Who will Josh Kelly 🇬🇧 fight next?
Short answer
Most likely next opponent: Jaron Ennis🇺🇸 (70%, reported). Next: Bakhram Murtazaliev🇷🇺 (5%).
Confidence: Medium · Updated (UAE time)
Forecast: likely next opponents NextSmash estimate
Each percentage is the estimated chance of being Josh Kelly's next opponent. These are not chances of winning.
- 70%chance next opponentJosh Kelly beat Caoimhín Agyarko on 25 Jul 2026 (UD). Kelly has agreed terms for a unification. No date or venue yet.December 2026 or January 2027 (reported)
- 5%chance next opponentMurtazaliev wants a rematch with Kelly.Later
Field / other: 25%. This covers everyone not listed above.
- Last fight
- Win vs Caoimhín Agyarko · UD · 25 Jul 2026
- Confidence
- Medium (High = officially booked · Medium = credible report, sanctioning-body order, talks or a boxer's own claim · Low = model only)
- Boxing factors
- Mandatory challengers, vacated belts, rematch clauses, Riyadh Season / The Ring events, promoter and network ties, and crossover fights
- Last updated
- (UAE time)
Rankings note: belts are labelled by the body that awards them (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO or The Ring). The order of boxers on these pages is a NextSmash list, not an official ranking.
Josh Kelly: frequently asked questions
When is Josh Kelly's next fight?
No fight is officially booked as of 2 Oct 2026. The leading option is Jaron Ennis (December 2026 or January 2027 (reported)).
Who did Josh Kelly fight last?
Josh Kelly beat Caoimhín Agyarko on 25 Jul 2026 (UD). Source: Wikipedia.
Who is Josh Kelly likely to fight next?
NextSmash estimate of the next opponent: Jaron Ennis (70%), Bakhram Murtazaliev (5%), field / other 25%. These are chances of being the next opponent, not chances of winning. Updated 2 Oct 2026.
What is Josh Kelly's record?
19–1–1 (wins–losses–draws, no-contests in brackets) after the fight on 25 Jul 2026, as listed on Wikipedia.
What titles does Josh Kelly hold?
IBF super welterweight. Each belt is named with the body that awards it.
Other super welterweight boxers
- Sebastian Fundora🇺🇸 · WBC super welterweight · next: Ermal Hadribeaj Booked
- Jaron Ennis🇺🇸 · WBA super welterweight · next: Josh Kelly 70%
- Vergil Ortiz Jr.🇺🇸 · WBC interim super welterweight · next: Keith Thurman 30%
- Tim Tszyu🇦🇺 · No world title listed · next: Erislandy Lara 70%
- Bakhram Murtazaliev🇷🇺 · No world title listed · next: Josh Kelly 5%
- Xander Zayas🇵🇷 · No world title listed · next: Jaron Ennis 4%
More: Super Welterweight belts and next fights · All boxing
Sources
- Wikipedia: Josh Kelly (boxer) · record and last fight (revision 1366131994)
- BoxingNews24: Jaron Ennis vs Josh Kelly targets December or January
- boxingnews.com: Josh Kelly agrees terms for Jaron Ennis unification
- The Ring: Murtazaliev gearing up for return, awaits Kelly rematch
- Wikipedia: List of current world boxing champions (revision of 1 Oct 2026) · 1 Oct 2026
Percentages are NextSmash estimates from the reports and factors above, not facts and not betting advice. Records and last fights come from Wikipedia. We do not use BoxRec data. Anything we could not verify is left out.