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.
A year on from Chris Eubank Sr threatening to pull his son out of the ill-fated fight with Conor Benn over weight concerns, Frank Warren has agreed with the comments and called the idea of the fight now ‘a nonsense.’ The topic has arisen again following Eubank Jr’s impressive knockout victory over Liam Smith in […]
The prospect of having one undisputed heavyweight champion is tantalisingly close with all the belts currently shared between Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury, but one towering heavyweight thinks he will be the man to claim all four world titles. Fury is the man with the most prestigious WBC belt and the lineal title, though next […]
Although big fights in the top division don’t get made as often as fans would like, Derek Chisora maintains there is one heavyweight ‘everyone wants.’ For many years, the marquee fights between the likes of Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury, Fury and Oleksandr Usyk, and Joshua and Deontay Wilder have evaded fans for various reasons […]
Mike Tyson is busy training Francis Ngannou before he makes his professional debut against Tyson Fury but, ahead of that, the unlikely pair have taken time out to discuss their favourite fighters. Tyson and Ngannou hooked up in the final few weeks before the former MMA heavyweight champion faces off against Fury under boxing rules […]
There has been plenty of talk about drug testing in boxing in recent weeks, and now one well-known fighter has admitted he wasn’t tested at all before his recent bout with a former Olympic heavyweight. Last year, British boxing was blighted with the failed test of Conor Benn ahead of his domestic grudge match with […]
Tony Bellew believes boxers should go out on their shield in defeat, and he isn’t afraid to call out those he sees as “quitters.” Following his criticism of the way Daniel Dubois seemingly allowed himself to be counted out during his world title challenge with Oleksandr Usyk, Bellew has now labelled Ohara Davies a quitter […]
Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder has been advertised by all involved as next up. The match-up between the two big hitters would be huge. Both Joshua and Wilder have been world champions, and both have suffered tough back-to-back defeats to current title holders, Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury respectively. Despite all the positive moves to […]
Former undisputed cruiserweight and heavyweight world champion, Evander Holyfield, has kept a close eye on boxing ever since officially retiring in 2014, and has this week named his favourite fighter. Olympic bronze medalist Holyfield himself is a legend in the sport – at the time he was still fighting, he was the only boxer in […]
As if Tyson Fury facing Francis Ngannou wasn’t a strange enough main event for a professional boxing card, John Fury, the father of the WBC champion has now come out to say he would like to fight heavyweight legend Mike Tyson on the same evening. Tyson Fury is to square up with MMA star Ngannou […]
One fast-rising American heavyweight might be lacking in experience, but he isn’t lacking in confidence as he declares himself ‘the best on the planet.’ Jared Anderson has won all 16 of his fights, 15 by knockout and just one over the distance. He has shown great power on his way up and many are tipping […]
Daniel Dubois and his team are clinging to hopes that an appeal of his loss to Oleksandr Usyk in their world title fight will get them at least a rematch, but Usyk’s manager Egis Klimas has said that would be believing ‘in magic.’ Their hopes are hung on whether the WBA will rule Dubois’s body […]
Eddie Hearn has weighed in on the controversial low-blow debate that has dominated the post-fight talk since Oleksandr Usyk beat Daniel Dubois out in Poland. Usyk successfully defended his WBA, WBO and IBF world titles for a second time when knocking out Dubois in the ninth round. One of the main discussions since has been […]