My interaction with Brandon Rios today

[Motofan]

Good on ya Rios. That's a great way to make a fan for life.

[-DSG-]

WAR Bam Bam!

[Hitman18]

Yea he definitely was really nice. Not only with fans, but I got to chill right next to them for a while, and hes really cool with his whole entourage. Just joking around with everyone and making everyone laugh. He seems just like anyone else, not with a chip on his shoulder or some stuck up celebrity. Everyone loves him and I became a much bigger fan after today.

On a side note, one of my idols, Israel Vasquez was walking back to the table and a group of people were in the way, so I seized the opportunity and just made a dumb little comment in spanish, "Just waiting for the people huh." And he laughed and said "Ya. What can i do?" So as he was now standing with me I asked him "How is everything? How are you" He said "Im doing good. Everythings good. Ive been thinking on maybe having 1 or 2 more fights to finish up my career but Im still thinking about it. We'll see what happens." We then went on to talk about whether he wanted to fight here or in Mexico and he said he would be happy with whatever. Then I let my starstruck-ness get the best of him and began telling him how I've been watching him since I was a kid and hes one of my favorite fighters. He told me thank you and we talked for a few more minutes. Even though he could have gone back to the table, he decided to talk with me a little bit more. We werent in the middle of a crowd or the media, we were just on the side talking one on one as if we were friends and it was one of the greatest moments of my life. Very down to earth. He went back to signing autographs and as he was finally leaving he came up to me and shook my hand and told me to take care. Great guy.

[BartBears]

Brandon is very cool dude and funny character

[ROSS CALIFORNIA]

I went and met Bam Bam, Israel Vasquez, Mikey Garcia, Joseph Diaz, and Steven Luevano. All really nice guys. Got to talk to my idol Vasquez for about 5 minutes and he is very down to earth.

Anyways, I had unfortunately brought black gloves and realized there was no where for them to really autograph on the black gloves with black sharpie. So they signed on the little gray part on the cuff links. When I finally got to Brandon he pulled out a big silver sharpie and signed big. Then he took a look and saw how small the others autographs were and said "you need better autographs. Hold on, Ay Mikey! Sign this glove again with the silver sharpie," then Mikey and Joseph signed big and Brandon gave me the glove back. Just as that happened Vasquez sat down next to Mikey and it was time for me to move on and leave as there was a big line. I asked Robert Garcia if there was any way for me to go a little backwards in line to get to Vasquez and Garcia told me to just go behind the table. Brandon saw this and said "Ya man just come back here," And he got up and moved so i could get next to El Magnifico and he signed. He was really friendly and personable with everyone. I was really impressed at how nice he was. I dont know if many other celebs or athletes would go out of their way for a fan. Just thought you guys should know how cool he was with me. Ill be rooting for him. BAM BAM

Great story, man. I'll be rooting for him as well.

[Bababoey970]

I met him last year he came to Colorado. He real chill and laid back. My guess he was around 155-160 lbs, were almost the exact size.

[kokingbill]

Hes a good guy. I think he got that bad wrap because he was in camp with Margarito when he was coming back from the loaded gloves, but thats not a reason not to like Rios. He seems like hes always looking to do good. Cool story. I remember when I was like 6 and didnt really know much about boxing other than my dad used to be a professional boxer. We were at a show and all kinds of media and fans were surrounding Joe Frazier. They were all talking and throwing questions at him. I was standing back from the crowd with my cousin. I was just curious. I didnt really know who Joe Frazier was-- It was 1993 and I was like 6 years old, but Joe just walked past all the cameras and people trying to get autographs, kind of ignoring them, and came up to me and started talking to me. I remember him looking down at me and asking me how I was doing and if I was excited to watch the show that was about to start. He talked to me for like over a minute and the crowd was kind of pissed that he was paying more attention to some little kid than them. He probably would have talked to me longer, but you can imagine how short of an attention span a 6 year old has haha.

[kokingbill]

I guess what I am trying to say is these moments mean something to people. You dont even have to be a celebrity, just going out of your way a little bit and not being a **** can make a lasting impression on someone. I remember Joe Frazier from when I was 6 and didnt even know who he was then.

[Juof]

I thought brandon came Across as a l)ick but thats a cool story i guess we dont know peoples true personalities

[FlatLine]

rios got comedy. the roach comments went too far but everyone makes mistakes