Dan Rafael being objective as ever...

Remember when he was asked about Haye on sky? He had nothing but good things to say.

He calls Haye a tweet blocking crybaby but the mother****sr blocked me for calling him fat and ugly.

 

Fk the toe

 

Yep, noticed it as well, most of his tweets are about the "toe", he probably thinks they are funny as ****.

 

When Rafael does his chat wrap on ESPN each Friday he namedrops so much. He tells you how often he's spoken to Richard Schaefar (sp) and other boxing bigwigs, he tells us which fights he was at and will be at, he mentions about how he was with this fighter and that fighter and expects us to give a ****. He also has this thing called the 'Batphone' in which he answers while chatwrapping. Then he sticks the phone down and says something like, "uh, that was Bob Arum" and then offers us some breaking news which he probably got from a Reuters newsfeed but he tells us he got it from Arum.

Deal is, Dan left USA Today and was picked up by ESPN. I know who got the worst deal.

 

He's a gossip man. Good for nothing else.

 

By far your best post.

 

Good afternoon HM.

Why thank you for your good words.:good

It's true though, I get onto that **** chat wrap because I'm ****ing obsessed with boxing and I'm always wanting to be up to date, but it's cringeworthy. He does the 'Lovechild' and 'Pay the man, Shirley' thing far too much too. He mentions his cats (Popo and Thunder, I've had them, not literally, rammed down my throat so much I can even remember their names) and his wife too much (who gives?), but it's the star****ing that does me..."I was at the after-fight party last week with Miguel Cotto and Erik Morales, we had a great talk" "Richard called me and he says he thinks the fight will be made by October" (note no surname, implying friendship).

Get Al Bernstein on board instead of Dan Rafael.

 

lolling about the Brittard butthurt in this thread.

Raphael is an opinion journalist as well as a reporter. A lot of sports writers work in that sort of grey area.

Really Raphael should make fun of Haye for constantly diving on the ground to avoid punches during the fight, not the broken pinky toe which was the icing on the disgraceful cake.

Get a clue, dipshits.

 

Dan Rafael seems to do a very good job. Love him or hate you just can't ingnore him. He gets people talking about the sport, he drives passion in those who wouldn't otherwise care. Chaps like Jack who only a week ago said something to the effect of "I'm never talking about the HW division again until some loud American breaks through" is now starting a thread about his least favourite division and all thanks to Dan Rafael.

"All publicity is good publicity" which Mr. Rafael has used to the max. Dan, you're doing a bang up job.

:good

 

At least spell the ****'s name right.

 

Fat Dan is just jealous of anyone who can actually see their own feet without using a mirror.

He's not a good journalist or commentator, he's just a gossiping old woman

 

Haye offered up one of the most disgraceful efforts in a championship fight in recent memory and Dan is simply keeping this in the forefront of people's minds as David attempts to land a fight with Vitali, a fight he is truly undeserving of.

 

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.

12 rounds of the pummelling from Klitschko was enough to put Briggs in a German hospital for two weeks.

Immediately after that last comment from Rafael, negative reaction developed, with one poster saying that that remark "wasn't very nice."

"It wasn't meant to be," Rafael curtly replied, before promptly ending the session, a move suggesting that perhaps many of the chat participants didn't approve of the verbal shot at Briggs.

 

fair enough but why didn't wlad press the action too?

if haye was simply running why didn't wlad cut off the ring and hit him on his glass jaw and knock him out? :huh

 

Wlad's content to stay behind his jab, take minimal risks, and win by UD. Fine strategy but not must see TV. So that is unfortunate from the perspective of fans of aggressive heavyweights. I'm one of those.
But if you're going to beat him, you have to take risks. And when you possess a 1 punch KO right hand and talk it up, but don't take those risks, then you get crucified by the public.