Dan Rafael chat wrap 2/24:
- Wilder will absolutely fight the top guys eventually. He is anxious to do so. Hopeful to see him to fight Parker later this year.
- Wilder's fight plan (if everything works out) would be to beat Washington, fight Parker in the summer, and the Joshua-Klitschko winner at the end of the year.
- Washington is a terrific athlete, appears to be in good shape, and a helluva good dude, but it is hard to pick against Wilder.
- Wilder by KO.
- Not sure why so many people dislike Wilder. He has given people no real reason to dislike him.
- A Joshua vs. Wilder fight would be huge.
- Alvarez vs. Bute? Has not been overly impressed with Alvarez, but he should win this fight.
- The all Ukraine April 8th show has A-side fighters who are fun to watch, unfortunately their opponents aren't great.
- Unlikely Pacquiao fights in April.
- Pacquiao vs. Khan really depends on how much money can actually be generated to pay the fighters.
- Crawford should not fight Granados. Granados just came off a tough grueling fight. Crawford would beat him easily. Crawford should fight Diaz.
- Arum wants Crawford's next fight to be in NY, maybe NJ. Would prefer not to be in Omaha.
- The holdup in Crawford vs. Diaz is that HBO is looking for cheaper, lower level opponents than they should be putting on.
- Thinks the Canelo and JCC purse bet was a PR move and not real.
- Mikey Garcia probably will have an early summer fight on Showtime.
- No concern should be necessary about Danny Jacobs making weight.
- Picking GGG by KO.
- GGG vs. BJS is still being discussed for the summer in Kazhakstan.
- If GGG beat Jacobs and BJS, some people would consider GGG the lineal champ.
- A little surprised Mayweather wasn't at the Broner fight.
- Had Broner winning 96-94.
- Boxing is having a good run: Jack-DeGale, Thurman-Garcia, GGG-Jacobs, Canelo-Chavez, Joshua-Klitschko, even Hurd-Harrison.
- Per Espinoza, GRJ March 11 fight is going to be on Showtime.
- If Garcia vs. Thurman had 4 million viewers that would be a massive audience.
- Nothing going on with Tim Bradley.
- Vargas wants a Bradley rematch, but Bradley is not interested. Not a lot of money in that fight.
- Thought the ref handled the Browne vs. Williams late punch properly.
- Stevenson is fighting Monaghan April 29 in Long Island.
- Joe Smith and his team is to blame for not fighting Stevenson.
- Gilberto Ramirez was supposed to fight in April on the Pacquiao undercard, but that could change with the Pacquiao fight changing.
- Canelo's top purses? He made more than $10 million for fighting Mayweather and Cotto.
- Mosley vs. Crawford in their primes? Mosley.
- Not interested in Rosado vs. Murray.
- Interested in seeing Izuagbe Ugonoh fight.