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Taking the leap into the pro game, Kelly turned over on November 1954 and has since build up experience against 24 opponents to date. Although not having it all his own way (6 losses), Kelly now looks to improve on his 17 win count after last facing on November 9th, 2018. Kelly's longest KO streak is 7 fights long out of his 24 career fights.
Starting as he means to go on, Kelly got off to an explosive start in his debut, defeating Jimmy Washington in 4 rounds and becoming the only person to have stopped Washington to date. Following on from his debut, Kelly continued his mostly successful career by fighting in a further 12 fights. In this time he fought Walter Irby, Walter Irby and Fred Terry to name just a few, fighting once in 1954 and 3 times in 1956 in this period.
Taking a knock to his career, Kelly fought and was defeated by Clarence Hinnant on November 17th, 1956 taking his record to 13-1-1. Kelly was beaten by Clarence Hinnant in the 6th round. The win came via KO in the 6th round.
Kelly lost to Clarence Hinnant in his next fight. Taking place on December 20th, 1956, Kelly's career record after this fight stood at 13-2-1. Kelly was stopped by Clarence Hinnant in the 6th round of a 8 round fight via KO. It was Kelly's 2nd stoppage defeat in his career. Kelly's winning streak went from 13 wins to 15 after he then defeated boxers including Joey White and Perry Wilson.
On June 29th, 1957, Kelly took on and was defeated by Eusebio Hernandez meaning his career tally went to 15-3-1. Kelly fought Eusebio Hernandez and was defeated via TKO in the 0 round bout. This was Kelly's 3rd stoppage defeat in his career which came in the 4th round. 3 wins followed where Kelly went on to fight Ernie Smith and Walter Irby amongst others, prolonging his win streak.
Taking a knock to his career, Kelly fought and was defeated by Eddie Thompson on March 13th, 1959 taking his record to 17-5-1. There was nothing more Kelly could have done on the night facing Thompson. Thompson put on a great performance to take the win over the 8 rounds.
On September 30th, 1959, Kelly took on and was defeated by Jesse Smith meaning his career tally went to 17-6-1 Left wondering where Kelly's career will go next, Smith became only the 4th man to stop Kelly in the 2nd round of a 0 round fight.