ESPN Dan Rafael live chat

[mrpain81]

No Chat or Notebook today???

Ghey

[mrpain81]

Double post

[oc9979]

i cant see the chat?? where on the page is it?

[cupcrazy01]

No Chat or Notebook today???

Ghey

He had his chat yesterday and rarely posts a notebook on a holiday weekend.

The chat wrap is on ESPN's boxing page, but for some reason Rafael's responses to most of the questions (until the very end of the chat) are omitted from the transcript. Weird, and very frustrating...this has been happening for a month or so, ever since they changed their chat software.

[BOOMbip]

BOOMbip: Dan you have the features of an old and wise manatee ...Why is this?



Dan Rafeal: ***(breathes heavly and falls asleep)))


BOOMbip: Mr. Rafeal apparently you have a fully dressed and bunned hot dog sticking out of your shirts breast pocket...would you like me to throw that out.


Dan Rafeal: ***wakes up looks at hot dog...makes febile attempt to grab it...gives up and falls back asleep)))

I don't give a *** I make myself laugh.

[βetamax]

The guy is pretty overweight. I've stood right beside him at the last couple of fights I've been at. It's funny, he just looks like some guy that works in the computer department of Best Buy. I just say to myself: "This is the guy that people in the boxing world regard so highly?

But seriously, he's alright guy and I like reading what he has to say.

[Derranged_]

Get your questions in today- it starts at 12:30 ET. I'm going to ask him about the Atlas-Povetkin partnership and if Alex will take a tuneup fight before Klitschkio and against who...

[TheSurgeonMDMPH]

That FAT *** will answer the questions that are politically correct.

[Derranged_]

James (Boston)

Hey Dano, I've been hearing that your colleague Teddy Atlas is training Alexander Povetkin and will (AP) take a tuneup before the Klitschko fight. Why procrastinate the title shot? I say- take the shot now because there are no guarantees that you'll get another one (due injuries, politics, whatever). What's your opinion? and do you know what opponents Team Povetkin is considering?...

Dan Rafael

There has been some mention of him possibly being on the Sept. 19 PPV undercard but nothing is firm.

Dan Rafael

Teddy is training Povetkin and he is taking a tuneup because the mandatory won't happen until December most likely. Povetkin's opponent is TBA but I promise you it won't be anyone too tough.

[Derranged_]

Tunney, is this you?


jcs (Winnipeg)

Can you explain to me why Wladimir is nowhere on your top 20 p4p list? the guy makes a habit of retiring fighters and has been pretty damn dominant.

Dan Rafael

P4P is way to compare everyone else, in part, to the heavyweight champion. I would only rate a heavyweight if he was so obviously the best fighter in boxing.