#boxing Dan Rafael is the most important boxing journalist in the world, merely by dint of being the only full-time boxing correspondent at ESPN. He has access—to fighters, to promoters, to fans—that other writers could only imagine. He has 70,000 followers on Twitter; few other full-time boxing writers can claim more than 5,000 (Rafael's supremely talented ESPN.com colleague Kieran Mulvaney has fewer than 3,000).