Dan Rafael New HBO Match Maker / Is HBO Promoting without a license?

[ElTerribleMorales]

HBO is a network that deals with promoters, predominantly Goldenboy as of late.

Surprised fat fuck got hired to do a real job inside of boxing.

Funny, that's the same thing I was thinking, why would HBO hire someone like Dan Rafael, who isn't really qualified, to be a match maker.. it doesn't make sense.

Why is he not qualified? He knows the sport better then any other human being.

Also the promoters aren't promoters anymore. With a few exceptions, all they do is wait for premium cable money (HBO and Showtime) so that they do not have to take any financial risk of their own. It is the reason that there are less and less fighters with local followings.

THe Money that HBO and SHowtime pay, is so so so much greater then what they could earn, putting on untelivised cards like in the old days, that no promoter wants to take any risks.

I disagree.

The man has clearly never put on a pair of gloves and boxed himself. He's the antithesis of what an athlete or fighter is.

Easy to look smart when the man picks the odds on favorite EVERY SINGLE TIME.

He's an avid Klitschko worshipper, never picks the underdog, never says anything really insightful or original.

He's great at covering the sport and getting breaking news before anyone else. He surely has a lot of contacs within boxing and is well liked. But he doesn't KNOW boxing better than anyone else alive.

i agree, i mean he's good at what he does which is reporting about the sport and i'm sure he'd make a decent analyst but only reason i think he'd make an ok match maker is due to the contacts he has

This has GOT to be a joke. I mean Dan does a fine job reporting things he is told, but a boxing expert he isn't. He hasn't the vaguest idea how styles mash or clash he has no idea how a fighter should be brought along etc. I mean a matchmaker ought to have a serious background in the sport. Dan has none.

exactly, i mean he's good at what he already does, he shouldn't be trying to prod himself into jobs he's not qualified for, hell i'd rather have Teddy fucking Atlas get the job over Rafael

Teddy or Kevin Rooney or Joe Goosen (if he wanted the job) or Al Bernstein (if we're going the press route) or stealing the younger guy who helps out in this function at Showtime or how about an old warhorse like Manny Steward working part time training a young guy with an interest in doing this for a decade?

well isn't Rooney now training his son full time? they should just put Jones in charge, hell the more work they give him on HBO the less he'll fight probably