Alan Dawson is Boxing Social's editor. He is also a columnist for Uncrowned at Yahoo Sports, and the founder-moderator of Boxing Twitter — a 20,000-strong community on X. A 17-year sports media veteran, Alan has enjoyed extensive stints at Business Insider as a correspondent, BT Sport as digital editor, and Give Me Sport as combat sports editor. He is a 2-time Sports Journalist of the Year finalist and has been honored six times by the Boxing Writers Association of America. Alan grew up near London but is based in Nevada with his young family. Outside boxing he plays 8-handicap golf, hikes, and rides his ebike through the Sierra mountain trails.
Manny Pacquiao seems to believe Floyd Mayweather’s insistence that their September match-up is an exhibition, rather than a real fight, is little more than shenanigans. According to a statement Netflix, the broadcast partner for the event, the bout would take place at The Sphere in Las Vegas and, as it was a fully sanctioned fist-fight, […]
Terence Crawford spared no prisoners when responding to Ryan Garcia’s latest comments. The welterweight fighter, who won the WBC boxing world championship with a mature and disciplined display against Mario Barrios in February, recently appraised ‘Bud’s career as a whole by remarking he “left more of his legacy on the table.” A five-weight world champion, […]
Alycia Baumgardner heightened ongoing hostilities with her women’s boxing superstar rival, Caroline Dubois, ahead of the Brit’s unification fight Sunday, April 5 against Terri Harper. Baumgardner knows Harper well, of course, having fought her in her 12th pro fight in 2021 — a fourth-round knockout win in Sheffield, England, which saw her pick up the […]
The ongoing drama surrounding the Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao rematch is the gift that keeps on taking, as the difference in messaging appears so vast that the fight seems likelier to fail, than bear fruit. But it’s not the only huge headline we ran on Boxing Social, as we also detailed how a prospective […]
Surging British prospect-come-contender Moses Itauma is good enough to take Anthony Joshua down if they fought next. That’s according to Hall-of-Fame fighter, Carl Froch, who picked AJ out of all “of the heavyweight ex-champs” that would provide Itauma with the best possible opponent “to look good against,” when speaking to NewBettingSites.uk. “I think AJ’s not […]
A number big-name fighters, and other stories, have dominated the boxing landscape over the last 24 hours — from Oleksandr Usyk talking about a back-up plan for the Rico Verhoeven fight, to the drama between a Brazilian debutant and the British Boxing Board of Control, to the latest in the prospective rematch between Floyd Mayweather […]
Eyebrows were raised when news first broke that Oleksandr Usyk was set to fight kickboxing icon Rico Verhoeven at the Pyramids of Giza, however, according to a new report, the bout could be moved from Egypt. A pound-for-pound staple for a decade because of his ruthless dominance of the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, with statement […]
There was one fight Terence Crawford was seemingly prepared to consider before he announced his retirement from boxing. The American fighter removed his gloves for the final time of his career in 2025 when he outfoxed Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez over 12 rounds, arguably the finest performance of his career even including the all-time great thrashing […]
Tim Tszyu reacted to Sebastian Fundora’s brutal stoppage win over Keith Thurman by offering a three-word statement that sums up what it’s really like boxing ‘The Towering Inferno’. The 28-year-old returned to the ring March 28 with a sixth-round technical knockout of Thurman, in a fight in which the veteran never found a rhythm, and […]
Deontay Wilder may be five years removed from the third installment of his all-time great heavyweight trilogy with Tyson Fury, but the sequence of fights, and the results, have left him with post-traumatic stress disorder. That’s according to his Saturday opponent Derek Chisora, a British veteran who fights Wilder atop a MF Pro and Queensberry […]
In the latest boxing news today, Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero fired back at Devin Haney amid apparently failed negotiations for a welterweight unification fight, two big bouts got otherwise booked with another seemingly on the way, and Sebastian Fundora declares himself the No.1 fighter in the stacked super welterweight division. Romero Responds to Haney Negotiations were […]
It didn’t take long for MP Promotions executive Jas Mathur to respond on social media to Floyd Mayweather’s confusing comments over the weekend in Las Vegas that his rematch with Manny Pacquiao is little more than a boxing exhibition. It is a far cry from official wording from a statement Netflix sent to Boxing Social […]