David Avanesyan vs Josh Kelly 2021-02-20

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Event
David Avanesyan vs Josh Kelly

Date
Sat 20th February 2021 (UTC)
Sat 20th February 2021 (Local)

Timestamp

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19:00:00 UTC (19:00:00 Local)

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League
Boxing

Season
2021

Round
8

Status

Location
The SSE Arena

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Description

Russia’s European Welterweight Champion Avanesyan (26-3-1, 14 KOs) makes his long-awaited Title defence against Kelly (10-0-1, 6 KOs) at the top of the bill on February 20, Liverpool Super-Welterweight Anthony Fowler (13-1, 10 KOs) returns against Spain’s Jorge Fortea (21-2-1, 7 KOs), undefeated Welterweights Florian Marku (7-0-1, 5 KOs) and Rylan Charlton (6-0-1, 3 KOs) meet in what promises to be an explosive ten-round battle, Amy Timlin (4-0-1) and Carly Skelly (3-0-1) rematch for the vacant Commonwealth Super-Bantamweight Title after their split draw on the Oleksandr Usyk vs. Derek Chisora undercard last October and explosive Romford Heavyweight Johnny Fisher makes his highly anticipated professional debut.

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Result Description
Britain's Josh Kelly suffered the first defeat of his professional career as Russian David Avanesyan defended his European welterweight title.

The fight, postponed three times from its original 2018 date, produced some frenetic action at Wembley Arena.

Kelly, 26, with 10 wins and a draw previously, shook his 32-year-old opponent with a left hook in round two.

But Avanesyan cut Kelly's eye in the same round and constant pressure saw the towel thrown in during round six.

Both men were fighting for the first time since December 2019 and, after Kelly's impressive start, the shorter Avanesyan began to exert control.

Kelly was given a standing count in the sixth and, as the combinations to the body and head from Avanesyan continued, the Sunderland boxer's team spared their bloodied man from further punishment.

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