DENVER -- Denver's "Mile High" MIKE ALVARADO has promised to unload his bombs on BRANDON "Bam Bam" RIOS of Oxnard, Calif., on Saturday, January 24, at the 1STBANK Center, located in the Denver suburb of Broomfield, CO,  Alvarado-Rios 3 will be televised live on HBO,  beginning at 9:45 p.m. ET/PT. 

The last boxing event hosted by 1STBANK Center was sold out in advance -- the October 19, 2013 WBO junior welterweight world championship between Alvarado and Ruslan Provodnikov.

Alvarado (34-3, 23 KOs), and Rios (32-2-1, 22 KOs), who each own a victory in the series -- both of which were candidates for Fight of the Year in 2012 and 2013 -- discussed the upcoming  Alvarado-Rios 3, which is scheduled for 12 rounds with the vacant World Boxing Organization (WBO) International welterweight championship on the line. 

MIKE ALVARADO

”I feel great.  I know the kind of fight this will be.  He's going to try to cut off the ring and when he does, he'll open himself up and when he does that I will be cracking him.

"I will not fight his fight.  I am sticking to our plan.  But you can bet I will shoot the works when I have him in my sights.

"Brandon is right about one thing, it IS do or die for us   We are both the same person inside the ring and outside the ring."

"I have not allowed anything to distract me from my training.  I am focused and ready.

"Fighting Brandon Rios has and continues to be an honor.  This is a trilogy fans will remember for a very long time.  We are entertainers and our fight on January 24 will be the grand finale.  I intend to start the fireworks early in the fight."