Dan Rafael has been let go by ESPN

[powerpuncher]

Yes good riddance, he was useless and an annoying fat fuck imo.. Also grated me that he was so quick to rag on fighters when he would have died of cardiac arrest trying to do any kind of athletic endeavour.

Does he have any sort of athletic background? It certainly seem like he doesn’t. Not just by the looks of him but also how he speaks about fighters. He doesn’t write like he understands exercise and the motivation it takes.

[Spicoli]

I dunno, I didn't mind either Fat Dan or Max. Though Dan def comes off as more a bloviating suit trying to bury his nose in the cheeks of the party line or favs and disregarding anything else. Never really put much stock into disliking him as if I disagreed or thought it nutty I just stopped reading. I'll admit to apparently being one of the few who like Max more. Sure he's a wide eyed dork glued to stat books, maybe takes 'stories' as cemented historical facts and repeats himself but he goes way back and earned his way through. I just wonder if this is another step off the ESPN boxing front. Fat Dan was fat, probably smells like burned sausage and glued to a script but kept some wheels turning on dates, events etc. Just hope ESPN doesn't try to feed in some Ufc/boxing blend 'journalist'. They can do both.