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.
In the wake of his impressive victory over Liam Smith, Chris Eubank Jr has been linked to plenty of fights, though one world champion he dismissed as ‘unheard of’ has now responded and said he will knock the Brit out in the ‘first round.’ After stopping Smith in a flawless display, Eubank has options as […]
Famous British fighters and former world champions Carl Froch and Tony Bellew have been mulling over what might happen had the two ever come to blows in the ring. Both men displayed plenty of heart, desire and enough skill to lift world titles in their respective divisions. They were both frequent bill toppers who had […]
Right now there is no indication the fight is close to happening, but Lennox Lewis has still made a prediction as to what might happen should Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk ever face off for the undisputed heavyweight crown. Usyk currently holds the WBA, WBO and IBF belts while Fury has the WBC championship. Both […]
They don’t come much tougher than former boxing world champion turned sometime bare-knuckle fighter and pundit, Paulie Malignaggi, but he doesn’t see the same mentality in one upcoming heavyweight who he thinks ‘can’t be the future’ of boxing. In a 16-year career from 2001 to 2017, Malignaggi held world championships in two weight classes. He […]
It seems that Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez is not taking the upcoming challenge of Jermell Charlo lightly. Some in boxing have started to question whether the Mexican great has peaked following a loss to Dmitry Bivol, a distance-fight with an ageing Gennady Golovkin and a title defence against John Ryder which saw him fail to stop […]
February 11 1990 is forever etched into boxing history as the night that Buster Douglas caused arguably the biggest upset the sport has ever seen by beating Mike Tyson – but does the man himself see something similar happening when Francis Ngannou makes his professional boxing debut against WBC champion Tyson Fury? Tyson was the […]
The debate about whether or not Oleksandr Usyk was hit low rages on weeks after Daniel Dubois threw the controversial punch. Now, one heavyweight contender claims this is the latest piece of evidence in a long list that shows the Ukrainian ‘can get hurt to the body.’ It was in the fifth round of his […]
Despite so much talk earlier in the year, negotiations for Anthony Joshua to fight Deontay Wilder seem to have stalled but Frank Warren has now stepped in and suggested a potential replacement opponent for ‘AJ.’ Joshua is looking to get back to the top of the world heavyweight tree following a pair of setback losses […]
Matchroom CEO Eddie Hearn has named who he sees as ‘the best heavyweight in the world’ right now – and it isn’t one of his own charges. Hearn has often come out to say his own man Anthony Joshua has the best resume in sport – and he did have an argument following Joshua’s wins […]
Following his impressive knockout victory over Liam Smith earlier in September, news broke that Chris Eubank Jr’s trainer Brian ‘BoMac’ McIntyre was arrested at Manchester airport and he had now admitted it was ‘mind-blowing’ news. McIntyre, who is also the celebrated trainer of Terence Crawford, was charged with possession of a firearm and possession of […]
Tyson Fury has once again changed his mind about fighting unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk and has now claimed the fight is ‘irrelevant’. Fury has spoken in the latest media round in the build-up to his fight with Francis Ngannou. It takes place on October 28 in Riyadh and will be the former MMA fighter’s […]
John Ryder is one of few men to have taken Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez the distance in a world title fight, so if’s of little surprise that people are keen for his predictions on the Mexican’s upcoming bout with Jermell Charlo. That bout was back in May at the Estadio Akron in Guadalajara, Mexico, in front […]