Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-12-19, fight not so exciting between Liam Smith and Jimmy Kelly: it gets two stars.Both undefeated, the 27-year-old Liam Smith (four years more than Kelly) entered this fight with a boxing record of 21-0-1 (11 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.19 super welterweight in the world while his opponent, ‘Jimmy’ Kilrain Kelly, has a perfect record of 16-0-0 (7 knockouts) and he entered as the No.82 in the same weight class. Smith has already fought three times in 2015 defeating Robert Talarek, David Ezequiel Romero and John Thompson (bout valid for the vacant Wbo belt, Smith vs Thompson) while Kelly has fought four times beating Martin Fidel Rios in his last one. Smith vs Kelly is valid for the WBO World super welterweight title (Smith’s first defense); undercard of Andy Lee vs Billy Joe Saunders. Watch the video and rate this fight!
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Date: 2015-12-19
Where: Manchester Arena, Manchester, United Kingdom
Division: light middleweight (154 lbs, 69.9 kg)
Title: WBO World super welterweight title
Smith’s previous fight: Liam Smith vs John Thompson
Smith’s next fight: Liam Smith vs Predrag Radosevic
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What a bad referee! First penalty he takes 2 points away, then he somehow calls a slip right before stopping it. Anyway, Nice win for Smith.
Yeah that was hilariously incompetent refereeing. Kelly clearly felt a delayed effect from one of the punches & fell to the floor. How could that be a slip?
Wouldn’t mind seeing Smith-Cotto next myself.
Smith vs Cotto?!?! impossible!!! Hbo will never put money in a fight with Liam Smith at the moment…and in general, I can’t see him beating boxers like these ones: Cotto, Erislandy Lara, Charlo brothers, Demetrius Andrade, Austin Trout….
Yeah, you’re probably right. I was just thinking that would be the only chance of Cotto picking up a world title. Al Haymon controls the other title holders in the division.