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.
Anthony Joshua was in no mood for pleasantries following his knockout of Francis Ngannou and issued a foul mouthed rant to Tyson Fury. Joshua dispatched Ngannou in mightily impressive fashion on Friday night. The former two-time world champion wasted little time in getting down to business and knocked the former UFC heavyweight champion down twice. […]
Ryan Garcia has issued a warning to any fighters thinking about stepping into the ring and claimed that ‘it will only get worse’. Garcia’s comments come in the midst of plenty of his own dramas. He is budding up to a fight with Devin Haney on April 20 that will see him challenge for a […]
Carl Froch has issued his verdict on Francis Ngannou’s conclusive loss to Anthony Joshua this past weekend. Some people expected Ngannou to push Joshua hard in their 10-round contest. Plenty even thought that the former UFC champion and man who has recorded the hardest punch on the planet, might be able to knock Joshua out. […]
Just hours after they fought for the first time on the undercard of Anthony Joshua versus Francis Ngannou, there has now been a big update on a potential rematch between Zhilei Zhang and Joseph Parker. Zhang started the fight well and landed cleanly on Parker, knocking him down twice in the early rounds. But Parker […]
News that Mike Tyson would be fighting Jake Paul has got many people talking and Eddie Hearn is someone who is unhappy with the contest and has now branded it ‘sad.’ At 58, Tyson now focuses on his various business ventures having been retried from competitive boxing for many years. While he did engage in […]
Carl Froch continues to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the cut that caused Tyson Fury to postpone his fight with Oleksandr Usyk and has once again branded it ‘convenient.’ Fury was a matter of days away from the historic undisputed fight in February when the cut was sustained. It came late on in camp […]
Dillian Whyte is back on the scene and has now been giving his prediction for the fight between Anthony Joshua and Francis Ngannou. Whyte has of course twice fought Joshua himself – once in the amateurs many years ago which Whyte take the win, and then that was reversed in the professional ranks in a […]
After weeks of speculation it seems as though Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez is on the verge of officially announcing his next fight with Jaime Munguia and now the purse has been revealed. ‘Canelo’ has been involved in quite the saga this year as he attempted to lock in his next opponent for his traditional Cinco De […]
News broke yesterday that shocked the boxing world and now Mike Tyson has explained why he has decided to fight Jake Paul this summer. Tyson is a now 58-year-old and long-retired fighter with a number of business interests. He did have an exhibition match against Roy Jones Jr, on which Jake Paul competed on, but […]
Dillian Whyte has spoken for the first time since he was passed as clear to fight again and has revealed that he is making a surprise return to the ring next week. Whyte failed a drug test in the final days leading up to his much-anticipated rematch with Anthony Joshua back in August. It was […]
Carl Froch is never afraid to give a bold prediction and now he has done just that for when it comes to what he thinks Francis Ngannou will do against Anthony Joshua. These two big hitters meet across 10 rounds. It is only former UFC champion Ngannou’s second fight following his debut against Tyson Fury […]
Ryan Garcia has his own huge fight night coming up but has first spared a moment to assess Anthony Joshua versus Francis Ngannou and claim that ‘it is hard to go against Ngannou.’ Garcia has got many people concerned about his mental state in the last couple of weeks given his rather erratic antics in […]