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Blood In, Blood Out: Mike Alvarado W12 Brandon Rios
**** 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…Read More
With Mercy For The Dreaming: Brandon Rios-Mike Alvarado II Preview
**** 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…Read More
Turning Screws: On Brandon Rios-Mike Alvarado II
**** 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…Read More
DAMAGE, INC. : Brandon Rios TKO7 Mike Alvarado
**** 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…Read More
Mañana en la batalla: Brandon Rios vs. Mike Alvarado
**** “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…Read More
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WHITE KNUCKLES: Mike Alvarado-Brandon Rios Preview
**** Some of the darker trappings of prizefighting—sutures, penlights, butterfly strips, ice packs,…Read More
The Promise of Beauty: Mike Alvarado Faces Brandon Rios
**** Yet for all Rios’ menace, the man standing across from him at the Home Depot Center in Carson,…Read More
My Next Victim: Juan Manuel Marquez Takes Aim at Morales, Gesta, Rios, & Alvarado
**** Juan Manuel Marquez has answered all the questions his vocation could pose to him. Now, like a…Read More
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