Since 2000, award-winning reporter Dan Rafael has covered boxing full time and been ringside for thousands of fights, first for five years at USA Today and then for 15 years at ESPN, where he wrote and appeared on various television, radio and streaming programs. In 2013, Dan was honored by the Boxing Writers Association of America with the Nat Fleischer award for career excellence in boxing journalism. Dan brings his great insight to the Big Fight Weekend site, podcast and more!
LAS VEGAS — Mario Barrios dropped Yordenis Ugas twice, busted up his surgically repaired right eye and won…
LAS VEGAS — Miami-based Cuban heavyweight contender Frank Sanchez stopped Scott Alexander, at the end of the fourth…
OXON HILL, Md. — Junior welterweight up-and-comer Gary Antuanne Russell barely broke a sweat blowing away Kent Cruz…
Junior welterweight Rances Barthelemy won a majority decision over Omar Juarez to bounce back from a knockout loss…
Junior welterweights Kenneth Sims Jr. and Batyr Akhmedov slugged it out in a tremendous battle that Sims, whose…
LAS VEGAS- Gervonta “Tank” Davis didn’t break Ryan Garcia’s jaw as he promised during the lead up to…
Las Vegas Nevada- David Morrell Jr., who wants to fight a big-name super middleweight next, made his case…
Saturday night’s win in Minnesota by Subriel Matias for the vacant IBF junior welterweight title was not without…
Former unified women’s junior lightweight titlist Mikaela Mayer is moving up to the lightweight division for her next…
In an all-out battle that surely will be a contender for fight of the year honors, Luis Nery…