By Steve Kim

The last we saw of Brandon 'Bam Bam' Rios he was crushing the remnants of Mike Alvarado on January 24th. He's been dormant since but it looks like he has his next assignment from Top Rank.

"Well, I can't really talk about it till next week but you'll be pleasantly surprised and it'll be in your backyard," said the head of Top Rank, Bob Arum to BoxingScene.com on Wednesday afternoon.

(And for the record, this reporter is in Los Angeles and Arum did divulge that this fight would be the Forum in Inglewood, California.)

There had been talk of Rios facing Tim Bradley this fall but those talks died a couple of weeks ago as they were unable to come to terms with 'the Desert Storm', it's not clear if this fight has been revived.

And it look like this HBO broadcast will lead off with WBO featherweight titlist, Vasyl Lomachenko.

"Lomachenko will definitely return in the beginning of November and he will join Brandon Rios on the card," said Arum.

Steve Kim is the news editor for BoxingScene.com.