HBO Boxing After Dark

[steven charles]

hbo boxing 1-24-2015

hbo bad:Alvarado vs Rios 3 & Ramirez vs Vlasov" -from 1st Bank Center at
Bloomfield,Colo.Mike Alvarado(34-3-0) fights Brandon Rios(32-2-1) for
vacant WBO International welterweight title: Gilberto Ramirez(30-0-0) fights
Maxim Vlasov(30-1-0). at 6:45 pacific time....

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shud be another slugfest..;)

[steven charles]

shud be another slugfest..;)I,ll bet it will my friend,the same as 1 and 2.....

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http://i0.wp.com/www.boxingnews24.com/wp-content/uploads/alvarado7.jpg?resize=414%2C280By Dan Ambrose: Mike Alvarado (34-3, 23 KOs) isn’t going to fight Brandon Rios’ style tonight in their third fight together. Instead, Alvarado plans on sticking with the same game that he used to box circles around Rios the last time they faced each other in 2013. In that fight, Alvarado used movement along with occasional flurries to dominate the slow-moving Rios in winning a 12 round decision.

Rios, 28, has said that he’s adapted a game plan that will negate Alvarado’s ability to move around the ring, and that he plans on cutting off the ring on him to force him to fight the same way that he did in their previous fight on HBO.


However, Rios looked very slow in his last fight against Diego Chaves and in his loss to Manny Pacquiao.
It’s probably not realistic because Rios has naturally slow feet. It’s like asking a slow person to run a 100 meter sprint at a higher speed as they age. Rios can’t move any faster because he’s a natural plodder type of fighter.
“The first fight was a test for that technique – a style against a style,” said Alvarado via Fightnews.com. “The second fight is where the adjustments come in. Now that I know I was able to adapt to a certain style, I can make the adjustments I need to make to overcome that type of style. I am going to go in there and stick with my game plan.”
That game plan that Alvarado will be looking to use will be a stick and move style, and it’s likely going to be successful. Alvarado may have struggled in his fights against Ruslan Provodnikov and Juan Manuel Marquez, but he’s got the ability to out-box a slow mover with the limited talent that Rios has.
One thing that you have to hope that we don’t see is Rios head-butting Alvarado all night long tonight like Rios did in his last fight against Diego Chaves. Each time Chaves would clinch Rios, we’d see Rios tae his head and stick it directly into the face of Chaves.
The referee Vik Drakulitch was seemingly asleep at the wheel, because he let Rios get away with the head-butts. To top off his poor performance in controlling the fight, Drakulitch ended up disqualifying Chaves for a phantom elbow that he supposedly threw in the 9th round. I saw no elbow being thrown by Chaves in that round, but it sure was a lucky break for Rios because without the disqualification, he would have lost the fight to Chaves.
I don’t expect Rios to be able to deal with the movement that Alvarado uses in this fight. But I do see Rios getting dirty any chance he can get by hitting low, head-butting and throwing rabbit shots. I just hope the referee does his job to keep Rios under control, because this fight could turn into an MMA affair very quickly. If it was MMA, Alvarado would destroy Rios because he’s a former high school all state wrestling champion, but Alvarado has too much discipline to let himself get out of control and turn it into a non-boxing fight.

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rios by ko...jmo..;)

[steven charles]

rios by ko...jmo..;)I concur on the tko....

[aquariusone]

Dan Ambrose is way out in left field. Alvarado did not take this fight seriously. He is a troubled man. Unless he gets help, his career is over. Brandon Rios gave himself an opportunity to challenge others in the division. I'd like to see him in the ring against Adrien Broner.

[Fibroso]

Dan Ambrose is way out in left field. Alvarado did not take this fight seriously. He is a troubled man. Unless he gets help, his career is over. Brandon Rios gave himself an opportunity to challenge others in the division. I'd like to see him in the ring against Adrien Broner.
Must agree with Aqua, he needs help, AAA or NA 12 step program quick before time takes over. About Rios, he just fought a boxing bag. Broner will kill him. Everyone there for the money. Lets wait for rudee!!!

[rudee]

Boy,,, Alvarado one shot fighter eh boys??? he looked like a loser when he was walking to the ring.
Hated to see his little girl walking with him.. I figured he would get knocked out.. not that early though.
Guys, its cases like this that they have to yank his license and make him take a year off..
This guy is really punchy.. its not just his private life issues.. its the blows he has taken throughout
his career.. check his record... marquez pounded him too..
Agree with Fib,, Rios just took batting practice on the mannequin.. not a true test for Rios.. although
he did come ready to fight.
Broner vs Rios would be an entertaining fight.. would love to see it..
Hopefully the commision does the right thing and pulls Alvarado's license.. had nothing to do with taking
the fight seriously.. which was an out for me... the guy is shot.. talked nonsense.. gonna end up talking
like Hearns.

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Alvarado is a beater...Needs to hang'em up...Hammered by Provodnikov,beat by Marquez and now Rios again.Wasn't much of anything you would call a fight...Max Kellerman didnt miss anything...

[Condor]

Missed another one but as you all state it was not much of a fight...........I thought it would be another war...Oh well........

[steven charles]

Missed another one but as you all state it was not much of a fight...........I thought it would be another war...Oh well........you didn,t missed much my friend,just all those blows landing on Alvarado,s face by the first round his face was red like a tomato,and by the end 3 or 4th round his face was all swollen,and didn,t come out for the next round the doctor ask him how many finger do you see and he had two fingers out and he said 4 fingers,and that's when they stopped the fight and rios won by tko,and rios on all rounds they fought had close to 100 on each round.....