Video: Mike Alvarado Vows To Avenge Rios TKO Defeat
Ryan Burton catches up with junior welterweight contender Mike Alvarado, who promised to get revenge in his upcoming rematch with Brandon Rios.
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Rios Alvarado Rematch: page 4
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Video: Robert Garcia Breaks Down Rios-Alvarado II
Ryan Burton catches up with trainer Robert Garcia to break down the rematch between Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado.
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Video: Shann Vilhauer Discusses Alvardo vs. Rios II
Ryan Burton catches up with Shann Vilhauer, trainer of Mike Alvarado, to discuss the rematch with Brandon Rios.
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Brandon Rios Working With Angel Heredia For Alvarado
Unbeaten junior welterweight contender Brandon Rios has added embattled strength and conditioning coach Angel Heredia to his training camp in preparation for his bout on Saturday against Mike Alvarado, Rios advised BoxingScene.com. Rios will be taking on Alvarado in an anticipated rematch for an interim world title belt at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. In their first bout, Rios stopped Alvarado in the seventh round of a very close fight that saw a tremendous ebb and flow between the two Mexican-American fighters. Heredia came to work with Rios earlier this year and has been staying in the Oxnard area, where Rios lives and trains. Prior to working with Rios, Heredia was the strength and conditioning coach of Juan Manuel Marquez leading up to Marquez’s third and fourth fights against Manny Pacquiao. Aside from being known for working with professional boxers, Heredia has been embroidered in controversy prior to working with Marquez and now Rios. Heredia admitted that he provided performance enhancement drugs to Olympic sprinter Marion Jones and was a government witness in the BALCO case against Victor Conte.
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Photos: Rios, Alvarado, Crawford, Prescott Open Workouts
On Wednesday afternoon, the Top Rank Gym in Las Vegas, Nevada played host to a media day ahead of the highly-anticipated rematch between Brandon Rios (31-0, 23 KO’s) and Mike Alvarado (33-1, 23 KO’s). Rios-Alvarado II takes place this Saturday night from the Mandalay Bay Events Center, with HBO televising the proceedings. Also on the card, Columbian puncher Breidis Prescott (26-4, 20 KO’s) will face off with late replacement Terence Crawford (19-0, 15 KO’s) in an intriguing junior welterweight attraction while 2012 Olympian Jose Ramirez (1-0, 1 KO) will see action off TV.
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Alvarado Says Cuts Won't Affect Him in Rios Rematch
His rematch with Brandon Rios won’t start until Saturday night, but Mike Alvarado already has multiple cuts on his face. A source close to the situation confirmed that Alvarado’s involvement in an altercation away from boxing in early February left the junior welterweight with three cuts on the lower part of his right cheek and another longer laceration down the right side of his neck, near his Adam’s apple. The cuts sustained during that incident obviously weren’t bad enough to force the postponement of his rematch against Rios and his handlers don’t expect those wounds to affect his performance Saturday night at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas (HBO; 10:15 p.m. ET/7:15 p.m. PT).
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Bradley Praises Crawford, Says Rios-Alvarado is 50-50
WBO welterweight champion Tim Bradley will be ringside for Saturday's rematch between Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado. The first Rios-Alvarado clash was one of the top Fight of the Year candidates of 2012. The rematch will likely be a candidate for 2013 FOTY honors along with Bradley's scintillating March 16th victory over Ruslan Provodnikov. Bradley appeared on this week's edition of BoxingScene Radio and gave his assessment of the upcoming fight.
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Rios-Alvarado: The Challenge To Top Bradley-Provodnikov
By Jake Donovan - From the moment it was announced that Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado would once again square off, the first question that came to mind was how they could possibly surpass their first fight. The two waged war for as long as they could absorb, with Rios surging ahead and finally stopping Alvarado in the seventh round of their Oct. ’12 fight many tabbed as the year’s best. The thinking was that matching or outdoing what they accomplished five months ago would be a surefire way to land Fight of the Year honors in 2013. But two weeks after Tim Bradley survived a knockdown and numerous scares to barely top Ruslan Provodnikov, it’s possible that nothing Rios and Alvarado can offer in their sequel would even land the rematch as the best fight of the month. “I was watching the fight at home. I was almost jumping on the TV watching that fight. It brought back memories,” admits Rios (31-0, 22KO), as good an authority as any on the art of savage wars. “I was like ‘Damn, they are showing the warrior spirit.’ They were going at it. Like they said, Bradley came out with a different game plan and he proved that he’s a warrior and a fighter.”
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Rios, Alvarado Praise Bradley's Warrior Performance
The two boxers certain to challenge the Timothy Bradley-Ruslan Provodnikov slugfest for “Fight of the Year” honors really appreciated their memorable brawl Saturday night. “I was watching the fight at home,” said Brandon Rios, who’ll meet Mike Alvarado in a highly anticipated junior welterweight rematch March 30 in Las Vegas. “I was almost jumping on the TV watching that fight. It brought back memories. I was like, ‘Damn! They are showing their warrior spirit. They were going at it. Like they said, Bradley came out with a different game plan and he proved that he’s a warrior and a fighter.”
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Brandon Rios-Mike Alvarado Rematch: 1,500 Tickets Left
Top Rank's CEO BOB ARUM: Tickets are selling extremely well and we are very pleased with that. There are only approximately 1,500 tickets left. We are selling 60 or 70 a day so I am pretty sure we will have a sellout by fight time. There is one bit of advice I want to give both fighters – nobody smoke a joint – wait till after the fight is over. Brandon Rios-Mike Alvarado II, a rematch of their 2012 Fight of the Year-nominated fight and one of the greatest fights of the 21st Century, will take place, Saturday, March 30, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nev. The 12-round World Boxing Organization (WBO) interim junior welterweight championship rumble will be televised live on HBO Boxing After Dark®, beginning at 10:15 p.m. ET/PT.
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