Brandon Rios: record, next fight and profile →
After quickly changing his mind on retiring after his disastrous loss to Tim Bradley in November, it was revealed that former world champion Brandon Rios (33-3-1, 24KOs) would be continuing his career without long-time trainer Robert Garcia in his corner. Rios has gone 2-3 in his last five appearances in the ring.
In the immediate wake of his ninth round stoppage at the hands of WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley on November 7th at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas, Brandon Rios announced his retirement from boxing.
Former world champion Brandon Rios (33-3-1, 24KOs), 29-years-old, has promised to train correctly and bring his best in future fights. Rios has lost three of his last five bouts. Last December he suffered his first knockout defeat to WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley. Rios failed to make weight and had to dig deep to make the division limit. Once he entered the ring, he looked out of shape and had little in the tank.
After his humiliating knockout loss at the hands of Timothy Bradley on November 7th, Brandon 'Bam Bam' Rios abruptly announced his retirement from the sport inside the ring of the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas, as he spoke to HBO's Max Kellerman. Well this being boxing, Rios has quickly changed course and will resume his career.
WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (33-1-1, 13KOs) made a big statement on Saturday night, when he knocked out Brandon Rios in nine rounds at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. It was the first knockout defeat of Rios' career and his third defeat in his last five fights. At only 29-years-old, Rios announced his retirement at Saturday's post-fight press conference.
Timothy Bradley Jr. was an unstoppable force in the ring on Saturday, tearing through Brandon Rios en route to a 9th round knockout at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. As it turned out, his only competition that evening would come from the beast that is SEC (Southeastern Conference) college football. The HBO-televised main event fell prey to the highest-rated college football game of 2015, with #4 Alabama's 30-16 win over second-ranked LSU drawing over 11.1 million viewers on CBS. The game more than doubled the average viewership of Saturday evening primetime college football viewership. The HBO World Championship Boxing headliner took a hit has a result, but still managing to draw an average of 910,000 viewers. The bout peaked at 1.026 million viewers.
Former junior welterweight champion Ruslan Provodnikov (25-4, 18KOs) was very surprised that Brandon Rios got knocked out on Saturday night by WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley. Provodnikov fought Bradley in a "Fight of The Year" war in 2013. Bradley was hurt several times, went down in the twelfth and won a very close twelve round unanimous decision.
There are certain fighters who stand out, at least in part, for one of those attributes never appreciated enough. Speed, power…those are components one can be born with. Learning to utilize them takes hours of time in the gym. For the truly blessed, they remain even if one elects to coast a little. Some fighters just never seem to coast. Bernard Hopkins and Wladimir Klitschko come to mind. Neither was (or is) consistently thrilling but they can boast of uncommon longevity. Without the physical blessings, it wouldn’t matter. They had to have the tools. What they did with them comes down to one word:
This past Saturday night, Teddy Atlas made his debut as the new trainer of WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (33-1-1, 13KOs). Their paring got off to a very explosive start, with Bradley picking up his first knockout victory since 2011. At the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Bradley scored two knockdowns in the ninth round to stop Brandon Rios.
Timothy Bradley battered Brandon Rios en route to a ninth-round technical knockout on Saturday in a lopsided welterweight bout that had a dejected Rios announcing his retirement. </p> <p>Bradley retained his World Boxing Organization world title, improving to 33-1-1 with 13 wins inside the distance with the triumph at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.</p> <p>Fighting for the first time under the guidance of trainer Teddy Atlas, Bradley was quick and aggressive against a challenger who struggled to make the 147-pound weight limit.</p> <p>Bradley, 32, was fast off the mark, landing a series of combinations in a big first round.