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!
Heavyweight contender Filip Hrgovic pulled out a close decision victory over Zhang Zhilei in a grinding, grueling and…
Soon after Oleksandr Usyk unanimously outpointed Anthony Joshua in an upset last September in Joshua’s hometown of London…
Three-division champion Vasiliy Lomachenko, the former pound-for-pound king, is back on American soil to begin training in earnest…
In the co-feature of Saturday night’s Top Rank Boxing/ESPN card in Las Vegas, junior middleweight prospect Xander Zayas…
After a difficult nine months, and coming off his first professional loss, former unified lightweight world champion Teofimo…
In a showdown that rekindles memories of their famous fathers engaging in two thrilling world title fights that…
In May, junior bantamweight champion Juan Francisco Estrada and secondary titlist Joshua Franco signed for a WBA mandatory…
A deal for a unification fight between three-belt welterweight titlist Errol Spence Jr. and titleholder Terence Crawford for…
Lightweight contenders Joseph “JoJo” Diaz and William Zepeda will meet in a 12-round fight that will headline a…
Off the weekend that saw two prominent contenders win their main events in Texas and Ireland, we’re back…