Dan Rafael chat wrap 6/27:
- Crawford moving up to 140 after this fight. His team doesn't want to test the waters, want to jump in and start fighting good fighters and get a 140 lb strap.
prolly wants algieri next
- Picking Crawford to beat Gamboa (on points). Gamboa is a monster talent...he is just hasn't shown all his potential yet.
- Judge Lisa Giampa is married to Chuck Giampa who works for Golden Boy owned Ring Magazine. Lisa Giampa should not have been appointed to Loma-GRJ as she has a vested interest in GB. She scored it 114-114.
- Ruslan and Bradley will not fight in the Fall, if they schedule a rematch.
- Kathy Duva's suit against Al Haymon is arguing that Haymon acts as a manager/advisor and promoter, which he is not allowed to take part in promoter activities.
- Porter-Brook is still on...eta expected to be 9/6.
- Fury-Chisora winner will be the mandatory for Wlad.
- Rigo-Loma isn't a guaranteed fight. More likely options for Loma (due to popularity and more financial incentive) are Donaire, Gradovich, and Walters.
- Doesn't think a Cotto-Bradley fight gets made.
- Kirkland is nowhere to be found right now in mentions to when he will fight next...leaving Clottey as a name being thrown around for Andrade's next opponent.
- He does not blame Garcia or Peterson for the 8/9 cards. They have proven to take fights vs. anyone. He blames Showtime and their advisors (Haymon) for being the ones who actually negotiated and sold the fight.
- Talked to Broner recently. Waiting to hear what his date is for the Fall. No word on opponents. Fight will be at 140.
- Canelo-Angulo did in the 300 k's for buys. Due to the glut of recent PPV's and that Lara has a smaller fan base than Angulo he expects this PPV to have less buys.
- Chris Algieri is not being seriously considered for Pacquiao's next fight.
- GB has reached out to Jhonny Gonzalez about defending against Ronny Rios in the Fall.
- Felt Guerrero's fight was entertaining, but Guerrero was not very impressive.
- Arum is mentioning that Rios-Alvarado 3 could take place this fall or early next year.
- Hopkins-Stevenson have not started negotiations yet.
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Depending on your market this weekend is a free preview for HBO and Cinemax. No struggle streams for those without.
- Sergio Mora told him that he made a mistake not taking the Jermain Taylor fight when it was offered.
- Abner Mares is now being trained by Virgil Hunter
- Mike Tyson's ratings on HBO cable fights got ratings over 10 million viewers. (I found this
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/19/sports/tv-sports-it-s-tyson-or-nothing-for-free-tv.html 
)
- Ali-Spinks 2 in 1978 on ABC had 90 million viewers.
- Sergio Martinez was checked out after the fight and the report was there was no damage to his knee.
- Koborov is on the undercard tomorrow and HBO is trying to invest in more MW fights because they are trying to find more opponents for GGG.