Josh Kelly spends a while speaking to Ring Journal and explains why he’s greater than prepared to tackle some opponents that supposedly are having onerous occasions discovering dance companions. Take a look at a few of what he needed to say under.
Kelly on whether or not he’d battle Murtazaliev
“The politics of boxing’s mad,” Kelly mentioned. “I heard Turki Alalshikh saying he can’t get nobody to battle Murtazaliev. Pay attention, get your man to battle me, proper? I’ll battle Murtazaliev, I’ll battle him no downside. And about Tom & Jerry fights and all these items, it’s like kinds make fights. If there weren’t no nice Cassius Clay’s, if there have been no nice Sugar Ray Leonards or Willie Peps or Ray Robinson or any of them guys there wouldn’t be any kinds, everybody would simply be standing within the heart of the ring.
“This Tim & Jerry fighter will go in there and he’ll beat Murtazaliev, stand him on his head. So let’s make that battle…we put our identify in for that battle and we haven’t heard nothing again. So put your cash the place your mouth is, I’ll take Murtazaliev.”
On his curiosity in combating Xander Zayas
“I must be combating him subsequent, actually. I must be combating him subsequent. He was calling me out final 12 months and on the time none of us actually was anyplace, however now that he’s acquired the world title come and battle me subsequent. Let me battle you subsequent, I’m the following within the rating.”
On a proposal to battle Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis from Eddie Hearn
“The supply’s sh-t. He’s finished it like ‘you bought to answer inside 24 hours or we’re transferring to a unique opponent,’ and it weren’t Eddie, it have been Eddie’s Lawyer who despatched it. It’s all smoke and mirrors, after which they put it out within the media. Pay attention, I’ll take the Jaron Ennis battle, 100%. Give me the correct cash and the correct time, I’m there. I’ll battle Jaron Ennis.”
