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.
Manny Pacquiao suffered a setback in his hopes to fight in the Olympics yesterday but now his coach has named a shock potential opponent for his ring return. Legendary Filipino and multi-weight world champion Pacquiao had expressed his desire to fight at the Paris Olympics but it was announced recently that the upper age limit […]
Jake Paul and Tommy Fury fought in Saudi Arabia back on February 26th 2023 and now a long-mooted rematch has been mentioned once more by Paul who claims he has offered Fury 20 millions dollars for two more contests. The two rivals shared an intense build up to their first fight which eventually happened after […]
Daniel Dubois has been accused of quitting in fights before now and is struggling to shake off the label though his coach has said ‘we don’t give a damn.’ British heavyweight contender Daniel Dubois is long off a huge win which should have dispelled all talk of him being a quitter. It came on December […]
Former world champion Shawn Porter has been asked to predict how a fight between Floyd Mayweather and Tommy Hearns might have gone. Mayweather remained undefeated across his 50-fight career and won belts up and down the divisions as well as being involved in epic nights such as his showdown with Manny Pacquiao in 2015. He […]
Back in 2022, Jake Paul was involved in one of the biggest female fights of all time when undisputed world champion Katie Taylor and seven-division world champion Amanda Serrano came to blows and now he has spoken about the potential of a rematch. Taylor vs. Serrano at Madison Square Garden was the first women’s contest […]
It had been hoped that Canelo Alvarez and David Benavidez might face this year and though it is not up next, WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman has revealed his plans for the fight. This coming together of two Mexican fighters would be huge with Canelo the proven and long-established multi-division champion and Benavidez the younger fighter […]
Legendary Filipino and multi-weight world champion Manny Pacquiao had planned to fight at the Paris Olympics but has now suffered a major setback to his goal. Pacquiao retired in 2021 after a final fight against Yordenis Ugas saw him lose across 12 rounds in Las Vegas. That came almost two years after a great win […]
There could well be some big changes to the way Tyson Fury versus Oleksandr Usyk is scored with the WBC president stating that the fight could see five judges involved. This much anticipated clash has a rescheduled date of May 18, when the WBC and lineal heavyweight champion Fury and the WBA, WBO and IBF […]
There is one man who has previously fought Tyson Fury and inflicted a bad cut on him and he has now spoken out about it and how that affects the upcoming undisputed fight. ‘The Gypsy King’ delayed the first undisputed fight in 25 years when he got cut late in camp on February 2nd. The […]
Retired heavyweight contender David Price has given his view on how the fight between Anthony Joshua and Francis Ngannou might play out when the two face each other as part of Riyadh Season in Saudi Arabia next month. This will be Joshua’s fourth fight in 11 months. In 2023 he beat Jermaine Franklin, Robert Helenius […]
Conor Benn was expected to meet soon with the British Boxing Board Of Control with regard to getting back his license to fight in the UK and now his promoter Eddie Hearn has given another major update on the situation. Benn is coming off the back of a 12 round points win in Las Vegas […]
Saudi Arabia has very much become the centre of the boxing universe recently but former champion Carl Froch has claimed ‘there’s no prestige.’ Saudi Arabia has invested hugely in the sport of boxing over the last few years and has really ramped it up in the last 12 moths. The first big night was the […]