What do you think of Dan Rafael?

Damn I feel bad now. Should I take this thread down? would it be beneficial for Dan to see this? I doubt Fat Dan gives a sh1t tbh. He'll have been called a lot worse things on Twitter. Anyway, he has the best job in the world, getting paid big monies to "report" about boxing and nothing else. He's probably laughing at us moaning about him.

Damn I feel bad now. Should I take this thread down? would it be beneficial for Dan to see this? Yes that POS should see this thread.

Damn I feel bad now. Should I take this thread down? would it be beneficial for Dan to see this?

He spends a lot of time posting about his memorabilia...a lot of time

while he may have a scoop from time to time, I have ZERO respect for him. The weight is his own problem but it does not do any good for the sport. My biggest issue with him is his lack of respect towards boxing fans and anyone who disagrees with him. His completely screwed up job "reporting" on the wilder/povetkin fight is just one of his latest fiascos. In the Russian media, they asked Ryabinski about it... and he responded how credible can a reporter be, reporting on something that he never bothered to confirm? Ryabinski said he was always available to talk about it. Beyond that, his outbursts at fans on twitter, pathetic. Unfortunately, he is the face of boxing for a lot of people. Plenty of youtubers who are much more talented and dedicated to Boxing who would do a better job for ESPN for a fraction of the price... heck, I am sure they would do it for free.

Rafael is decent for behind the scenes stuff, but he doesn't know sh1t about the actual sport. He just loves wars and brawls, and gets a massive erection whenever he hears Arturo Gatti's name.

Wow!! Now I almost feel bad for the guy!!

As long as cardiac dan is ESPN's "boxing guy" that tells us that they have no respect for this sport.

Dan Rafael is an absolute joke and should barely have his own blog let alone be ESPN's lead boxing reporter. Nothing insightful, no actual knowledge of what's happening INSIDE the ring, and just completely childish on Twitter. The type of guy to go to an event and tweet all Sunday complaining about waiting for flights instead of giving any compelling views on what happened the night before. I dare anyone here to post an insightful and investigative piece penned by Rafael, you won't be able to because he doesn't actually write anything informative. Instead, Dan simply reports the news (which anyone can do) and copy pastas from press releases.

anybody follow fat dan on twitter? if so, send this link to him, and tell him to read it lol

I think the people who make cracks about his weight are just picking the low hanging fruit. So what if hes fat? John Madden is fat. Col. Bob Sheridan is fat. Lots of people are fat. Doesnt have anything to do with how he does his job. I do agree however that it should be beneath someone in his position to get in the childish spats he does. He should just ignore people instead of engaging in that nonsense.

That fat fuk wouldn't fit on a poster Do you mean you have Dan Raphael wallpaper? :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

You obviously ignore a lot of boxing writers, nothing wrong with that they usually suck, but I assure you Fat Dan is solid. Go read some of that **** that Scoop Malinowski(?) puts out. Or go check out that article from just a few days ago by a notable boxing writer that was like a essay broken down to one paragraph that he repeated at least 8 times. Dan's for sure not a hack in this business even if he's a biased (like everyone else) emotional weakling. Elie on the otherhand is like a autistic success story with his goofy ass. Its amazing to me he's done what he's done & he makes me feel like I could be huge in boxing media if I merely applied myself + finally put the time in learning the difference between then & than. Strike the last part cuz I'm positive Elie don't know that **** either. Rafael is NOT a good writer. You insult the long history of excellent boxing writers by even calling Rafael a "writer." Rafael is an excellent transcriber of press releases, and he also excels at Tweets...but he has yet to "write" a boxing "story." Most of his posts are the most basic factual recountings of a few hundred words...no nuance, no characters, no context, no drama, no creativity. Because of its natural melodrama and unique characters, boxing has attracted some of the greatest writers in American literature, including Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, James Baldwin, Gay Talese and George Plimpton. Current boxing writers - meaning those who can not only report basic facts and accurately reflect the judges' scores, but also include flavor, emotion, drama, creativity, backstory and human character - include: - Mark Kriegel (see his books on Mancini and Namath and his long profile of De La Hoya) - Hugh McIlvanney - Thomas Hauser (BEFORE he became an HBO shill) - Ron Borges - Thomas Jay - Pete Hamill (see his writing on Cus D'Amato) - Jay Kang (mainly writes basketball, but occasionally does boxing) - Greg Bishop Read any of these guys and you'll understand the difference between Dan Rafael and a writer.

I have a poster of him. That fat fuk wouldn't fit on a poster Do you mean you have Dan Raphael wallpaper?

Wow, I thought I was the only one that found the guy as lucky to have his Job. The only thing he has is the highest know sports reporting entity as his employer. But his favoritism, is constantly on display. I've been blocked from him on twitter because I pointed out some of his flaws. Man I remember when he was jocking Lucas Matthysse, before the Danny Garcia fight. Boy did he look stupid with some of his commentary.

He's alright. A little unprofessional at times, but on the other hand, would we rather have an insider who doesn't talk to the fans at all? I can understand where he's coming from. A lot of sports fans, and boxing fans in particular, are extremely biased. Answering the same loaded BS question day after day is probably very frustrating. Definitely agree that he should lose some weight, not for the sake of his health, but for the sake of the sport. I'm all for equality in the world, but it would be much better if someone who repesents the sport (as a writer) actually looks like he belongs.

I have a poster of him.

He is no expert, and really is no better than your average poster here on NSb.. His only value is that he works for espn so he gets a lot of the inside scoops

"He always seems to be in Twitter beef with someone. And it seems like he has turned on Canelo, lol" He talks sooooo much ****

He always seems to be in Twitter beef with someone. And it seems like he has turned on Canelo, lol.