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“Nobody thought I would make it as far as I did” -Brandon Rios Following a KO loss to Timothy Bradley this past Saturday night in Las Vegas, 29 year-old Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios announced his retirement. A body shot put Rios down in the ninth round and while he was...
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WBO welterweight world champion Timothy Bradley (33-1-1, 13 KOs) defended his title by breaking down Brandon Rios (33-3-1, 24 KOs) en route to a ninth round TKO on Saturday night at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. While Rios stalked and tried to cut off the ring,...
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Earlier today Timothy Bradley scaled in at 146 lbs. for his welterweight clash with Brandon Rios who came in .2 lbs. over the 147 limit. According to reports, Rios was given an hour to drop the excess weight and has now made weigh. Timothy Bradley Jr. vs. Brandon Rios is a...
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Photo: Mikey Williams/Top Rank Two-division world champion TIMOTHY “Desert Storm” BRADLEY JR. and former world champion BRANDON “Bam Bam” RIOS, both who have fought in Fights of the Year in 2013 and 2012, respectively, will collide for Bradley’s World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight world championship crown in an all-Southern...
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Photo: Chris Farina/Top Rank It was no where near the bloody slugfest we had all hoped for. Instead, in their third meeting, a well prepared Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios brutally beat down “Mile High” Mike Alvarado in his own backyard. It didn’t take long for Rios (33-2-1, 24 KOs)...
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Saturday’s HBO Boxing After Dark doubleheader telecast begins at 9:45 p.m. (ET/PT). The HBO telecast kicks off live from 1STBANK Center, located in the Denver suburb of Broomfield, CO., when light heavyweights Gilberto Ramirez and Maxim Vlasov square off for 10 rounds. The main event of the evening, a...
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According to reports, the 1stBank Center in Bloomfield Colorodo will host “World War 3: Brandon Rios vs. Mike Alvarado” on January 24, 2015. The two undefeated fighters first met in October 2012 at the Home Depot Center in Carson Ca. and after seven brutal rounds, Rios stopped Alvarado. Six...
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Tonights’s Boxing After Dark split-site telecast begins at 9:45 p.m. (ET/PT) kicking off from The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. In the opening bout, Jessie Vargas (24-0, 9 KOs) squares off against Anton Novikov (29-0, 10 KOs) in a 12-round super lightweight title fight. The evening’s main...
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Former world lightweight champion and pound-for-pound all-action fighter BRANDON “Bam Bam” RIOS of Oxnard, Calif. makes his eagerly-anticipated 2014 debut when he takes on one-time interim world champion DIEGO “La Joya” CHAVES of Buenos Aires, in a 10-round welterweight battle, Saturday, August 2, in The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan...