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.
Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia continued to be involved in a heated build-up to their fight on April 20 and now the world champion has claimed in a new face off that ‘King Ry’ is a quitter and that ‘the world watched him take a knee.’ Garcia, who will be the the super-lightweight world title […]
One of the former coaches of Anthony Joshua has broken down what he thinks might happen should the Brit fight Tyson Fury. Joshua is resurgent right now and his profile is as high as ever after a fantastic last 11 months. He has beaten Jermain Franklin and Robert Helenius on points, then knocked out Otto […]
Turki Alalshikh, the Chair of the General Entertainment Authority in Saudi Arabia, has announced that he has plans for a ‘huge’ boxing event on UK shores at Wembley Stadium at the end of summer this year. Alalshikh has very much transformed the boxing landscape in the last couple of years. His vast financial reveres have […]
Tony Bellew has warned old friend and fellow former world champion Carl Froch that should they fight ‘he wouldn’t see the final bell.’ Bellew is a popular DAZN pundit who retired after losing to undisputed cruiserweight Oleksandr Usyk, but before that he stepped up to heavyweight and twice defeated David Haye on huge Sky Pay-Per-View […]
Following his return to the ring back in February, Vergil Ortiz Jr. quickly got to work in knocking out Fredrick Lawson and now plans have been revealed for his next fight. Ortiz was a decorated amateur and seven-time national champion who turned pro and was named 2019 The Ring magazine Prospect of the Year. He […]
With Anthony Joshua back in good form, Carl Froch has been considering what might happen should he get a third fight with Oleksandr Usyk. Joshua fought the Ukraine southpaw twice in back to back fights in 2021 and 2022. Though he boxed well and showed things he hadn’t in the ring before, he lost both […]
Tyson Fury is in camp ahead of the biggest fight of his career but has taken a moment to name who he thinks is the future of the heavyweight division. Fury’s next outing is abasing Oleksandr Usyk on May 18 out in Saudi Arabia. It is a historic contest and first undisputed fight for 25 […]
Tim Tszyu has had to deal with a last-minute replacement opponent and now a huge size difference has revealed itself in his first face-off with Sebastian Fundora ahead of their fight at the T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas. Tszyu, who has won all 24 of his fights, was set to face ex-welterweight world champion Keith Thurman, […]
Lawrence Okolie recently announced his move up in weight and has now vowed he will do plenty of damage in his first fight. Okolie has been out of the ring since he lost his world title to Chirs Billam-Smith via a points decision in May in Bournemouth last year. He is the former British, Commonwealth, […]
Eddie Hearn has revealed there could be a shock twist in the much anticipated 5 v 5 card having said ‘we can add a wildcard.’ This event is scheduled for June and will see five fights from Hearn’s Matchroom stable go up against five fighters from Frank Warren’s Queensberry Promotions. The announcement regarding which weight […]
It seems as though Carl Froch was not too impressed with Joe Joyce’s comeback fight and has now said ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.’ Joyce was returning for the first time since bruising back-to-back losses last year to Chinese heavyweight Zhilei Zhang who knocked him out in both fights, and even quicker […]
Former world champion turned boxing pundit Paulie Malignaggi has doubted whether the videos Mike Tyson has shared of himself in training for his fight with Jake Paul are real. ‘Iron Mike’ is gearing up to face Jake Paul in a summer boxing showdown and has recently issued a stern warning to his adversary in recent […]