The former Wbo light-Ww champion Mike Alvarado entered this fight with a professional boxing record of 34-3-0 (23 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.20 welterweight in the world, all his three defeats occurred in his last four fights: he lost the first bout against Rios (2012 Fight of the Year candidate, Rios vs Alvarado I), then he won the rematch (4-stars-fight, Rios vs Alvarado II) and he lost again to Ruslan Provodnikov (4-stars-fight Alvarado vs Provodnikov) and to Juan Manuel Marquez (=Marquez vs Alvarado).
His opponent, the former Wba Lw champion Brandon Rios, has an official record of 32-2-1 (23 knockouts) and he entered as the No.16 in the same weight class, he suffered two consecutive defeats in 2013: the rematch against Alvarado as we said earlier and then he lost to Manny Pacquiao (=Pacquiao vs Rios); after this bout he came back to win beating Diego Gabriel Chaves (by disqualification Rios vs Chaves). Alvarado vs Rios 3 is valid for the vacant WBO International welterweight title. Watch the video and rate this fight!
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Date: 2015-01-24
Where: 1stBank Center, Bloomfield, Colorado, USA
Division: welterweight (147 lbs, 66.7 kg)
Title: vacant WBO International welterweight title
Alvarado’s previous fight: Juan Manuel Marquez vs Mike Alvarado
Rios’ previous fight: Brandon Rios vs Diego Gabriel Chaves
Rios’ next fight: Timothy Bradley vs Brandon Rios
Alvarado’s next fight: Mike Alvarado vs Saul Corral
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Video:
Amateur video
Official highlights
How much money did they get for their honor?
Almost a million each
http://www.boxingnews24.com/2015/01/purses-rios-850k-alvarado-785k/
Who gave this 3 stars?
Wasn’t even a fight.
Chavez fought more then 100 fights – never saw him have a fight like this – at the end of his stay! got his butt kicked and fought back!
Alvarado saying after the fight ‘I wasn’t ready’ pisses me off. He told numerous times in the pre fight build-up that the legal accusations against him didn’t affect him and he said he never missed a day of training. This makes me unlike a fighter. Kudos to Rios.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2elqq7_mike-alvarado-vs-brandon-rios-iii-24-01-2015-road-to-alvarado-vs-rios-iii-hd_sport