[margaret thatcher]

Wow. Never seen a fighter on top fall apart so quickly not even halfway through a fight

saw it coming from the 4th on, started to fiddle around more, stay too long in one place, and get hit more and more


ava also tightened his work up a bit and focused more on short inside shots and body work after finding it hard to hit kellys head from outside earlier on

[JxhDel.]

Crazy card. Great job by Ava!

[lefthook82]

For what it's worth I thought the fight was eevn going into the 6th. Commentators on dazn were ignoring all of David's work

[brilo33]

Amazed this is such a surprise to the Sky team.

Kelly looked like AIDS against the American on the AJ undercard at MSG.

Ava has stopped Legarraga twice in the last few years.

i know what were saying against Robinson he switchs on an off , well this was always a possibilite,

[margaret thatcher]

For what it's worth I thought the fight was eevn going into the 6th. Commentators on dazn were ignoring all of David's work

no kidding, at least took the 4th and the 5th. the 4th he landed well throughout while kelly just pranced around not throwing the whole round, then i come on here and dudes have the 4th for kelly

[My T Sharp]

Wow. Never seen a fighter on top fall apart so quickly not even halfway through a fight

saw it coming from the 4th on, started to fiddle around more, stay too long in one place, and get hit more and more


ava also tightened his work up a bit and focused more on short inside shots and body work after finding it hard to hit kellys head from outside earlier on

That’s the strange thing for me. Team Kelly surely knew he had to do 12 hard rounds to win on points and he unraveled in less than 6.

[brilo33]

Wow. Never seen a fighter on top fall apart so quickly not even halfway through a fight

saw it coming from the 4th on, started to fiddle around more, stay too long in one place, and get hit more and more


ava also tightened his work up a bit and focused more on short inside shots and body work after finding it hard to hit kellys head from outside earlier on

it was because kelly dont fight like that and to try to bang a man out like that was wrong, i like booth but that was wrong

[handsofstone]

The wheels just came right off Kelly there, he looked superb first couple rounds, too quick and sharp for Avanesyan who kept walking onto counters, got wobbled a bit from a left hook in the 2nd, it looked like maybe Kelly was starting to fight his best fight but Avanesyan kept pressuring, making Kelly look uncomfortable, the cuts seemed to bother him, Avanesyan wasn't always landing clean but he was a pest and by the 5th he was on top of Kelly, still a shock to see Kelly go down, rocked from a right then looked like he chose to take a count after getting nailed with another, it was a left hook from Avanesyan that buckled his legs for the finish, the follow up was irrelevant, Kelly was down and done, good call to throw towel in, Kelly was spent

[Boxerbeetle]

Really enjoyable card anyway. Been a good couple of weeks for Saturday night boxing on Sky

[skanksta]

It's gotta be the weight.
An elite athlete shouldn't look that gaunt @ the WI - trying to be a weight division bigger (he was).
@ the cost of turning in to David Price.

[dookus]

Amazed this is such a surprise to the Sky team.

Kelly looked like AIDS against the American on the AJ undercard at MSG.

Ava has stopped Legarraga twice in the last few years.

Just as in the draw against Ray Robinson, Kelly started brilliant and sharp at long range but by round 5 was forced to fight inside as he tired and his reflexes slowed. This time it was Ava there ready to pounce, and as the Lejarraga fight showed, he's a lethal finisher when his man's hurt.