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.
Boxing fans love to debate who might rightfully sit at the top of any mythical pound-for-pound list but one world champion claims he has already ‘proved’ he is the best boxer to have ever lived. Boxing is a fickle sport in which one defeat can take a man from the top of the tree to […]
Eddie Hearn has revealed that his charge Anthony Joshua’s spar with a fellow British heavyweight was ‘a massacre.’ The promoter is helping to rebuild Joshua following a pair of losses to Oleksandr Usyk in 2021 and 2022 that saw the Brit relieved of his WBO, WBA and IBF world titles and then fail to win […]
There were plenty of eyes on Conor Benn’s last-minute return to the ring last Saturday following two failed drug tests which have kept him out of the ring for 18 months, and one popular British heavyweight says he won’t ‘forgive and forget.’ Benn’s long-mooted return came at short notice against Mexico’s super welterweight Rudolfo Orozco, […]
With just a few weeks to go until Tyson Fury fights Francis Ngannou, the pair have attended a media workout and Tyon’s father John was not impressed with what he saw calling it ‘a disgrace.’ Ngannou’s fight with lineal and WBC heavyweight champion Fury will be his pro debut. The Cameroonian-Frenchman has never stepped inside […]
John Fury believes the only way Anthony Joshua deserves a fight with his son Tyson is by beating one man. Joshua against Fury remains one of the biggest potential match-ups in boxing but, as of yet it, has eluded us. Joshua losing and failing to win back his WBA, WBO and IBF titles to Oleksandr […]
Teddy Atlas believes a heavyweight will prove to be something of a wasted talent that could have been a world champion had he been training him earlier in his career. The American has worked with the likes of Mike Tyson, Shannon Briggs and Michael Moorer – a two-time heavyweight champion under his guidance. As the […]
Zhilei Zhang has gone from the top of so-called the who needs him club to now being an interesting fight for many of the world’s most prominent heavyweights but it doesn’t seem like he is in a rush to face off with any of those names who ignored his advances before his high profile win […]
Taking a loss in boxing doesn’t always mean the end, but in the wake of one high-profile Brit taking his second professional defeat in a row Tony Bellew has claimed he ‘wouldn’t beat the British champion.’ Sometimes boxers come out of a defeat with an increased profile, fresh respect for their toughness, or with reflected […]
It seems that Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez is still smarting over his loss to Dmitry Bivol in May of 2022, as he has now claimed he is the ‘better’ fighter. The fight saw Canelo return to the light heavyweight division to challenge long-reigning undefeated WBA champion Bivol having previously beaten Sergey Kovalev at the weight in […]
Zhilei Zhang very much put himself in the ‘who needs him club’ at the weekend with a brutal third-round win over Brit Joe Joyce, but Carl Froch thinks there is one heavyweight who would take on the challenge. Zhang was impressive in his second back-to-back victory over Joe Joyce, who came in 25lbs heavier than […]
Freddie Roach has been involved in more than his fair share of high-level boxing match ups and ahead of the undisputed super middleweight clash between Jermell Charlo and Canelo Alvarez on September 30 he has made a bold prediction. Most famously, Roach was in the corner for the bulk of Manny Pacquiao’s biggest fights as […]
Former super middleweight world champion George Groves has admitted before he is a Usyk ‘fan boy’ and then doubled down on his view in the lead-up to Usyk’s last outing against Daniel Dubois, but in light of what happened has he changed his mind? That fight was marred by a controversial body shot that some […]