{"id":820790,"date":"2026-07-24T12:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820790\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:03:10","slug":"caomhin-agyarko-ego-will-be-josh-kellys-world-title-downfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820790\/","title":{"rendered":"Caomhin Agyarko: Ego will be Josh Kelly&#8217;s World Title Downfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ego will prove Josh Kelly\u2019s downfall in Jeddah on Saturday night, says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irish-boxing.com\/?s=Caoimhin+Agyarko\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caoimhin Agyarko<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The Belfast boxer challenges the Brit for his light middleweight world crown on the undercard of the Anthony Johua fight. <\/p>\n<p>The Holy Trinity graduate believes he will defeat the stylist to become Ireland\u2019s latest world champion. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Black Thunder\u2019s\u2019 confidence is increased by the fact he believes the champion has an overconfidence weakness. <\/p>\n<p>Agyarko says history shows \u2018Pretty Boy\u2019s ego can be his enemy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJosh is very good. He\u2019s very skillful, very slick. But I believe that his mentality and his ego will be his downfall in this fight just like it was in the Avanesean fight when he thought that he could be the man and stand with Avanesean. And that his ego crept in and I believe that will be his downfall in this fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Avanesean is the sole blemish on the title holder\u2019s record and a defeat he says he has learnt so much from. Agyarko understands the English fighter won\u2019t drop to that level again and isn\u2019t underestimating the challenge at hand.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, he believes Kelly\u2019s world title win and who he dethroned to claim the title prove just how good the champion is. Although the Stephen Smith trained puncher also points to that victoryver over Bakhram Murtazaliev as proof the favourite can be beaten at world level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBakhram Murtazaliev was the bogeyman of the division and Josh beat him,\u201d he adds. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people writing me off and think I won\u2019t win this fight, but you just have to look at Josh\u2019s last fight. People wrote him off and said he wouldn\u2019t beat the bogeyman of the division and he won and did that. So it just showed you that anything can happen on any given night. And I believe that I\u2019ll go out and win on Saturday night and do it in a good style,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI\u2019m very, very confident that I will win this fight. I just want to give you a chance to create history and change my life and change what\u2019s for me in the future. Do you know what I mean? So I\u2019m prepared to the best of my ability and I\u2019m very confident that I can beat Josh Kelly on Saturday night.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ego will prove Josh Kelly\u2019s downfall in Jeddah on Saturday night, says Caoimhin Agyarko. The Belfast boxer challenges&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,244437,216445,85],"class_list":["post-820790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-caoimhin-agyarko","tag-josh-kelly","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}