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.
One of the most exciting heavyweight contenders in the world has a clear view of how the Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois fight is login to go down this weekend saying one man will “beat the s**t” out of the other. Jared ‘Big Baby’ Anderson laid out all but one of his 15 opponents so […]
David Haye knows a thing or two about coming up against monstrous challenges at heavyweight and he has some controversial advice for Daniel Dubois on how to beat Oleksandr Usyk in his first world title shot. Most famously, Haye stepped into the ring against the towering Russian Nikolai Valuev in November 2009 to challenge for […]
Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and Jermell Charlo are to battle it out for super-middleweight honours in September and a fighter who faced them both sees one as the stronger man. Alvarez, who bounced back from a light-heavyweight loss to Dmitry Bivol with wins over Gennady Golovkin and John Ryder to keep his super-middleweight titles, will be […]
Whether the boxing world likes it or not, Tyson Fury is soon to fight MMA star Francis Ngannou and has recently reacted to footage of the Cameroonian-French professional mixed martial artist in training. Many fight fans are disappointed with Fury for not stepping up to fight one of his fellow heavyweight professionals to either defend […]
For many, Daniel Dubois’ best chance of victory against Oleksandr Usyk this weekend lies with his power and his coach Don Charles thinks no one else’s comes close. Dubois heads to Wraclow on August 26 for his first world title shot. In order to come away with the WBO, WBA and IBF belts, the 25-year-old […]
George Foreman had a decorated and record-setting career, but he has managed to pick one standout moment from it all. American heavyweight ‘Big George’ was on the scene for almost thirty years. Between his debut in 1969 and his retirement in 1997, he had some 81 fights against legendary names. Joe Frazier twice, Ken Norton, […]
Eddie Hearn often picks out his own fighters as the best in the business, but recently said one fighter not in his stable has become “the superstar he should have been years ago.” The UK promoter was, of course, paying tribute to one Terence Crawford. His comments to IFL TV come in the wake of […]
The strange recent trend of high-profile boxers revealing that they are not fans of the sport continues with a new revelation from one heavyweight champion. In recent weeks and months, there have been a number of fighters saying similar things: Jared Anderson claimed boxing to him was just a job, then Artur Beterbiev has said […]
Just days out from his own world title defense against Daniel Dubois, unified heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk has been asked how he sees the rematch between former Dubois opponent, Joe Joyce, and Zhilei Zhang going in September. Back in April, China’s ‘Big Bang’ Zhang secured a sixth-round TKO victory over Joyce to knock back […]
The boxing world waits with bated breath to find out who Terence Crawford is going to fight next, and the man himself says a fight excites him the same way ‘the one that got away’ did. Crawford is on top of the boxing world right now after his superlative performance against Errol Spence Jr to […]
Following Anthony Joshua’s victory over Robert Helenius earlier in August, Carl Froch has said Tony Bellew shouldn’t be DAZN commentary duties when his ‘friends’ are fighting. Froch’s comments came after Bellew seemed to be a lot more impressed with Joshua than many other onlookers, at one point suggesting he was carrying Helenius in order to […]
Just over a year since his second victory over Anthony Joshua, Oleksandr Usyk has confirmed something many had suspected in the lead-up to the first fight. Joshua and Usyk shared 24 rounds of tactical warfare in 2021 and 2022. The Ukrainian southpaw came out victorious in both fights to firstly win, and then defend, the […]