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.
Jermaine Franklin is well aware the magnitude of the task he faces having to fight Britain’s fast-rising contender Moses Itauma on March 28 at the Co-op Live Arena in Manchester, England, atop a Queensberry Promotions card on DAZN. The American backs himself to triumph nonetheless, having identified what he seemingly regards as a weakness within […]
Congressman Joe Courtney, a 20-year politician, outlined the anti-Zuffa Boxing case in legal terms on Tuesday, March 25 ahead of a vote that passed a Dana White-backed bill called The Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act through the House of Representatives, and to the U.S. Senate, where it must also pass before becoming law. The […]
Knockout puncher Parker Porter, a former UFC fighter ripping through Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship’s heavyweight division, says the sport of bare knuckle is closer to boxing than to mixed martial arts. Bare-knuckle has enjoyed a new wave of popularity following its sanctioning in Wyoming in 2018, ahead of subsequent legalizations in other states, too. BKFC […]
The winners of the separate, upcoming heavyweight fights between Moses Itauma and Jermaine Franklin, together with Richard Torrez Jr. and Frank Sanchez, appear on a collision course with one another, before they ultimately proceed to challenge for a version of the boxing world championship. That’s according to manager Francis Warren, who represents Itauma — the […]
Eddie Hearn appears set to show his mouth can cash a check his ass can cash as the Matchroom chairman sent a message to his Zuffa Boxing rival promoter Dana White during a training clip in which the 6-foot-5 boxing lifer knocks the speed-bag around. The two execs have been trashing one another in the […]
Oleksandr Usyk’s final few fights could include a surprise opponent. That’s according to the Ukraine heavyweight king’s latest comments, in which he seemed willing to move on from a trilogy bout with Tyson Fury, providing ‘The Gypsy King’s own comeback against Arslanbek Makhmudov and a Battle of Britain versus Anthony Joshua. The unified world boxing […]
Francis Ngannou seemingly thinks completely differently about boxing Jake Paul now as he did before. There was a recent time in which the former UFC heavyweight champion, Ngannou, appeared to bristle at the mere notion of being speculatively linked with a Paul fight — official, crossover, or otherwise. Paul, via Most Valuable Promotions, approached Ngannou […]
It appears boxing will be permitted to move into a sport with multiple systems, as the House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to pass the Zuffa Boxing-backed Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act. It thus means the creation of UBOs — that is, Unified Boxing Organization — could go ahead, that the government is backing […]
Golden Boy Promotions and DAZN have signed an extension to their broadcast arrangement, and it will have immediate ramifications for Vergil Ortiz’s situation. The super welterweight and broader pound-for-pound boxing contender Ortiz’s stock had arguably never been higher than when he obliterated Erickson Lubin by way of first-round knockout to get the new year off […]
Ryan Garcia called out Terence Crawford in a new, no-holds-barred rant on X. Crawford retired from boxing unbeaten with a record of 42-0, having beaten Errol Spence Jr in one of the more meaningful welterweight clashes in the modern era, and Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez in another statement-making win, calling the curtain on his career late, […]
The International Boxing Federation (IBF), one of boxing‘s four major alphabet sanctioning bodies, has stripped Jai Opetaia, 30, of his championship status in another escalation in the ongoing power battle between the sport’s establishment and the upstart fight firm Zuffa Boxing. The decision means Opetaia loses the IBF cruiserweight championship not in the ring — […]
Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua continue to dance around a fight with one another. For Fury, it remains the “biggest” bout that boxing can book, who talked to Sky Sports at a time in which Joshua is firmly in a training camp, returning to the gym to seemingly get fighting fit, for the first time […]