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.
It was recently claimed that Connor Benn would learn the final outcome of his anti-doping case by the end of last week. Benn tested positive for clomifene in July and September of 2022 in the lead-up to his grudge match with Chris Eubank Jr. Arguments have rumbled on for the ensuing nine months and recently […]
British boxing legend, Carl Froch, is never far from a controversial opinion and so it has proved again with his views on whether Tyson Fury has done enough to warrant a place in the Boxing Hall of Fame. Froch himself is a Hall of Famer having been inducted earlier this year and will go down […]
Former American heavyweight world champion Larry Holmes is one of the most celebrated fighters of his era and has recently share his views on what he thinks was his greatest night in the ring. Holmes’s career impressively spanned over 29 years. In that time he had an eye-watering 75 fights, winning 69 of them and […]
Usyk’s team has not hidden frustrations this week with Tyson Fury’s announcement that he will be fighting MMA champion Francis Ngannou, branding him a “joker.” The Ukrainian’s promoter, Alexander Krassyuk, even went as far as saying the WBC champion should be stripped of his belt due to inactivity. “From a sports point of view he […]
Naseem Hamed is about as shy outside the ring as he was in it. Once again, he has been pulling no punches in interviews this week and has revealed the advice he gave to British heavyweight Anthony Joshua in the lead-up to his last fight. It was on April 1 in London when Joshua began […]
Eddie Hearn has continued to say that the ill-fated but much anticipated Conor Benn vs Chris Eubank Jr fight is close during various interviews – but Jr’s promoter Kalle Sauerland seems much less optimistic. The all-British match-up was originally scheduled for October 8 in 2022 but was canceled after it was revealed Benn failed two […]
Daniel Dubois has a shot at the unified heavyweight world titles, currently held by Oleksandr Usyk, at just 25-years-old. There are, at last, some big fights on the heavyweight horizon which means plenty of predictions are starting to fly. Dillian Whyte is the latest to offer his views on how his fellow Brit Dubois will […]
Talks have been ongoing between Andy Ruiz Jr and Deontay Wilder for an autumn fight, and although a deal still seems some way away, both parties have maintained their interest in the clash. There has been plenty of online back and forth between the two former world champions. Alabama’s Wilder has accused Ruiz of “acting […]
For some, Mike Tyson might be regarded as one of the best to have entered the boxing ring in the last century. But the former fighter once known as ‘The Baddest Man on the Planet’ is picking legendary multi-weight champion Floyd Maywather as the greatest pugilist of the last 100 years. On his own Hotboxin’ […]
Anthony Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, has laid out clearly who the former champion must beat in order to get inducted into the boxing Hall of Fame. In a recent backstage press session following the announcement of his second professional fight with Dillian Whyte, ‘AJ’ asked the assembled media what it takes to get into the […]
Finally, things are starting to happen in the heavyweight division and at the press conference to announce his rematch with Dillian Whyte, Anthony Joshua has been sharing his views on the upcoming fight between Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois. Usyk’s fight with Dubois in Wroclaw, Poland on August 26 is the second defence of his […]
The news was finally made official that WBC world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and former UFC fighter Francis Ngannou will be facing off in a boxing match in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on October 28, and it’s fair to say reactions were mixed. One of the first people to share their thoughts was Egis Klimas, manager […]