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Dan RafaelBlog | ChatsDan Rafael is ESPN.com's boxing writer. Rafael began writing for ESPN.com in March 2005 after working for 5 years as the boxing writer for USA Today. |
Who I voted for in HOF election
Dan RafaelAs a full member of the Boxing Writers Association of America, I've had the privilege of voting each year on candidates for the International Boxing H...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 08, 2009Let Hopkins-Jones be a lesson to Pacquiao-Mayweather
Dan RafaelThe return of your random thoughts … • Let what happened on Wednesday be a lesson to Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and all...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 04, 2009What now for Hopkins? Maybe Dawson
Dan RafaelPHILADELPHIA -- Chad Dawson, the young light heavyweight star, has been calling out Bernard Hopkins for ages, but Hopkins didn't have a lot of interes...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 02, 2009Funeka robbery can't be swept under the rug
Dan RafaelBad decisions don't happen just in the United States and Germany. You can add Canada to the list. Lightweight Ali Funeka dominated Joan Guzman so sev...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 29, 2009Hopkins has heavyweight title on his mind
Dan RafaelBernard Hopkins is 44. He'll turn 45 in January. For years, the former long-reigning middleweight champ has (with glee) reminded the media about his a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 28, 2009Thanksgiving offers no rest for busy boxing folks
Dan RafaelAlthough many folks are taking it easy this week because of Thanksgiving, that's not the case in boxing as several fights are in the works. While Top ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 24, 2009Fallen fighter gives gift of life
Dan RafaelThe death of junior featherweight Francisco "Paco" Rodriguez on Sunday night will not be in vain. Two days after Rodriguez was knocked out by Teon Ke...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 24, 2009Pacquiao's power? All natural
Dan RafaelAlmost as soon as referee Kenny Bayless waived off Manny Pacquiao's resounding 12th-round TKO of Miguel Cotto, talk turned to the prospect of the inev...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 21, 2009Froch pulling for Kessler in Super Six showdown with Ward
Dan RafaelThe eyes of the boxing world will be on Oakland, Calif., on Saturday (Showtime, 10 p.m. ET/PT) when super middleweight titlist Mikkel Kessler defends ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 19, 2009Pacquiao-Mayweather will set new fight standard
Dan RafaelWhen (and that's when, not if), Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. eventually fight, it's going to be gargantuan business. It really is the fight...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 18, 2009Mayweather already yapping about Pacquiao
Dan RafaelOther than a brief interview with a British television outlet, Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been awfully quiet in the aftermath of pound-for-pound king Ma...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 17, 2009Fighters make their Cotto-Pacquiao picks
Dan RafaelSo, who do you like in the big Miguel Cotto-Manny Pacquiao welterweight title bout on Saturday night (HBO PPV) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas? It's the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 10, 2009As usual, WBO, WBC should be ashamed
Dan Rafael...d be stripped. The WBO never even ordered the mandatory fight with Dzindziruk. According to Williams' promoter, Dan Goossen, their team was never notified that Williams was being stripped. Instead, Goossen found out when a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 07, 2009Tyson, Vargas talking comebacks? Say it ain't so!
Dan RafaelNo, you weren't seeing or hearing things. Yes, that was Mike Tyson standing next to Don King on Saturday night answering questions about a possible co...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 03, 2009Super Six in Dawson's future? Probably not
Dan RafaelAlthough Jermain Taylor's status in Showtime's Super Six World Boxing Classic super middleweight tournament remains up in the air after he suffered a ...
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