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.
Former world champion turned pundit, Paulie Malignaggi, has revealed that he was left ‘befuddled’ by the performance of an Olympic medalist in his recent heavyweight outing. The fight took place back in April and saw the man many saw as an unstoppable force get stopped by the referee who had no choice in light of […]
While the main event may be a spectacle contest between the lineal and WBC world champion and a boxing novice, the undercard for Tyson Fury’s fight with Francis Ngannou could feature three legitimate heavyweight bouts. The much-talked-about coming together of Fury and Ngannou in Riyadh on October 28 is not the match-up many wanted to […]
As Tyson Fury’s fight with Francis Ngannou draws closer, Carl Froch has continued his back and forth with the world heavyweight champion and said his CV ‘doesn’t stack up against mine’ and that he should get in the right with a ‘real fighter.’ The British pair have been niggling at each other for some time […]
One retired and former three-weight world champion has no love for Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and says the two cannot be compared and that he would ‘destroy him.’ Canelo is in many people’s eyes a generational great. Having turned professional aged just 15 he has fought a long line of world champions past and present and […]
Trying to predict Tyson Fury’s next move has become something of an impossible task but former cruiserweight world champion Johnny Nelson has had a go anyway. In the years since Fury snatched his WBC world title away from Wladimir Klitschko in Germany in 2015, The Gypsy King has been impossible to second guess. He fought […]
Tyson Fury has reiterated his belief that Oleksandr Usyk ‘was crippled’ by a legitimate body shot thrown by Daniel Dubois during their fight in Poland at the end of August adding that ‘he quit.’ The controversial punch came mid-way through Usyk’s second defense of his WBO, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles. He took the […]
The last man to fight Dillian Whyte before the Brixton heavyweight failed a drugs test has said ‘it’s b***shit’ that so many fighters are getting caught taking banned substances. 34-year-old Whyte has now returned adverse findings in three separate drug tests across his career – the first was in 2012 when he received a two-year […]
Tyson Fury’s next fight is against MMA star Francis Ngannou, but people can’t stop asking about a potential match-up with fellow British heavyweight Anthony Joshua – who Fury has now called ‘a journeyman’ and a ‘sausage.’ The all-British clash would be a monstrous one even despite the fact it wouldn’t be for all the belts […]
Many people are excited to see big-hitting heavyweight Deontay Wilder back in the ring, and one man who put up a solid showing against Anthony Joshua has now offered to make it happen. Throughout this year fans were told Wilder and Joshua would finally get in the ring with each other at the start of […]
Joe Joyce has revealed details of sparring sessions with Francis Ngannou and thinks the former MMA fighter has the power to knock out Tyson Fury in their upcoming fight. Joyce is deep in camp for his own rematch with Zhilei Zhang, having lost to the Chinese heavyweight earlier in the year. ‘The Juggernaut’ took time […]
Carl Frampton was not shy with his view that Oleksandr Usyk should have been counted out during the defense of his WBA, WBO and IBF world titles against Daniel Dubois back in August and has not changed his mind since. Former champion turned pundit Frampton was working on the broadcast for TNT Sports Box Office […]
Popular British heavyweight Dave Allen has fought some of the biggest names in boxing but has failed to ever gain much momentum, often coming out on the losing side of entertaining and high-profile bouts. He most recently made a welcome return to the ring to take on Olympic medalist Frazer Clarke. The fight ended in […]