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.
Deontay Wilder has responded to comments made by Eddie Hearn that he doesn’t want to fight anymore. This is the latest episode in the ongoing drama between heavyweight hitters Wilder and Anthony Joshua. The pair have long been rumoured to be in discussions for what would be a mega fight sometime this year or early […]
Ahead of his own big fight this weekend, Tyson Fury has predicted what will happen on his undercard fight between Fabio Wardley and David Adeleye. The two heavyweights are fighting for the British title and have already come to blows in the build-up to the fight. Back at a press conference in September, Wardley and […]
Andy Ruiz Jr has been working as hard on his boxing as he has trying to talk himself into a big fight but, as of yet, he hasn’t managed it and has instead had to reject a call out from a former champion saying, ‘I can’t go backwards.’ Much of this year for former unified […]
Earlier this month it was announced that Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk have both signed a deal to fight each other in the first undisputed heavyweight title fight for over twenty years and since then the predictions have been rolling in with Riddick Bowe the latest to have his say. In order for the much-anticipated […]
John Fury has branded an all-time heavyweight icon a ‘traitor’ for turning against his son Tyson. Fighting man and long-time boxing fan John named his firstborn son Tyson after Mike Tyson, the legendary heavyweight boxer who knocked so much of his competition on the way to becoming the youngest-ever heavyweight champion back in 1986 aged […]
Tony Bellew continues to mention the name of one world champion who would entice him to make a ring return five years after his last fight. Evertonian Bellew retired off the back of a valiant but ultimately losing effort against a pound-for-pound great in Oleksandr Usyk in 2018. It is that sort of high-level match-up […]
Never one to hide his emotions, Tony Bellew has revealed the opponent he disliked the most in his career claiming ‘he looks down his nose at me.’ Bellew had a number of fractious pre-fight build-ups, most famously with David Haye across two box office fights that he won by knockout in 2017 and 2018. They […]
Former WBC world flyweight champion, Charlie Edwards, has said he doesn’t have ‘any time at all’ for his former trainer when asked why the pair split. The Brit joined up with decorated trainer Joe Gallagher in a bid to add more world titles to his collection. Gallagher has trained the likes of Liam and Callum […]
Anthony Joshua has said he is ‘here for the fans’ with regards to whether or not he might ever fight current lineal and WBC world champion Tyson Fury. Having not fought since his knockout win over Robert Helenius in August, Joshua is currently without an opponent or a fight date. There has been plenty of […]
Tony Bellew has made an emphatic prediction about what would happen should Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn finally get in the ring together – and it involves a knockout inside five rounds. Eubank and Benn were supposed to fight well over a year ago but the contest was canceled in fight week when news […]
Tony Bellew is something of a boxing historian and keen follower of the sport even years after his retirement and this week he has named who he thinks are the top two pound-for-pound fighters in the world. These mythological rankings are always an interesting and heated talking point for boxing fans, insiders, pundits and fighters […]
Decorated and unbeaten former fighter Joe Calzaghe fought the likes of Roy Jones Jr and Bernard Hopkins but it is another man that he has cited as the best he ever faced. Welshman Calzaghe was a generational great who went 15 years without losing despite facing some of the best ever in his division including […]