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.
As a holder of 10 world titles in a record eight weight divisions and four of them as lineal champion, Manny Pacquiao has faced as many great fighters in one career as anyone could and has now been named the hardest hitter of them all saying ‘he hurt me several times.’ The Pacquiao story is […]
Anthony Joshua has only had two fights with latest trainer Derrick James but already one man thinks he might be ready to switch things up once more. Since rather unceremoniously splitting from his long-time professional trainer Rob McCracken after their defeat to Oleksandr Usyk in 2021, Joshua has struggled to settle with a solid replacement. […]
Billy Joe Saunders is back in the media following the announcement of his return to the ring later in the year, and he has had his say on what might happen should Tyson Fury ever face off in the ring with fellow Brit, Anthony Joshua. Tricky southpaw Saunders hasn’t fought since a crushing loss to […]
Chris Eubank Jr was told he would be ‘knocked out in the first round’ if he fancied a shot at the world middleweight title. WBO champion Janibek Alimkhanuly took to social media earlier in October to call Eubank out, who was coming off the back of his impressive knockout victory over Liam Smith and is now […]
One-time world title holder Andy Ruiz Jr has given his prediction on what would happen should his former opponent Anthony Johsua take on China’s Zhilei Zhang. Ruiz and Joshua fought twice, the first time back in June 2019 when the Mexican was a late stand-in opponent for Jarell Miller who had failed a drug test […]
Tyson Fury has made his first public comments about his historic undisputed fight with Oleksandr Usyk in December. The fight was announced last month with no venue or date but all sides seemed to agree it has been signed. It will only take place if WBC king Fury gets through his fight with former MMA […]
There continues to be plenty of fallout from Joe Joyce’s loss to Zhilei Zhang in August. Now, his promoter Frank Warren has described the comments of Tony Bellew as ‘disrespectful and rude’ but said ‘nobody takes him seriously.’ After Joyce took his second knockout loss to Zhang in a quicker fashion than the first time […]
Carl Frampton had a glittering career and stepped into the ring with plenty of world-level fighters, but the one he claims hit him the hardest might not be a name many would have predicted. The Northern Irish pro held world championships in two weight classes, including the unified WBA and IBF Super-bantamweight title and the […]
Few people spoke much about Zihlei Zhang until his back-to-back wins over Brit Joe Joyce, but now he is a popular figure who is very much in the heavyweight picture with some of the biggest names in the sport. Both of those wins over the formerly unbeaten and often immovable looking Joyce have come this […]
The whole boxing world is excited by the prospect of Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury facing off and Claressa Shields is the latest to offer her view, saying she thinks it’s going to be an ‘interesting fight.’ Shields calls herself the GWOAT, or greatest woman of all time, on account of having held world championships […]
John Fury doesn’t think a fight between WBA, WBO and IBF champion Oleksandr Usyk and former WBC champion Deontay Wilder would last very long at all. Wilder has fought only once since the third and final fight in his historic trilogy with Tyson Fury. After a controversial draw in the first meeting, Wilder took two […]
A former heavyweight champion has called out British fighter David Haye and promised to ‘flatline’ him. A British boxing great, Haye held multiple world titles in his career and has been retired since back-to-back losses to Tony Bellew in 2017. He is one of the few men to have had championship success in both cruiserweight […]