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.
Talks are reportedly at an “advanced stage” for the Battle of Britain box office bout between career-long rivals Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury. The heavyweight fighters have long been linked with one another — arguably for well over a decade, considering their size, closeness in age, and shared nationality. However, like natural rivals Floyd Mayweather […]
Oscar de la Hoya admitted frustrations at how the Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act hearing in front of the Senate played out this week. Advocates of the Revival Act say it provides greater protections and options for fighters, while critics claim it’s little more than a power grab with parties like Zuffa Boxing benefitting […]
Ryan Garcia has expressed interest in fighting Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis in a rematch. It comes at a time when the Golden Boy Promotions welterweight is in demand after he bested Mario Barrios earlier in the year with a mature performance to wrest the welterweight world title from El Azteca’s waist in style. The 27-year-old shows […]
“He got the better of me.” — Fabio Wardley & Daniel Dubois describe sparring one another years before big heavyweight bout Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois fight in an all-British banger for the WBO heavyweight world title at the Co-op Live Arena in Manchester atop a Queensberry Promotions card on DAZN from May 9. It’s […]
The best fighter in the world is American. For many, the picks are obvious. And both of the consensus top two are foreign. There’s Oleksandr Usyk, the two-weight champion who unified cruiserweight and heavyweight, while beating a who’s who of top tier fighters across both divisions. Usyk, a Ukraine king, takes a rare novelty bout […]
Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis could be returning to a boxing ring soon. The lightweight fighter hasn’t been seen since escaping with a fortuitous draw against Lamont Roach Jr., and though there was a mandated rematch, he swerved the do-over to instead box Jake Paul in a wild crossover bout. Most Valuable Promotions canned the event, though, […]
Armando Resendiz appears ready to give Jaime Munguia the same treatment he gave Caleb Plant, last time he felt like the underdog, and ready to scrap against the favored and bigger-name boxer. Resendiz and Munguia trade blows in an all-Mexican shootout May 2 on the undercard of David Benavidez’s challenge for Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez’s unified […]
Another world champion fighter, Dalton Smith, has re-upped with Matchroom as the company chairman, Eddie Hearn, continues to remedy the “mistake” he says he made which led to the loss of Conor Benn to promotional rival, Zuffa Boxing. The Dana White-backed, TKO Group-owned, upstart fight firm has made reasonable additions to its roster through Jai […]
It’s easy in sport, particularly boxing, to pick the favorite. Especially when that favorite is a pound-for-pound sensation, a considerable puncher among their weight class, and, arguably, at the peak of their powers. That’s the position Naoya Inoue finds himself a little more than a week away from arguably the toughest test of his pro […]
Teofimo Lopez’s next fight could be a shot at the vacant IBF world title, with reports from Ring Magazine and Boxing Scene both indicating that the 28-year-old fighter will be the fighter who benefits most from Richardson Hitchins relinquishing the strap. Scheduled for a world title defense against Oscar Duarte in February, the American fighter […]
One of the best bouts that boxing can book, according to Matchroom chairman, Eddie Hearn, is one that involves arguably his biggest US-facing star, Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez, and fellow pound-for-pound sensation, Naoya Inoue. Both fighters are widely regarded by consensus to be the best in the sport, regardless of weight class, with Rodriguez dominating the […]
The International Boxing Federation has issued a statement to bring clarity to its evolving super lightweight world title status following its champion, Richardson Hitchins, vacating the belt. Hitchins is one of Zuffa Boxing’s latest acquisitions, following other Keith Connolly-managed fighters like Edgar Berlanga and Conor Benn to the upstart, Las Vegas-based, fight firm. Another Zuffa […]