Dan Rafael: I wished that Shannon Briggs "went 15 rounds" with Vitali Klitschko

ESPN.com boxing scribe Dan Rafael and retired heavyweight ex-champion Shannon "The Cannon" Briggs have been engaged in a verbal war for the past couple of months, after Briggs launched a highly personal Twitter attack on Rafael, claiming that the popular journalist is unduly influenced by certain boxing figures and in his opinion, likely on the take.

Briggs also made numerous derogatory comments about Rafael's physical appearance, specifically targeting the writer's weight.

Rafael in return expressed irritation with Briggs, saying he needs to "watch what he says."

But this week, in his usual Friday afternoon chat session on ESPN, the boxing scribe went further.

"Briggs has made himself look like a fool in a lot more places than just twitter," Rafael replied to one commenter who had criticized Briggs' cyber-ramblings, but he didn't elaborate on this rather open-ended remark.

Later, Rafael chose to return to the subject, saying that after hearing Briggs' remarks about him, he wished that Briggs' fight against Vitali Klitschko, in which the Brooklyn native took a vicious, career-ending beating, "went 15 rounds," instead of the usual 12...

 

i remember when mosley and pac was signed he started tweeting shane with **** like "dont try to fool the public buddy you have no chance in this fight" mosley replied with "we'll see"

what a fat ****ing ****.

 

briggs called him fat, he wished briggs death.

 

he was taking a career ending beating, another 3 rounds could have done some serious harm.