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.
Amongst all the talk of Tyson Fury’s current form, Barry McGuigan has revealed the one attribute that ‘worries’ him about the WBC and lineal heavyweight champion of the world. Some believe Fury is at a pivotal point in his career. He has plenty of standout wins including two knockouts and a draw against fearsome American […]
Paulie Malignaggi has been looking back over the year’s best fighters and has come up with a shortlist of three. It has been another busy year in the world of boxing with upsets, impressive knockouts, unlikely match-ups and surprise fight cards. Arguably the biggest of them all is still to come on December 23 in […]
Johnny Nelson has made a clear prediction for what will happen when Anthony Joshua steps into the ring with Otto Wallin on December 23. This comes not long after Nelson warned that Joshua could be ‘done within a year’ after it emerged he has changed trainers once more for this fight and will have Ben […]
Joseph Parker has one of the biggest fights of his career coming up, but his coach thinks he has the ‘key’ to victory. Parker has never shied from a top level challenge. He became a world champion with a narrow points win over Andy Ruiz Jr back in 2016 and then took on Anthony Joshua […]
Ricky Hatton is well placed to weigh in on who was the better fighter between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. Manchester hero Hatton moved up a weight and went to Las Vegas with his famously passionate army of fans to fight welterweight ruler Mayweather Jr in December 2007, the same year he broke several of […]
Eddie Hearn’s thoughts have changed regarding the ill-fated Conor Benn versus Chris Eubank Jr fight, having previously been convinced it would make it over the line. The Matchroom promoter has been talking up this fight with real confidence throughout November. He had spoken of January and Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as a potential date and venue, […]
It might be the hardest of sports, but boxing only lasts 12 rounds. Mental health battles, however, have no final bell. Or so thought Jordan Gill on June 30th as he sat slumped in a field after sinking a litre of vodka. It was his first-ever taste of alcohol and, he was hoping, his last. […]
Paulie Malignaggi has not been impressed with Ryan Garcia. Super lightweight contender Garcia came back last weekend with a knockout win over Oscar Duarte Jurado, his first contest since losing to a killer body-shot from Gervonta Davis in April of this year. Before then, Garcia had been building good momentum with wins over the likes […]
Pundits, fans and his own father have claimed Tyson Fury is ‘declining’ and now his trainer has responded. This recent talk came off the back of Fury’s last performance against Francis Ngannou. Until then, many viewed him as the best heavyweight on the planet and a pound-for-pound contender. He had brushed aside all challenges from […]
Carl Froch isn’t too happy that a retired boxing legend has said he would love to have fought him and knocked him out. Froch is a proud man with a famous granite chin who only lost to the very best in Andre Ward and Mikkel Kessler, which he later avenged. He became super middleweight champion […]
Amir Khan only sees the historic undisputed bout between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk going one way. This fight has been a long time in the making. Fury has held the WBC and Lineal titles for several years now, while Usyk has been in possession of the WBA, WBO and IBF belts ever since dethroning […]
Daniel Dubois has a huge test coming up against Jarrell Miller and his former coach has some words of wisdom for him. This will be Dubois’ first fight back after losing to Oleksandr Usyk during his maiden tilt at a world title back in August in Poland. Despite knocking Usyk down with what was ruled […]