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.
One of the most improved champions in recent years, Puerto Rican prizefighter Xander Zayas, has re-signed with long-standing, Las Vegas-based promotional company Top Rank. “We signed Xander at 16 and have watched him grow from a gifted teenager into a unified world champion,” said Top Rank President Todd duBoef. Indeed, Top Rank signed Zayas at […]
Hall-of-Fame boxer Timothy Bradley shot from the hip this week when talking about outside entities muscling their way into boxing to try and take over the entire sport. Zuffa Boxing has long been a concept-in-the-making from Dana White and other executives at UFC and the TKO Group, and they finally held their first event in […]
One of the biggest shockers for fight fans on Monday, April 27 was not the news that Anthony Joshua was returning to the ring on July 25, but that he was fighting the unheralded boxer Kristian Prenga, despite AJ’s promoter Eddie Hearn previously describing Deontay Wilder — a bigger-name opponent — as a warm-up. The […]
Polarizing streamer, Adin Ross, has attracted doubt over his latest comments regarding his Brand Risk promotional business in boxing. It all started with Brand Risk 001 which took place in Miami on January 1, 2024, but has seen Ross organize and promote 13 events so far that sees creators, and athletes, come together for fights […]
Tommy Fury appears interested in fighting Jake Paul once again. The fight already happened once, with the reality TV star-boxer, Fury, out-pointing Paul at the Diriyah Arena in Saudi Arabia three years ago. Paul has only grown in the sport since then, beating Nate Diaz, journeymen boxers, a bare-knuckle fighter, a near-60 Mike Tyson, and […]
David Benavidez could be on the cusp of a banner year. ‘El Monstro’, one of boxing’s pound-for-pound stars, leaves the light heavyweight division after only a handful of fights to challenge Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez for the champion’s unified cruiserweight titles in a match between two Mexican fighters atop a Cinco de Mayo card at the […]
Ryan Garcia confirmed he had a back-up plan if speculation surrounding a box office bout with Zuffa Boxing signing Conor Benn fails to materialize. Though the fighters are, currently, nowhere near the pound-for-pound conversation they have both built extraordinary name-value both in and outside of boxing. With Garcia, he is armed with followers across multiple […]
Even though surging British fighter Moses Itauma can no longer break Mike Tyson’s long-standing record as the youngest heavyweight to win a world championship in boxing, aged 20 years and four months in 1986, it appears the prospect-turned-contender still wants to speed-run a shot at the belt. That’s according to his trainer Ben Davison who […]
On Saturday, May 2, one of the biggest fights of the year takes place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, when Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez puts his WBA and WBO unified cruiserweight world championship belts on the line against rising pound-for-pound talent, David Benavidez, atop a Premier Boxing Champions card on Prime Video pay-per-view. The […]
Denzel Bentley wants a second crack at the WBO middleweight world boxing champion Janibek Alimkhanuly, vowing to knock the “cheat” out should they ever fight in a rematch. Bentley was supposed to be a cannon-fodder for Janibek as Alimkhanuly boxed with his usual poise early—southpaw jab, straight left, neat control—but Bentley refused the script, flipped it, and […]
As Conor McGregor and Dana White talk up the chances of a near-imminent Notorious return to the UFC Octagon, rumors spread regarding which numbered event the Irishman would headline, and against whom he’d fight. The 37-year-old hasn’t fought since a freak injury left him with a double leg break in the middle of his trilogy […]
Alan Chaves — remember the name! The Argentine southpaw who had, up until Saturday, April 25, fought exclusively in his homeland, made his Las Vegas debut on a Matchroom show and was sure to make it one to remember. Considering his penchant for powerful punching, it should, perhaps, have been no surprise that he’d secure […]