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Josh Kelly Discusses New-Found Confidence, 'Killer' Vergil Ortiz, Testing Himself And Golf

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Josh Kelly talks to Tris Dixon about life in and out of the ring, and how he has changed his mindset from someone who had suffered with anxiety to someone who desperately wants to fight the best at 154lbs.

Kelly talks about the best fighters in his division, his relationship with trainer Adam Booth, his relationship with golf, and how he has matured in recent years.

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0:00.0

So Josh, I saw on a social media story that you want all the smoke at 154 now, right?

0:08.0

You want all the big guns.

0:11.0

I think I'm mature enough now, emotionally, spiritually, mentally, physically.

0:16.5

I feel like a few years back when I was getting all the hype, not a few years bad,

0:20.1

but when I was back to fighting at 147, I was stuck between weights and I was sort of battling with

0:25.6

a lot of mental things and I was not really mature.

0:29.7

I looked back at me fights and I look like, you're a kid, you're a real kid.

0:33.6

You know what I mean?

0:34.6

And now I'm like I'm a man and I took a lot of stuff on and I'm matured now mentally.

0:42.5

Like I said, emotionally, feel I'm in the perfect place.

0:46.0

Give me everything now.

0:47.1

I want all the big ones.

0:48.8

How have you developed mentally and emotionally?

0:51.7

Is it just a time thing and the sort of growing up thing or is it things that you've actively

0:55.7

done to make yourself a more complete human being and fighter?

1:00.7

I've been actively doing stuff.

1:04.7

Obviously brought some people in their team to do with the mind stuff and that.

1:16.7

Just then worked on more myself, emotionally learning about myself and just about life, really,

1:17.2

in general.

1:21.9

Like life tossed me some kerobiles recently, so I've got to deal with them, and the way I've dealt with them and the way I've dealt with things in the past when I was fighting was,

1:25.0

unlike anything why I would have dealt with,

1:28.2

what I would have dealt with them like before.

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