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.
Following the news that the undisputed fight between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk has been postponed, it has been suggested that Fury should retire and now Eddie Hearn has responded to that idea. Fury and Usyk were set to fight for all four major world titles on February 17, the first time there has been […]
Like many boxing fans, Roy Jones Jr would love to see Devin Haney take on Gervonta Davis and now he has mapped out a way he thinks it could be made. Both of these young stars are unbeaten. Haney has become an undisputed world champion at lightweight and he is currently the WBC super-lightweight title […]
Shakur Stevenson announced his retirement last week but is still happy to trash talk current fighters including Campbell Hatton, with Stevnson stating his father Ricky Hatton would ‘throw in the towel’ were the two to meet in the ring. Stevenson is a superb boxing talent who quickly established himself after turning pro. He has held […]
Conor Benn continues to push hard to get his career back on track and has now announced his latest five-man hit list. Benn returned to the ring this weekend for only the second time in 16 months following the failing of a doping test back in October 2023. He took out ‘Pistol’ Pete Dobson in […]
Chris Eubank Sr has always had plenty to say about the ongoing saga surrounding his son Chris Jr’s on-off fight with generational rival Conor Benn and has now claimed he could get the suspended fighter a licence because he ‘[knows] the boss.’ After their first proposed fight was canned late in the day when Benn […]
Both Vasyl Lomachenko and George Kambosos Jr will be looking to get back to the top of the sport when the meet in the ring on May 12. Their lightweight contest will be for the vacant IBF belt in Australia, and it is one that Kambosos has previously owned. He had had a brief spell […]
Tyson Fury will not be fighting anyone for a while but that didn’t stop him threatening to knock out the teeth of Oleksandr Usyk’s manager. With a little over two weeks to go to the much-awaited undisputed fight on February 17, Fury suffered a cut in sparring which means it has had to be postponed. […]
David Haye has always had a fractious relationship with Tyson Fury and, in the wake of this weekend’s postponement of the undisputed fight, he has now spoken about what it is like to be cut in the build-up to a big contest. News broke on Friday that Fury had been cut during sparring. The sizable […]
Filip Hrgovic has been given a list of six possible opponents to face on the undercard of Anthony Joshua’s fight with Francis Ngannou on March 8. On Friday night, news broke that Tyson Fury was pulling out of the undisputed fight with Oleksandr Usyk on February 17th because of a cut received in sparring. For […]
Gervonta Davis has very much dismissed fighting Conor Benn as an easy night’s work. Benn fought this past weekend out in Las Vegas as he works to try and get back into contention for some of the biggest fights in his division. He beat Pete Dobson over 12 rounds – the first time he has […]
Former super middleweight champion turned respected pundit and podcaster George Groves has mused about what would have happened if his old rival Carl Froch had ever have taken on Joe Calzaghe. Froch and Groves had a rivalry that ignited British boxing. Their back-to-back fights in 2013 and 2014 involved the first sell out of Wembley […]
Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney are currently negotiating for a big fight and ‘King Ry’ has already come on strong with some trash talk that he has aimed at his rival’s father. This fight is one of the most talked about right now. Both men have called it on and then called it off in […]