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.
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Welterweight champion Jaron Ennis has sent out a huge threat to his next opponent Cody Crowley ahead of the pair meeting in the ring to contest a world title. Not long after signing for Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing, Ennis will be defending his IBF world welterweight title against Crowley at Wells Fargo Centre on July […]
There are few people alive today who have been closer to boxing for longer than Bob Arum and now the promotional legend has named who he says is the best boxer he has ever seen. Arum heads up the Top Rank stable and has done so for decades. He has promoted some of the biggest […]
Oleksandr Usyk has revealed what his mother has said about Tyson Fury following months of build-up to their highly anticipated undisputed showdown this weekend. There has been plenty of back and forth between these two unbeaten boxers. Most of it has come from Fury and been aimed at Usyk, who he has called a middleweight, […]
A popular former heavyweight champion has revealed that he is retiring from the sport and hanging up his gloves. One of the hardest parts of the fight game of being can be knowing when to walk away and leave it all behind, but that is the decision that Australian big man Lucas Browne has made. […]
Carl Froch has broken down what he thinks might happen in a super fight between Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and Terence Crawford. ‘Canelo’ is a multi-weight great who has only lost two fights despite having stepped inside the ring as a professional more than 65 times. They came against the imperium Floyd Mayweather early in his […]
Tony Bellew has not held back with his views on the huge punishment that should be dealt out to Ryan Garcia in light of his recent two failed drug tests. Bellew has always been outspoken when it comes to those prove to have taken drugs. He’s a keen boxing historian and hardcore fan of the […]
After plenty of talk and not so much action, it seems like Shakur Stevenson finally has a big fight on the horizon as he has been targeted to fight a major pound-for-pound contender later in the year. Stevenson currently holds the WBC lightweight championship and has solidified his status as one of boxing’s most talented […]
After many months, if not years, of speculation about a fight between the two, it seems as though a fresh and positive update about the status of a battle between Joshua Buatsi and Anthony Yarde could suggest it might yet happen after all. This pair have long been on a collision course in what would […]
Carl Froch has not held back in his disappointment at Ryan Garcia for the American fighters’ recent failed drug tests saying ‘I’m genuinely angry.’ Garcia has had a rollercoaster few weeks. In the lead-up to his fight with Devin Haney for the WBC world super lightweight title on April 20, he exhibited some worrying behaviour […]
Tony Bellew thinks there is one big secret weapon that Tyson Fury is missing when it comes to his fight with Oleksandr Usyk. Bellew has been up close and personal with Usyk having fought him for the undisputed cruiserweight title and all four belts that go with it back in 2018. Bellew boxed as well […]
For many people, Naoya Inoue is the pound-for-pound number one right now but that hasn’t stopped Eddie Hearn from naming the man from his Matchroom stable that he would like to face ‘The Monster.’ Multi-weight champion and power-punching Japanese boxer Inoue defended his undisputed WBA, WBC, IBF, and WBO super-bantamweight world titles against Mexican Luis […]
Devin Haney continues to speak out about Ryan Garcia’s failed drug tests and it has now been revealed what action he wants taken against his former opponent. Garcia has been in turmoil this week ever since the news was reported that he twice tested positive for a banned steroid, once before his fight with Haney […]