Kristan has been writing about music and sport for 20 years. He’s done cover features for the most influential music magazines on the planet, written books about the world’s top DJs and most celebrated clubs, interviewed footballing heroes and profiled Tour de France legends. He joined Boxing Social in the summer of 2023 as a news and feature writer.
A once-highly-rated middleweight champion who fought some of the biggest names in the sport has announced that he is back in training and plans to end his retirement by getting back to action this summer. American fighter Danny Jacobs debuted as a professional in 2007 but in May 2011 he was diagnosed with a malignant […]
After a few months of back and forth, it was recently announced that Vergil Ortiz is to fight Tim Tszyu and now Ortiz has broken his silence on the upcoming bout. Tszyu is of course coming off the back of a rather surprising upset loss against Sebastian Fundora. Fundora was a last-minute replacement when original […]
Jermaine Franklin is set to get back in the ring as he returns to action in his hometown. Franklin is well known to Brits having come to the UK twice in recent times. First up, he gave Dillian Whyte a tough night in London and forced the heavyweight contender to work hard over 12 rounds. […]
Matchroom and Boxxer have been embroiled in plenty of back and forth in recent times and now Matchroom’s CEO Frank Smith has stoked the feud once more with his latest response. There have been many issues between these two British promotional rivals – arguments over purse bids for Adam Azim and Dalton Smith as well […]
Following the announcement that Chris Billam-Smith will defend his world title against Richard Riakporhe, a new title fight has been added to the card. Billam-Smith vs. Richard Riakporhe is a battle for the WBO world cruiserweight championship that is set to take place at Selhurst Park, the home of Premier League side Crystal Palace, on […]
The relationship between Errol Spence Jr and his trainer Derrick James seems to have broken down as news has emerged that James has filed a lawsuit in pursuit of payments owed to him from the former welterweight world champion. James is still riding high off a huge weekend that saw one of his other charges, […]
Former opponents Terence Crawford and Shawn Porter have clashed during conversations with each other after Crawford made a certain claim about popularity. These two American welterweights have already settled their differences once and for all in the ring back in 2021 It was then that Crawford secured his ninth consecutive stoppage victory in a historic […]
Jarell Miller is back in action later in the year but ahead of that has been asked for his prediction as to what happens when Deontay Wilder and Zhilei Zhang face off in June. In this upcoming bout in Saudi Arabia, both Wilder and Zhang are aiming to bounce back from recent setbacks to keep […]
Oscar De La Hoya and Eddie Hearn have continued their ongoing feud in the aftermath of Devin Haney’s unexpected defeat to Ryan Garcia. Although there had been many widespread concerns about his well-being in a rather tumultuous and controversial build-up that saw Garcia behaving erratically, drinking beer, insulting Haney’s religion march more, ‘King Ry’ stunned […]
A former world champion who once beat British super middleweight talent James DeGale has announced his retirement from boxing. On Wednesday, the Osseo native Caleb Truax called time on his career and in a new video posted on social media declared his retirement from the ring. The one-time International Boxing Federation super middleweight World Champion, […]
Ahead of his return to the ring, Andy Ruiz has made his shock prediction for what might happen when Tyson Fury fights Oleksandr Usyk next month. After the best part of two years away from the sport, Ruiz is set to return on the undercard of Terence Crawford versus Israil Madrimov, which will be the […]
Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez has been fighting since his teenage years and now the decorated pound-for-pound star has named who he says is his favourite boxer of all time. Alvarez, now aged 33, is not only a multi-weight world champion but is also widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of his era. To his […]