Dan Raphael has 0 credibility as a boxing journalist.

[Iceta]

I got on his After Dark chat on ESPN last night and he implied that a rematch between Cotto and Mosley is not an absolute necessity. He was giving everybody the impression that a fight with Pac between one of those guys would be better. Now I thought that ESPN's boxing section was a big advocate of the Ring Magazine Championship policy. But this statement by Dan has totally contradicted that.

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[letsgobrady]

i never thought dan raphael had any credibility his perspective is of a casual fan not of a hardcore boxing fan so what he says mean nothing to me

[Iceta]

i never thought dan raphael had any credibility his perspective is of a casual fan not of a hardcore boxing fan so what he says mean nothing to me

Yeah, to me it's douchebags like him being part of the problem. If we could eliminate people with his attitude, we wouldn't be getting sham fights like Floyd Mayweather vs. Oscar De La Hoya and Roy Jones vs. Joe Calzaghe. He's even acted like there's nothing wrong with a fight between Sergio Mora and Kelly Pavlik and Jermain Taylor and Cory Spinks.

[Doctor_Tenma]

Yeah, to me it's douchebags like him being part of the problem. If we could eliminate people with his attitude, we wouldn't be getting sham fights like Floyd Mayweather vs. Oscar De La Hoya and Roy Jones vs. Joe Calzaghe. He's even acted like there's nothing wrong with a fight between Sergio Mora and Kelly Pavlik and Jermain Taylor and Cory Spinks.

Now that is a serious problem.

[Pullcounter]

I got on his After Dark chat on ESPN last night and he implied that a rematch between Cotto and Mosley is not an absolute necessity. He was giving everybody the impressioon that a fight with Pac between one of those guys would be better. Now I thought that ESPN's boxing section was a big advocate of the Ring Magazine Championship policy. But this statement by Dan has totally contradicted that.

cotto/mosley has to happen to find out who is the WW champ.

i think dan really thinks pac is a WW... he's not he's a jr WW.

[Ray*]

All of them are fanboys, Dan Raphael, doug fischer, G.Leon etc they're all fan boys with Zero credibility.

[The Hammer]

Dan Raphael is MUCH more knowlegeable and more objective than the idiot writers at The Ring like Dettloff, Goldman, Raskin and Rosenthal.

And he's a lot better than TV commentators Teddy Atlas and Max Kellerman. I'd like to see Raphael replace Kellerman, that would be good for the sport of boxing.

[rj_ct]

Yeah, to me it's douchebags like him being part of the problem. If we could eliminate people with his attitude, we wouldn't be getting sham fights like Floyd Mayweather vs. Oscar De La Hoya and Roy Jones vs. Joe Calzaghe. He's even acted like there's nothing wrong with a fight between Sergio Mora and Kelly Pavlik and Jermain Taylor and Cory Spinks.

it's his job to report on the fights, not necessarily to offer his opinion.

And he's a lot better than TV commentators Teddy Atlas and Max Kellerman. I'd like to see Raphael replace Kellerman, that would be good for the sport of boxing.

i disagree with that. teddy has some credibility in the world of boxing in that he was an amateur fighter, and professional trainer. and i've been watching boxing for a long time, and i still don't see what the problem is with kellerman. his comparisons to old fighters are a stretch sometimes, but i generally think he brings up valid points.

[warp1432]

Dan Raphael is MUCH more knowlegeable and more objective than the idiot writers at The Ring like Dettloff, Goldman, Raskin and Rosenthal.

And he's a lot better than TV commentators Teddy Atlas and Max Kellerman. I'd like to see Raphael replace Kellerman, that would be good for the sport of boxing.

Out of the names you listed, only Raskin (who isn't as bad I thought) and Atlas are terrible. Fisher is terrible too, but you didn't list him.