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.
Prominent Japanese fighters, Naoya Inoue and Junto Nakatani, appear set to collide in a champion vs champion spectacle — arguably the biggest in their region for years — in May. According to Kyodo News, Inoue announced Tuesday that the fight is confirmed. Speaking at an awards ceremony in Tokyo, he said he’s “going head-to-head with […]
Polarizing prizefighter Ryan Garcia challenges Mario Barrios for the WBC welterweight boxing championship on Saturday, Feb. 21 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas atop a Golden Boy Promotions and TBG Promotions card. According to him, it’ll be the last he does so under an Oscar de la Hoya-organized banner. Following this fight, he says, […]
Leigh Wood and Josh Warrington throw hands for a second time on Saturday, Feb. 21 at the Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham, two and a half years on from their modern British boxing classic. In their first bout, Wood put his WBA featherweight championship on the line against Warrington in Sheffield and came-from-behind to force a […]
The proposed exhibition involving Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather reportedly has a fresh update as, according to Ring Magazine, the match-up could land in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Apr. 25. An exhibition involving two of the sport’s most successful pay-per-view fighters of all time was first proposed in September 2025 by CSI Sports […]
Arslanbek Makhmudov’s dreams come true on Apr. 11 when he fights Tyson Fury at one of England’s premier soccer venues, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, but warns the more experienced, accomplished, and famous fighter that he’s not arriving in the country to simply make up the numbers. Fury has not fought since back-to-back defeats to […]
Tyson Fury isn’t breaking retirement just for a standalone event against Arslanbek Makhmudov on Apr. 11 in London, as promoter Frank Warren is eyeing two prospective fights for the brobdingnagian British boxer-puncher — and both are outside his career-long rivalry with Anthony Joshua. Fury’s associate Spencer Brown, the CEO of Goldstar Promotions, said neither Fury […]
Shortly after Tyson Fury took to the stage to promote his comeback against Arslanbek Makhmudov at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on Apr. 11, he spoke to The Stomping Ground backstage and gave a brief statement on Deontay Wilder’s recent comments about him. In the years since their historic trilogy, which Fury prevailed with […]
Dana White spared no prisoners when talking to reporters about boxing‘s prominent figures shortly after Zuffa Boxing 03 finished Feb. 15 at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas. Though TKO Group’s boxing organization, Zuffa, has been influenced by Nick Khan, with fighters from Tom Loeffler’s 360 Promotions, and with matchmaking nous from Rian Scalia and […]
Efe Ajagba returned to winning ways Sunday, Feb. 15 atop a Zuffa Boxing card at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas, as he stopped Charles Martin in the fourth round. The 31-year-old was arguably unfortunate to not have left the ANB Arena in Riyadh last year with the dub as judges scored his Martin Bakole […]
Two-weight UFC champion Islam Makhachev is openly wondering how dominant Anthony Joshua could be if he transitioned from boxing and developed one facet of mixed martial arts. Joshua is a two-time former unified heavyweight boxing champion with significant wins over Wladimir Klitschko, Joseph Parker, and Alexander Povetkin. He has talked about other forms of combat […]
Keyshawn Davis may have only fought once at super lightweight since leaving the 135-pound division as its WBO champion, but if he were to ever match-up with Devin Haney, there’d be only one clear winner. That’s according to Timothy Bradley, who said on his official YouTube channel this week that it’s all about skills. And, […]
Popular and controversial streamer Sneako set the influencer boxing scene ablaze Friday when he posted “private and confidential” terms from Misfits Boxing promoter Mams Taylor, extending an apparent fight offer to the internet personality for a fight against Andrew Tate in the US or UAE. For Sneako’s participation in the bout, which would take place […]