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 IBF world heavyweight champion Charles Martin gave upcoming star Jared Anderson the biggest test of his career so far this past weekend. Martin, who took a year out of the ring following his knockout loss to Anthony Joshua in 2016, has been up and down ever since returning, losing to Adam Kownacki and Luis […]
Eddie Hearn is one of the biggest promoters in the world by any measure, and has revealed a fighter he believes helped to put him on the map over a decade ago. The Matchroom Head is now synonymous with having worked with some of the biggest fighters on the planet, from Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez to […]
Deontay Wilder has grown increasingly frustrated with Andy Ruiz Jr during protracted fight negotiations this last month, and now he has sent a big warning to the former unified heavyweight champion. Wilder has fought just once since his two losses to Tyson Fury back in October 2021, and that was a one-round blow out of […]
Always a keen boxing historian and never shy with his opinions, Tony Bellew has marked Tyson Fury out as a rare talent in today’s landscape before offering some advice to the heavyweight champion. When speaking to iFL TV, former world cruiserweight champion, Bellew said the ‘The Gypsy King’ is unlike anyone else out there right […]
It is fair to say that Daniel Dubois’s career has seen plenty of ups and downs but promoter Frank Warren is still backing him to come out on top in the biggest fight of his life against Oleksandr Usyk. Still just 25, ‘Dynamite’ Daniel Dubois is a big puncher with a 90% knockout ratio. His […]
The Jared Anderson hype train is gathering plenty of momentum of late, not least in part thanks to a number of great soundbites from the Toledo heavyweight who has now declared himself a ‘killer.’ ‘The Real Big Baby’ has won all 14 of his fights in impressive fashion with big knockouts dating back to his […]
On July 1, heavyweight sensation Jared Anderson is making his much-anticipated home debut in Toledo and many believe he can be a future ruler of the division. His promotional outfit Top Rank is investing heavily in their man, and he is certainly backing himself to come out on top against anyone he may fight. The […]
Anthony Joshua is currently in talks to reignite his domestic rivalry with Dillian Whyte – although should talks fail there are reportedly two other opponents waiting. This week it emerged that negotiations between the two – who have fought each other once in the amateurs when Whyte won, and once in the pros in 2015 […]
It hasn’t yet been signed but Eddie Hearn has been teasing how much Anthony Joshua might earn to fight Deontay Wilder. Matchroom chief, Hearn, and former unified heavyweight champion, Joshua, have long been talking about fighting Alabama knockout artist Wilder later in the year or at the start of 2024 as part of a big […]
Regardless of who, where, or when he next fights, Tommy Fury will be no longer doing it under the auspices of long-time promoter Frank Warren and Queensberry Promotions. Fury turned pro with Warren back in 2018. That fight in Manchester on a Josh Warrington undercard was his debut and ever since then, he has been […]
Undisputed world lightweight champion Devin Haney has said that Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather ‘messed up boxing’ by retiring undefeated. The highly rated Haney, who once had a close relationship with Mayweather, certainly hasn’t shied away from a challenge himself. At just 24 years old, ‘The Dream’ has already beaten big names including Jorge Linares, Yuriorkis Gamboa, […]
It has been the best part of nine months since Savannah Marshall’s unanimous decision loss to American star Claressa Shields, and now the Hartlepool native has admitted the loss has been hard to overcome. It was a bold step up for Marshall to put her WBO world middleweight belt on the line against Shields at […]