Alan Dawson is Boxing Social's editor. He is also a columnist for Uncrowned at Yahoo Sports, and the founder-moderator of Boxing Twitter — a 20,000-strong community on X. A 17-year sports media veteran, Alan has enjoyed extensive stints at Business Insider as a correspondent, BT Sport as digital editor, and Give Me Sport as combat sports editor. He is a 2-time Sports Journalist of the Year finalist and has been honored six times by the Boxing Writers Association of America. Alan grew up near London but is based in Nevada with his young family. Outside boxing he plays 8-handicap golf, hikes, and rides his ebike through the Sierra mountain trails.
British boxer, Carl Froch, provided an unlikely inspiration to a much younger David Benavidez during the tail-end of the Cobra’s Hall-of-Fame career. The 48-year-old fought for the final time in 2014 when he finished English rival, George Groves, in the eighth-round of a firefight in front of 80,000 raucous fans at Wembley Stadium in London, […]
The calamitous rematch organizers planned involving historic welterweight rivals Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao received a significant update on Wednesday, April 29. It turns out one of Mayweather’s recent mutterings was true. Despite official statements from Netflix, that the match would be a fully sanctioned fist-fight held at The Sphere of Las Vegas, one official […]
Skye Nicolson dominated Mariah Turner on April 29, winning a unanimous decision (100-89 x3) in Melbourne to retain her WBC interim super-bantamweight title and strengthen her push toward a unification fight, as reported by Boxing Social on the bell. It could have been worse for Turner, who was almost stopped in the sixth after Nicolson […]
Benjamin Whittaker makes his American debut on a massive stage June 27 at the Barclays Center in New York, ahead of the blockbuster super welterweight bout between the unified champion Xander Zayas and challenger Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis. For Whittaker, it’s a chance to take his showboating brand of boxing entertainment to a new market, having […]
Matchroom chairman, Eddie Hearn, reserved the highest of praises for rapidly-rising heavyweight Teremoana Teremoana who, on Wednesday, scored a first-round knockout over Bowie Tupou, dropping the experienced opponent after only 74 seconds to extend his first-round KO streak to 11, unbeaten. “That was one of the scariest knockouts I’ve seen,” he said, moments after the […]
Zuffa Boxing spent $15 million for Conor Benn to leave Matchroom and join the upstart fight firm on a one-fight basis which he completed when he labored to a 12-round win over Regis Prograis, earlier this month. The Las Vegas-based company then extended the fighter’s deal for a five-fight, 2.5-year basis. But according to boxing […]
If there is an argument to be made that Anthony Joshua ducked Deontay Wilder, then somebody, anybody, many bodies, will make it. While the American puncher’s manager, Shelly Finkel, stopped short of making the claim himself, he did tell Sky Sports that he never received any contact from AJ through the Brit’s career-long representative, Eddie […]
One-time WBO lightweight champion, Keyshawn Davis, made a bold claim about former middleweight fighter, Conor Benn, if and when they ever come to blows in a boxing ring. A former Matchroom standout developed as the next in line to take the baton from Anthony Joshua or Katie Taylor as a stadium fighter, Benn shocked the […]
The grandson of legendary boxer, Marvin Hagler, has a message for fight fans in the wake of Zuffa Boxing’s advocacy for proposed changes to the landscape of American boxing through The Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act. There are some things fighters might like, as Hall-of-Fame fighter Tim Bradley pointed out this week, with health […]
Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez’s wild ducking of David Benavidez continues. For years, they were both competing in the super middleweight division, with ‘El Monstro’ clearly developing a resume worthy of a big bout, but yet Canelo overlooked him, instead happy to take on the likes of Jaime Munguia, Edgar Berlanga, and William Scull. The fighter’s trainer-manager, […]
Shakur Stevenson pumped the brakes on a speculated fight between himself and fellow American fighter, Devin Haney. One of the most gifted fighters in the entire sport, Stevenson stormed toward the top of the pound-for-pound rankings in the last year alone thanks to his back-to-back wins over William Zepeda in a WBC lightweight world title […]
It may not be long before one of American boxing’s best-known fighters, Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis, makes his return to the ring. Through his pay-per-view headline appearances from 2020 to 2025, fighting the likes of Leo Santa Cruz in his box office debut to breaking the 1 million sales barrier with Ryan Garcia, and then joining […]