The Cruelest Sport » Brandon Rios http://thecruelestsport.com A Professional Boxing blog Fri, 17 May 2013 21:25:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Blood In, Blood Out: Mike Alvarado W12 Brandon Rios http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/03/31/blood-in-blood-out-mike-alvarado-w12-brandon-rios/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/03/31/blood-in-blood-out-mike-alvarado-w12-brandon-rios/#comments Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:20:54 +0000 Jimmy Tobin http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5505 **** Boxing is never better than when it delivers the unexpected. This is not to say that the expected cannot amaze, as was the case last October when junior welterweights Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado made experts of everyone in tearing into each other for seven brutal rounds before Rios broke Alvarado with a crushing [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/03/31/blood-in-blood-out-mike-alvarado-w12-brandon-rios/feed/ 0 With Mercy For The Dreaming: Brandon Rios-Mike Alvarado II Preview http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/03/29/with-mercy-for-the-dreaming-brandon-rios-mike-alvarado-ii-preview/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/03/29/with-mercy-for-the-dreaming-brandon-rios-mike-alvarado-ii-preview/#comments Sat, 30 Mar 2013 01:32:40 +0000 Carlos Acevedo http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5503 **** Some fighters never stop paying dues, even after they reach the grueling heights of a profession as pitiless and as nebulous as any in North America. For Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado—who brought a prizefight apocalypse into living rooms across the country last October when they assaulted each other over seven delirious rounds in [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/03/29/with-mercy-for-the-dreaming-brandon-rios-mike-alvarado-ii-preview/feed/ 0 Turning Screws: On Brandon Rios-Mike Alvarado II http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/02/02/turning-screws-on-brandon-rios-mike-alvarado-ii/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/02/02/turning-screws-on-brandon-rios-mike-alvarado-ii/#comments Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:21:49 +0000 Jimmy Tobin http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5424 **** Is it reductionist to say that the delightfully brutal contest waged by Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado was decided when Rios finally threw a straight right hand? Perhaps. But it took Rios six rounds to introduce this punch last October. Up to that point he had been able to fight Alvarado on even terms [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/02/02/turning-screws-on-brandon-rios-mike-alvarado-ii/feed/ 0 DAMAGE, INC. : Brandon Rios TKO7 Mike Alvarado http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/10/15/damage-inc-brandon-rios-tko7-mike-alvarado/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/10/15/damage-inc-brandon-rios-tko7-mike-alvarado/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:11:22 +0000 Carlos Acevedo http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5270 **** They forgot the Catherine Wheel, the strappado, and the whirligig, but Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado took turns torturing each other in medieval ways on Saturday night at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California. Rios emerged as the winner via 7th-round TKO after more than twenty minutes of GBH. There was a time [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/10/15/damage-inc-brandon-rios-tko7-mike-alvarado/feed/ 0 Mañana en la batalla: Brandon Rios vs. Mike Alvarado http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/10/15/manana-en-la-batalla-brandon-rios-vs-mike-alvarado/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/10/15/manana-en-la-batalla-brandon-rios-vs-mike-alvarado/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:44:07 +0000 Mauricio Salvador http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5267 **** “I know you fucking love it” Robert García, entrenador. Es difícil (por no decir inútil) intentar describir o incluso pretender dotar de sentido a los seis rounds que Brandon Ríos y Mike Alvarado disputaron este 13 de octubre en el Home Depot, en Carson, California. Lo que hacemos es acudir a ese repositorio lingüístico [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/10/15/manana-en-la-batalla-brandon-rios-vs-mike-alvarado/feed/ 0 WHITE KNUCKLES: Mike Alvarado-Brandon Rios Preview http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/10/11/white-knuckles-mike-alvarado-brandon-rios-preview/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/10/11/white-knuckles-mike-alvarado-brandon-rios-preview/#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:00:42 +0000 Carlos Acevedo http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5259 **** Some of the darker trappings of prizefighting—sutures, penlights, butterfly strips, ice packs, smelling salts, abbreviated futures—are almost guaranteed to materialize at some point when Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios and Mike Alvarado meet on Saturday night at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California. Refreshingly, neither fighter feels the need to boast, berate, or browbeat. [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/10/11/white-knuckles-mike-alvarado-brandon-rios-preview/feed/ 0 The Promise of Beauty: Mike Alvarado Faces Brandon Rios http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/10/09/the-promise-of-beauty-mike-alvarado-faces-brandon-rios/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/10/09/the-promise-of-beauty-mike-alvarado-faces-brandon-rios/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:29:44 +0000 Jimmy Tobin http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5254 **** Yet for all Rios’ menace, the man standing across from him at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California, next Saturday will not be intimidated. Mike Alvarado’s brand of belligerence embraces attrition, a contest where endurance, resilience, and psychical sturdiness render the verdict. The brawny fighter out of Denver, Colorado, is unlikely to see [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/10/09/the-promise-of-beauty-mike-alvarado-faces-brandon-rios/feed/ 0 My Next Victim: Juan Manuel Marquez Takes Aim at Morales, Gesta, Rios, & Alvarado http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/04/25/my-next-victim-juan-manuel-marquez-takes-aim-at-morales-gesta-rios-alvarado/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/04/25/my-next-victim-juan-manuel-marquez-takes-aim-at-morales-gesta-rios-alvarado/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:47:15 +0000 Jimmy Tobin http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=4803 **** Juan Manuel Marquez has answered all the questions his vocation could pose to him. Now, like a university student who has completed his degree requirements with a few credits remaining, Marquez is in position to take only the electives that interest him. So which course will Marquez choose? If Marquez is motivated by cultural [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/04/25/my-next-victim-juan-manuel-marquez-takes-aim-at-morales-gesta-rios-alvarado/feed/ 8 Aftermath: On Williams-Lara, Rios-Antillon, & Molina-Cintron http://thecruelestsport.com/2011/07/11/aftermath-on-williams-lara-rios-antillon-molina-cintron/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2011/07/11/aftermath-on-williams-lara-rios-antillon-molina-cintron/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:54:36 +0000 Michael Nelson http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=3636 **** In one of the worst examples of judging in recent memory, Erislandy Lara battered Paul Williams at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, only to lose a majority decision. The bout wasn’t close, open to interpretation, or particularly competitive. The benefit-of-every-doubt score for Williams was probably 116-112 Lara, but every judge managed to [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2011/07/11/aftermath-on-williams-lara-rios-antillon-molina-cintron/feed/ 14 The Hurting Kind: Brandon Rios-Urbano Antillon Preview http://thecruelestsport.com/2011/07/08/the-hurting-kind-brandon-rios-urbano-antillon-preview/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2011/07/08/the-hurting-kind-brandon-rios-urbano-antillon-preview/#comments Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:40:22 +0000 Carlos Acevedo http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=3624 ***** Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios and Urbano Antillon threaten to turn the Home Depot Center in Carson, California, into an oversized abattoir when they meet tomorrow night over 12—or, most likely, less—rounds for some BMX lightweight title or other. Antillon, 28-2 (20), is as much as a four to one underdog on some books, a [...]

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