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.
Turki Alalshikh has almost singlehandedly changed the entire boxing landscape in the last few years and now the chair of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority has named three more huge fights that he hopes to be making soon. Saudi Arabia has very much become the centre of the boxing world in the last few years, […]
Ben Whittaker is well known for his showboating antics in the ring and while some fans and fellow boxers rate it, one form world champion has now come out and branded him ‘disrespectful.’ The flashy light heavyweight has quickly made his mark on the sport since turning pro after the Olympics. He is best known […]
Matchroom Boxing have successfully won a recent purse bid for their most recent new signing Jaron Ennis, and have now revealed which opponent the talented welterweight world champion will be fighting, and on what date. Ennis currently boasts a record of 31 wins and no losses and has knocked out 28 of his opponents to […]
Still riding high off his huge upset win this past weekend, Ryan Garcia has now given his opinion on who would win between his two former opponents Gervonta Davis and Devin Haney. Garcia’s stunning victory came at the Barclays Centre in Brooklyn after one of the wildest build-ups to a fight in recent memory. It […]
Despite coming off a loss, it seems as though Tim Tszyu has managed to line up a big fight for himself this summer on a huge card against Vergil Ortiz, although there is one big condition. Tszyu, who is rated as ESPN’s No. 2 junior middleweight, suffered a bad cut in round two after being […]
British heavyweight talent Frazer Clarke has cast his eye over the upcoming fight between Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk and made his prediction. This is one of the most mouthwatering fights of recent times. It finally pits the two best current heavyweights against one another and will result, for the first time in a quarter […]
Lawrence Okolie has been speaking about the differences he has experienced between his new trainer Joe Gallagher and his previous trainer Shane McGuigan. Okolie has also briefly worked with Sugar Hill, the man who guided Tyson Fury to some of his biggest wins, but announced in April that he was moving on and linking up […]
Sebastian Fundora is one of boxing’s most recently crowned champions but he has soon come under pressure from those in the sport about when he will fight next and has now been given a huge ultimatum by the WBO over Terence Crawford. Junior middleweight belt holder Fundora was a last-minute replacement opponent for Tim Tszyu […]
Eddie Hearn has lifted the lid on a rehydration request that he wanted put in place for Ryan Garcia ahead of his upset win over Devin Haney on Saturday. Garcia shocked the world by knocking down Haney three times on his way to a majority points decision win at the Barclays Centre this past weekend. […]
It has been almost two years since Andy Ruiz last fought but now the former world heavyweight champion is set to make a return to the sport on a massive card in August. Ruiz’s most famous night came in June 2019 when he shocked the world by beating Anthony Joshua for the unified world heavyweight […]
Former cruiserweight champion Tony Bellew has recalled the awful experiences he had leading up to a weigh-in here he nearly died even before he got to the ring. Bellew was always a big light heavyweight and often had a gruelling weight cut in the immediate run up to fights. His last fight at the weight […]
Deontay Wilder is back in action on June 1st against Zhilei Zhang and has now made a bold claim in the build up to it. Both Wilder and Zhang need to get back to winning ways in this fight if they are to keep their dreams of a world title fight alive. In their last […]