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Vazquez-Marquez IV not in the cards

Dan Rafael

...For the past couple of months, it looked like they would add another chapter to their historical series of fights, but now it looks unlikely. They faced each other three consecutive times in junior featherweight...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 31, 2009

Pacquiao planning next fight

Dan Rafael

...fight in October and that is a good TV date," Arum said. "It's before the World Series and before you get heavy into the [baseball] playoffs." It also happens to be the date...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | May 29, 2007

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

Pacquiao-Mayweather will set new fight standard

Dan Rafael

...Mayweather Jr. eventually fight, it's going to be gargantuan business. It really is the fight the world wants to see. In my time on the boxing beat, I can't think of another fight...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 18, 2009

Arum's view of Pacquiao, Cotto training camps

Dan Rafael

...we can get a taste of both training camps on HBO's excellent "24/7 Pacquiao/Cotto" series, I wanted to hear Arum's take on what he had seen in his visits, so he...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 27, 2009

Super Six: Who do you like?

Dan Rafael

...Super Six World Boxing Classic, the modified round-robin tournament involving six elite super middleweights that will play out over the next 18 months or so and hopefully give us a series of outstanding...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 15, 2009

Happy to have Vazquez back in action

Dan Rafael

...question one of the best fighters in the world, and he's looking forward to proving himself...America as part of Golden Boy's monthly series. However, Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer told me...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 06, 2009

Title trinkets, birthday wishes and more

Dan Rafael

...with showing me how they can swim than they were about anything going on in our cartoon world of boxing. So I was a bit out of the loop for a few days. However, now...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 29, 2009

Pavlik denying Williams, boxing fans

Dan Rafael

...Showtime on Nov. 21. It's a major fight that is part of Showtime's Super Six World Boxing Classic. Obviously, Goossen isn't going to promote another major fight against himself. That would be...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 20, 2009

Schaefer in Big Apple to wheel and deal

Dan Rafael

Your weekly random thoughts. … • Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer has come East to make deals. When it comes to closing a deal, Schae...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 06, 2009

Margarito still running with wrong crowd

Dan Rafael

Your weekly random thoughts … • If Antonio Margarito wants to get his boxing license back in the United States, he sure is going abo...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 29, 2009

Haye runs his mouth, then just runs

Dan Rafael

Your weekly random thoughts … • Although the way David Haye and trainer/manager Adam Booth went about snubbing Vitali Klitschko in f...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 23, 2009

Super Six: Logical (and lucrative) for WBC

Dan Rafael

...leadership of Showtime, some of the most important promoters of the world will work together in what promises to be a very interesting series of fights involving the best fighters in the division," Sulaiman said...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 15, 2009

There's only one ... Ricky Flattened

Dan Rafael

...class, either. He spent most of the promotion telling everyone he was the greatest trainer in the world while disrespecting Roach by calling him "Freddie 'The Joke Coach' Roach." After Mayweather's man got destroyed...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 07, 2009

Hopkins-Trinidad II? Say it ain't so

Dan Rafael

Your weekly random thoughts … • I've been hearing rumblings of a Bernard Hopkins-Felix Trinidad rematch at 168 pounds being discussed...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 23, 2009