Garcia Not Ruling Out Brandon Rios KO of Alvarado

By Miguel Rivera

Robert Garcia, trainer of Brandon Rios, is not concerned with the recent legal issues connected to Mike Alvarado. Rios and Alvarado will trade shots for a third time on January 24th in Colorado. Their first fight took place in October 2012, with Rios getting a seventh round stoppage of Alvarado in a war. The rematch took place in March of 2013. This time Alvarado boxed instead of slugged and won a unanimous decision.

"We believe that Alvarado will want to fight in the same way that he did in the last fight with Brandon. He's going to want to box, but I have been working hard on head movements with Brandon, we've been working on how to cut off the ring. I have no doubt [Brandon] will win and a knockout would not surprise me," Garcia told ESPN Deportes.