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.
Despite having fought just once in two years, Deontay Wilder says he’s open to fighting anybody. Wilder has been inactive following two bruising knockout defeats to Tyson Fury after battling to a draw in the first of their trilogy of fights. He has been in the ring just once since then, and for just one […]
Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez is working on securing his next opponent. Canelo traditionally fights just twice a year, on or close to the important holiday date of Cinco De Mayo and then again on or around September 16 for Mexican Independence Day. His last fight was an easier-than-expected points win over the reticent Jermell Charlo in […]
The much-mooted fight between Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn has got many people split when it comes to a prediction, and that includes Ricky Hatton. It is one of the most talked about fights in boxing right now, and not necessarily for all the right reasons. First scheduled for October 2022, it was pulled […]
Carl Froch has some advice for Conor Benn ahead of his proposed bout with Chris Eubank Jr – a continuation of a rivalry started by their fathers some 30 years ago. It was initially due to be fought back in October 2022 before Benn failed a drugs test and, since then, his biggest fight has […]
Deontay Wilder has identified one key difference between himse;f and rival Anthony Joshua ahead of their match-ups on the same card. Although these two big-hitting heavyweights have not yet fought each other, there has long been animosity between them. Both are former world champions who held belts at the same time for a number of […]
Devin Haney has been speaking about his boxing contemporaries ahead of his upcoming fight on December 9. He is to face off with Regis Prograis at the Chase Center, San Francisco as he attempts to add the WBC World Super Light title to his record and become a two-division champion. Until vacating recently, the American […]
Jarrell Miller has his eyes set on one man right now, and it isn’t his bitter rival Deontay Wilder. Miller is to fight on the same card as ‘The Bronze Bomber’ on December 23 when he takes on the challenge of Brit Daniel Dubois, who is on the comeback trail after his stoppage loss to […]
Though no action is yet scheduled for the ring, there is plenty of verbal back and forth between Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr. As soon as a potential fight date of February 3 at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium was announced for this British grudge match, Eubank Jr jumped on socials to issue a three-word […]
Carl Froch has heard rumours of Amir Khan returning to the ring and doesn’t think it’s a good idea. Khan hasn’t fought since his knock out loss to career-long British rival Kell Brook back in February of 2022. A year on it emerged he had failed a drugs test and was banned from all sports […]
Things are starting to happen at the top of the heavyweight division as a huge card approaches on December 23 featuring Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder – just not against one another. It plays out in Saudi Arabia and will see Wilder fight Joseph Parker, Daniel Dubois versus Jarrell Miller and Joshua versus Otto Wallin […]
Conor Benn has spoken about the upcoming undisputed fight between Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury. Benn has been fighting his battles outside of the ring of late, still embroiled in an increasingly bitter back and forth with the British Boxing Board of Control due to failed VADA doping tests last year. Whilst he awaits news […]
Retired fighter turned pundit and podcaster George Groves knows what it is like to change trainers before a huge fight – something Anthony Joshua is becoming known for. The former super-middleweight champion parted ways with his long-time coach Adam Booth on the day that his first fight with Carl Froch was announced back in the […]