Fat Dan hates and insults boxers because he is ........

[holmcall]

“What is about to go down Saturday night in Monterrey, Mexico, is everything that is wrong with boxing. Vivian Harris is going to fight. He is taking on Jorge Paez Jr. in a fight that should not be taking place…. Harris is a shot fighter. A badly shot fighter, who has not been a remote factor for about seven years.” –Dan Rafael March 17, 2014


Harris, of course, went on to beat Paez, Jr. on March 22 deep in the heart of Mexico.

just cause he works for ESPN doesn't mean he always has to be right. Harris, if were talking about the same one is shot. He got stopped by Ortiz not so long ago?

Yeh I'd give Fat Dan a well intentioned pass on that one. Harris was on a terrible run of shaky legs and being dropped and hurt by glancing punches. Watching him leaving on a stretcher and slurring was enough to hope he won the lottery and immediately retire. That was ugly stuff.

Good points and they are taken on Harris, but the way Dan went after him was cruel. And remember, the stretcher bit involved a head-butt--though probably even more damaging than a punch.


Check this cruel one out:


“Harris [is] a fighter that should be put down. If he were a horse, he’d either be taken to stud or the glue factory.”—Steve Kim of MaxBoxing


Rumor has it that Kim lives with his mother. If that's true, then that's all you need to know about this "macho man."




Two more quotes:


“#ESPN #boxing writer Dan Rafael says Vivian Harris should no longer be fighting. Based on Rafael’s own wisdom, Rafael shouldn’t be eating!” –Rick Glaser




“I cannot be the only one who finds something distasteful about suggesting a fighter is fit only for breeding or the glue factory, or describing him as “damaged goods”, especially when the writer professes a sanctimonious concern for the same fighter’s welfare. Nor can I be alone in detecting a whiff of condescension…” -Matthew J. Bailey http://therumpuscompass.com/tag/vivian-harris/

But Dan Rafael didn't say any of those things!!! Steve Kim did. Rick Glaser did. Matthew J. Bailey(who I suspect is you) did.

Are you really that dim that you continue your argument against Dan Rafael by providing cruel quotes from other people?!?!

“What is about to go down Saturday night in Monterrey, Mexico, is everything that is wrong with boxing. Vivian Harris is going to fight. He is taking on Jorge Paez Jr. in a fight that should not be taking place…. Harris is a shot fighter. A badly shot fighter, who has not been a remote factor for about seven years.” –Dan Rafael March 17, 2014

This was canned outrage” and “blind grandstanding” Sam Geraci of Fightnews said he could not understand “how any person with ethics can write something that harms the earning potential of a fighter without having verified information on why a fighter may have been denied a license in one region and granted one in another."