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.
Shocks from Tyson Fury’s narrow split decision win over Francis Ngannou are still reverberating around the combat world and now one former heavyweight legend has told Fury he should retire and that he was made to ‘look bad.’ Ngannou turned in a performance no one expected across 10 competitive rounds in Riyadh on Saturday night. […]
Since Zhilei Zhang has battered his way to the top of the heavyweight division, he wants to face the best in the world. And the Chinese southpaw says he will end Anthony Joshua’s career should the two ever meet in the ring – but he feels the Brit’s team will stand in the way. Zhang […]
Retired British heavyweight, David Price, has made his prediction for a potential fight between Anthony Joshua and Francis Ngannou. This is a fight that has suddenly got people interested after former MMA fighter turned boxing debutant Ngannou managed to turn in a hugely impressive performance against WBC champion Tyson Fury in Riyadh. Despite securing a […]
Eddie Hearn thinks he saw enough in Tyson Fury’s split decision win against Francis Ngannou at the weekend to suggest he the world heavyweight champion is ‘done.’ Fury himself admits that it wasn’t a ‘vintage’ performance in the fight with the former UFC champion. He came in at a career heaviest and never got into […]
Carl Frampton has predicted what he thinks would happen in a fantasy fight between a prime Mike Tyson and a prime Lennox Lewis. This fight has already happened, of course, back in June of 2002 when Lewis was the defending WBC, IBF, IBO, and The Ring champion and Tyson was the former undisputed champion. The […]
Oleksandr Usyk has looked impervious in just about every fight he has had across two weight divisions as a professional, though David Haye’s trainer, Adam Booth, believes he would have been a perfect match-up for his man. Olympic medalist Usyk turned professional and very quickly became an undisputed four-belt cruiserweight champion. He then moved up […]
Former world champion Amir Khan has given his prediction as to what would happen had Floyd Mayweather ever have fought current pound-for-pound superstar Terrence Crawford. Khan chased a fight with undefeated and multiweight world champion Mayweather for many years, though never managed to get him in the ring. He did fight the current unified welterweight […]
Francis Ngannou has given his view on the comments made about his pad work during an open workout in the lead-up to his fight with Tyson Fury. Despite being a former MMA heavyweight champion, Ngannou has been given very little chance in this weekend’s fight with lineal and WBC boxing champion Fury in Riyadh. The […]
He has been retired for a few years but Manny Pacquiao keeps speaking of a return to the ring and is now said to be in talks for a fight with a fellow retired former world champion. Pacquiao made headlines recently when announcing his intent to compete in the Paris 2024 Olympics Games. Should he […]
Well-ranked world heavyweight contender Martin Bakole has sparred with both Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk and has now shared his prediction for the pair’s undisputed fight, saying one ‘has everything’. Bakole is set to appear on the undercard of Fury’s 10-round fight with former UFC champion Francis Ngannou this weekend. He takes on tough Cameroonian-born […]
Legendary British boxing promoter Frank Warren reckons Anthony Joshua is ‘fed up’ with his promoter Eddie Hearn’s ‘b******t.’ News emerged this week that former two-time and unified world champion Joshua has paid to seclude himself away in a dark room. It comes as talks continue between him and fellow former champion Deontay Wilder as to […]
A former sparring partner of Anthony Joshua believes it was a big mistake since the British heavyweight ‘won’t fight him’ in an official contest in the squared circle. As the saying goes, sparring stories should stay in the gym, but many that involve Scotland based Congolese fighter Martin Bakole have leaked out into the wider […]