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Dan 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.

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Thanksgiving offers no rest for busy boxing folks

Dan Rafael

Although 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, 2009

Obastacles Facing Pacquiao - Mayweather Jr. Fight

SportsCenter

ESPN.com boxing writer Dan Rafael details the biggest issues facing Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. if the two are going...

Blog | November 24, 2009

Fallen fighter gives gift of life

Dan Rafael

The 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, 2009

Pacquiao's power? All natural

Dan Rafael

Almost 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, 2009

Froch pulling for Kessler in Super Six showdown with Ward

Dan Rafael

The 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, 2009

Pacquiao-Mayweather will set new fight standard

Dan Rafael

When (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, 2009

Mayweather Jr. Calls Out Pacquiao

Sportscenter

...it's not a fight he can win." But According to ESPN.com's boxing writer Dan Rafael, the Pacquiao camp believes Mayweather has cold feet. "I got a feeling Mayweather doesn't really...

Blog | November 17, 2009

Mayweather already yapping about Pacquiao

Dan Rafael

Other 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, 2009

Fighters make their Cotto-Pacquiao picks

Dan Rafael

So, 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, 2009

As 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, 2009

Tyson, Vargas talking comebacks? Say it ain't so!

Dan Rafael

No, 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, 2009

ESPN.com's shining jewel: AFC East chat wrap

Tim Graham, AFC East

...quality production you find in the AFC East chat is, quite frankly, unmatched. What was that? Dan Rafael went 3:29? Clearly, he has issues

Blog | October 31, 2009

Super Six in Dawson's future? Probably not

Dan Rafael

Although Jermain Taylor's status in Showtime's Super Six World Boxing Classic super middleweight tournament remains up in the air after he suffered a ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 31, 2009

Quick return for Cris Arreola

Dan Rafael

Usually, when a top heavyweight loses, especially in a major fight, he goes many months before fighting again. But that's not going to be the case wit...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 29, 2009

Williams scrambling for opponent, site

Dan Rafael

...left hand, it has left Williams & Co. scrambling. The fight is 38 days away, and promoter Dan Goossen still has no opponent, no site and no co-feature for the HBO "World Championship Boxing...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 28, 2009