Kelly won the New South Wales light-heavyweight title in 1996, before winning the
Australian Light Heavyweight title the following year and the
IBF Pan Pacific light heavyweight title (against
Anthony Bigeni) in 1999. he defended them titles against
Sam Soliman before relinquished his Australian titles to fight in USA, beating Billy Lewis for the
IBF Inter-Continental light heavyweight title in 2000. Kelly then moved to be trained by former world champion,
Jeff Fenech. His biggest fight was against
Roy Jones Jr. for the
WBC,
WBA,
IBF,
IBO, WBF and IBA light heavyweight World titles in 2002. Kelly was outclassed by Jones, being knocked out in the seventh round. His final fight was against
David Haye in 2005 which he lost by TKO in the 2nd round. ==Professional boxing record==