Dan Rafael

Hi #FightFreaks! I'm proud to announce the launch of my #boxing newsletter/website called "Fight Freaks Unite"!! Please go here and sign up and it will be emailed to you regularly: danrafael.substack.com/welcome Tell your boxing friends to check it out and subscribe! Please enjoy!

New podcast! My interview with @Benavidez300 ahead of challenging unified cruiserweight titlist Zurdo Ramirez + recaps of #WhittakerSuarez, #BaumgardnerShin, update on Shadasia Green condition; @ConorNigel's new deal with Zuffa, @210bam moving up to challenge for 118 title & his new @MatchroomBoxing deal, more news of the week. Listen, rate, subscribe, enjoy! spreaker.com/episode/alycia… #boxing

Scarce thin cardboard site poster in my #boxing collection from when the great @terencecrawford easily stopped Amir Khan in rd 7 to retain the WBO 147 title on a card that also included @ShakurStevenson, @TeofimoLopez, @EdgarBerlangaJr & @BroncoAdames, which I covered at ringside -- 7 years ago today.

Scarce site poster in my #boxing collection from when the great @Canelo dropped and outpointed then-undefeated Austin Trout to unify junior middleweight world titles & win the vacant @ringmagazine title -- 13 years ago today. @CANELOTEAM

Extremely rare site poster that hung in MGM Grand light box during fight week in my #boxing collection from when Floyd Mayweather won the WBC lightweight title from Jose Luis Castillo in their controversial 1st fight, which many had Castillo winning (I had it a draw) -- 24 years ago today. @wbcmoro

@DanRafael1 @Benavidez300 @ConorNigel @210bam Great interview ! but i don't believe Benavidez should go back down in weight after this fight. i would like to see him fight @jaiopetaia1 next

Site poster in my #boxing collection from when the great @holyfield W12 late fellow HOF legend George Foreman to retain the undisputed heavyweight title a terrific fight. It was one of the biggest fights of the 1990s & the 1st fight in modern PPV history -- 35 yrs ago today. @MarkTaffetMedia

Good news, we’re not the Mets

Scarce site poster in my #boxing collection from when the great @terencecrawford scored three knockdowns and stopped Thomas Dulorme in rd 6 to win the vacant WBO junior welterweight title for a title in his 2nd division -- 11 years ago today.

#Boxing Notebook: danrafael.substack.com/p/notebook-ben… -- @ConorNigel signs 5-fight deal with @Zuffa_Boxing; @RyanGarcia likely up 1st; @210bam moving up to fight for 118 title; @BenGWhittaker plans to ‘dust’ Suarez; flyweight great Miguel Canto dies; #FosterFord official; Quick hits; Show & tell. Read & sign up for my newsletter! @danawhite @connolly005

Lani Daniels TKO9 Shadasia Green in a major upset to win the women's WBO/IBF women's 168 title in the MVP co-feature. Green is in bad shape in the ring. She will be taken out on a stretcher. Not clear what the specific issue is yet. #boxing

Extremely limited run glossy HBO poster in my #boxing collection from when @maravillabox, who deserves to be in the HOF, beat Kelly Pavlik to win the middleweight championship in a fight I was ringside to cover -- 16 years ago today. @loudibella @SampsonBoxing

New podcast! Previews of #BaumgardnerShin card, #WhittakerSuarez + tons of news: Ryan Garcia-Conor Benn talks; Fury-Joshua update; #FosterFord, #KeyshawnAlbright fights set; more! Listen, rate, subscribe, enjoy! spreaker.com/episode/alycia… #boxing

@chrisrobwill Ahem.

Will be keeping a beady eye on and calling out the 99%* of boxing media that was complicit or fawning of Kinahan. *not Tris Dixon, Matt Christie or Don MacRae

Daniel Kinahan arrested in Dubai over serious organised crime bbc.in/4tivKBZ

ICYMI #boxing

@ryanandrews18 Wouldn’t rare as a real “feud”

@DanRafael1 It’s been like a year now Dan