{"id":220047,"date":"2025-10-23T10:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220047\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:27:07","slug":"bakhram-murtazaliev-josh-kelly-need-to-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220047\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakhram Murtazaliev, Josh Kelly need to fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>tokonThu Oct 23, 2025, 9:31 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>The main problem is noone is interested in the fight so the &#8220;promoters&#8221; can&#8217;t find anyone to foot the bill. The proposed split isn&#8217;t particularly unfair as Kelly doesn&#8217;t deserve a title shot but him and Booth almost certainly overestimates his worth.<\/p>\n<p>CoverdaleThu Oct 23, 2025, 7:00 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>This is where the Old Guard structure of boxing is shown to be most flawed. It shouldn&#8217;t be this difficult to get one of the top guys in the sport&#8217;s hottest division into the ring.<\/p>\n<p>SteveMThu Oct 23, 2025, 6:49 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Kathy Duva is likely at fault here &#8211; she has zero leverage &#8211; so she should forgo any cut she&#8217;s hoping to make and pass that money to Kelly who I&#8217;d have as a 10\/1 underdog &#8211; so he needs some decent compensation for what could be a career ending beating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"tokonThu Oct 23, 2025, 9:31 AM UTC The main problem is noone is interested in the fight so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[15363,2560,94046,15364,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-220047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-bakhram-murtazaliev","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-boxingscene-today","11":"tag-josh-kelly","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}