By Keith Idec

Brandon Rios isn’t fazed by Internet and Las Vegas sports books listing Timothy Bradley as a 5-1 favorite over him.

None of that will matter, according to the 29-year-old Rios (33-2-1, 24 KOs), once the bell rings to start their 12-round fight for Bradley’s WBO welterweight title Saturday night at UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas (HBO; 9:30 p.m. ET).

“I don’t really care about all that bullsh-t,” Rios, of Oxnard, California, said during a conference call Wednesday. “To me, that’s just I think bullsh-t. All I’m ready for [is] the fight. I can be 10-1. I can be whatever. I can be the lowest number. I can be negative zero. That don’t really bother me. As long as I come out and perform that night and show the best I can give, it doesn’t matter to me. So all this underdog bullsh-t doesn’t bother me. It doesn’t bother me at all. It is what it is. People can say what they wanna say, think what they wanna think. It’s all good.”

Keith Idec covers boxing for The Record and Herald News, of Woodland Park, N.J., and BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.