Jimmy Kelly’s  Family: Full Details

Jimmy Kelly can be described as a British professional boxer. Jimmy Kelly was born on September 1, 1992. His father was a former amateur boxer and was born in Ireland. He is known to have held the WBO Inter-Continental light-middleweight title and challenged for the WBO light-middleweight title in 2015.

It must be noted that when Jimmy Kelly was an amateur boxer, he was quite successful. He won three junior ABA titles and two national schoolboy titles. He turned a professional when he was 19 years old and at that time , his record stood at 70-5.

With respect to the professional of Jimmy Kelly and for the Light middleweight division, he fought the likes of Rios, Smith and Kostov. In the bout against Rios, he outpointed Martin Fidel Rios over ten rounds at the AO Arena, Manchester. He won the WBO Inter-Continental light middleweight title based on the results on the scorecards; 99-89, 100-87 and 98-89.

Later in the fight against Smith in 2015, it must be noted that Jimmy Kelly lost in the seventh round by TKO. He could not snatch the WBO light middleweight title. Jimmy Kelly also fought Kostov and became the WBO Inter-Continental light middleweight titleholder.

He knocked Kostov down in the first round and twice in the fourth round . In the middleweight division, Jimmy Kelly defeated middleweight contender Kanat Islam in ProBox Promotions’ main event in Plant City, Florida.

The scores were 95-95, 96-94 and 97-93 and Jimmy Kelly captured the WBO global middleweight title.

Jimmy Kelly came face-to-face against former WBO junior middleweight champion Jaime Munguía at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California in a catchweight bout. Unfortunately, the referee stopped the bout in the fifth round after Jimmy Kelly had been knocked three times.

It is known that Kelly takes a blade of grass from his mother’s graveside and places it in his hand wraps before any fight.

Jimmy Kelly’s  Family

The names of the parents of Jimmy Kelly are currently not available. However, Jimmy Kelly is known to have an elder sister called Rebecca. Jimmy Kelly is married and as of 2018, he had two kids.

Reference :

https://www.facebook.com/jimmykellyjnr/photos/a.658355240844873/2377814582232255/?paipv=0&eav=AfbPDc1Ko73LFOq4zNMe_ASu2-KRaeUCJo7aWPglbnAVT6YF6iVnFq2XbEQ8DRQ62CY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Kelly_(boxer,_born_1992)


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