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He hasnt faced top tier competition yet but, what do y'all think of Roman " El Chocolotito" Gonzalez the Nicaraguan Flyweight.
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Very impressive, but he will inevitably move up to face better guys like Gio Segura, Tyson Marquez, Hawaiian Punch Viloria, and a more adequate rematch with Gallito Estrada
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I agree, he lost all desire to win the fight. Not at all surprised the "corner called it off,"
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I didn't want to say it, but yea....
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It wasn't the corner he called it off
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Alvarado said "I can't see" in the corner, they tested with the two fingers, he said he saw four.
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Everybody get ready for pacquiao rios II and III. Then maybe a Jesse Vargas fight. Bob arum go away
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Just got around to watch the fight. Absolutely pathetic what Alvarado did. Did enough to make weight, mail in his performance, and collect his check. Disgusting. Rios looked well prepared and did his job.
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Why would we want to see that?
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For what? Rios has a little bit more to prove before either Bradley or Marquez should be discussed.Do y'all see Rios vs. Bradley vs. Marquez in the near future?
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I for one wouldn't be to thrilled to see that but I think there's a high probability that it will be made. As strange as it may sound, Rios is the biggest Mexican-American name in boxing right now.
Do y'all see Rios vs. Bradley in the near future? 
Arum keeps most of his fighter's fights in house. Bradley just drawed with Diego Chaves, why wouldn't we see Bradley vs Rios?
For what? Rios has a little bit more to prove before either Bradley or Marquez should be discussed.Do y'all see Rios vs. Bradley vs. Marquez in the near future?
Arum keeps most of his fighter's fights in house. Bradley just drawed with Diego Chaves, why wouldn't we see Bradley vs Rios?
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That's a fight they would have to show for free and I still hope no one watches it.
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bradley would box circles around bam bam. rios vs robert guerrero would be way more intriguing (even though we prob wont see a tr/haymon fight anytime in the near future.)
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The way Alvarado came into the ring, you could see in his face that his mind just wasn't there. I told my boys this is going to be the worst trilogy we've seen in a while and that's exactly what happened.
That uppercut from Rios made Alavardo's brain move, he looked over to his corner like "no mas" :x ... as sad as this may sound, I was hoping his corner let him come back out for the 4th just to see a real KO
That post fight interview was tough too watch, I thought Mike was gonna cry. He needs to get his life back on track, can't be out here trying to have a full time professional boxing career and be gang banging on the side.
That uppercut from Rios made Alavardo's brain move, he looked over to his corner like "no mas" :x ... as sad as this may sound, I was hoping his corner let him come back out for the 4th just to see a real KO
That post fight interview was tough too watch, I thought Mike was gonna cry. He needs to get his life back on track, can't be out here trying to have a full time professional boxing career and be gang banging on the side.
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Weekend recap.
A roundup of the past week's notable boxing results from around the world:
Saturday at Broomfield, Colo.
Brandon Rios TKO3 Mike Alvarado
Welterweight
Records: Rios (33-2-1, 24 KOs); Alvarado (34-4, 23 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: After former lightweight titleholder Rios and former junior welterweight titlist Alvarado waged two phenomenal fight of the year candidates -- a Rios seventh-round knockout win in October 2012 followed by Alvarado's decision win in the March 2013 rematch to win a vacant interim junior welterweight belt -- a rubber match was destined to happen.
With both men, who have become friends through their epic rivalry, having lost other major fights since their rematch, Rios in a one-sided decision to Manny Pacquiao and Alvarado to Juan Manuel Marquez, the biggest fight available to each of them at this point was each other. After the rematch, Rios loudly said he would be willing to fight Alvarado in his hometown of Denver, and so promoter Top Rank put the fight in a Denver suburb, where a raucous near-sellout crowd of 5,988 turned out, many of whom surprisingly were rooting for Rios.
Instead of finishing the trilogy with another classic, it was a one-sided demolition as Rios, 28, of Oxnard, California, destroyed an ill-prepared Alvarado, who, in the end, quit after the third round. Rios, coming off a shaky performance in a disqualification win against Diego Chaves in August, got himself in fantastic condition and, for a change, made weight without issues. In fact, he, trainer Robert Garcia and their team went to the Denver area two weeks ahead of schedule on their own dime to finish training at altitude so Rios would be as prepared as possible. It showed in a performance that Rios called the best of his career. Conversely, Alvarado was a complete disaster.
Despite brave talk during the promotion about how he was in shape and ready to go -- and that his early January arrest at 4 a.m. during a traffic stop in which police discovered a loaded gun in his Hummer -- was not a distraction, he was clearly full of it. The 34-year-old Alvarado was in terrible shape and looked like a completely shot fighter about a minute into the fight, when Rios began to tee off and turned his face red with an all-out assault. How one-sided was the first round? Rios outlanded Alvarado 29-6.
Even to a novice boxing watcher, the first round was so one-sided that it was obvious it was going to be a short night that would end with a Rios victory. He continued to pour it on in the second round. All Alvarado could muster was an accidental low blow that dropped Rios to his knees. Referee Jay Nady warned Alvarado for the foul and, after a few moments to collect himself, Rios was back on the offensive. Alvarado put together a few decent punches later in the round, but it was his last (only!) gasp.
Rios continued to dole out punishment in the third round, ripping Alvarado with every shot in the book, including a powerful right uppercut. The shots were clean and Alvarado was wobbled time and again before one of those uppercuts finally dropped him to his knees. After the round ended, Alvarado was done.
For the fight, Rios landed 120 of 290 punches (41 percent) and Alvarado connected on only 20 of 87 (23 percent). Although the official reason that Nady stopped the fight was on the advice of the ringside doctor, whose question to Alvarado about how many fingers he had up was answered incorrectly (he held up two and Alvarado said four), it was very clear that Alvarado did not want to continue. Out of shape and uninterested in taking more abuse, he quit. To many it looked like he showed up simply to collect his $785,000 purse, which will likely be the last big purse of his career. It was a terrible performance in which he lost his third fight in a row (Rios, Marquez and a hometown knockout loss in which he lost his junior welterweight world title to Ruslan Provodnikov) and lost for the fourth time in five bouts. He is also facing another possible jail sentence after the recent arrest because as a convicted felon he is not allowed to possess a gun.
As dead as Alvarado's career looks, the win revives Rios' because he got in great shape and looked good. He has won two fights in a row since the losses to Alvarado and Pacquiao and finds himself in the mix for another major fight. Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said he would get Rios, who earned $850,000, another big fight, perhaps against Marquez or Timothy Bradley Jr.
While the Rios-Alvarado trilogy ended with a whimper instead of a bang, it is certainly not the only trilogy to have a disappointing fight in the series. For example, the second Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight was nothing to write home about. The second Arturo Gatti-Micky Ward fight was nowhere near as good as the first and third, and the same could be said about the second fight in the Marco Antonio Barrera-Erik Morales trilogy. In this case, the first two Rios-Alvarado fights are legendary with a third fight that did not live up to the previous chapters.
Gilberto Ramirez W10 Maxim Vlasov
Super middleweight
Scores: 97-93 (twice), 96-94
Records: Ramirez (31-0, 24 KOs); Vlasov (30-2, 15 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: In the short-term, Ramirez's clear-cut points win against Vlasov, a tough 28-year-old from Russia, might not have impressed many. Yes, Ramirez, a charismatic, 23-year-old southpaw and perhaps Mexico's next popular attraction, clearly won the fight, but it was not nearly in as impressive a manner as his previous few fights, which included knockout wins against such opponents as former world title challengers Giovanni Lorenzo and Fulgencio Zuniga.
In the long-term, however, the win should pay great dividends as it was a terrific learning experience for Ramirez, who needed a fight like this. Vlasov, who is 6-foot-3 and one of the rare opponents taller than the 6-2 Ramirez, was the best opponent he has faced. He was also bigger, having come down from light heavyweight to face Ramirez at a catch weight of 171 pounds. But Ramirez handled him well, even if it wasn't the most fan-friendly fight. One thing Ramirez did was to continue to show how brutal of a body puncher he is. He tore Vlasov up to the body, which he targeted from the opening bell. In all, he landed 112 body blows, according to CompuBox statistics. One look at Vlasov's face and it was obvious he was feeling the right hooks downstairs.
Ramirez, who needs to shorten his punches a bit and not throw so wide, kept a busy pace and outlanded Vlasov in every round but the fifth. Even when referee Curtis Thrasher warned Ramirez for a low blow in the fifth round, it did not deter him from continuing to attack Vlasov's body.
Ramirez also landed his share of hard head shots, which bruised and reddened Vlasov's face. Later in the fight, Ramirez's left eye began to swell and turn black and blue, but it seemed to be the product of an accidental head butt.
In the end, Ramirez got a hard-earned victory, ended Vlasov's 11-fight winning streak and continued his rise. Whether he can make it all the way still remains to be seen.
Oleksandr Gvozdyk KO2 Cory Cummings
Light heavyweight
Records: Gvozdyk (5-0, 4 KOs); Cummings (18-8-1, 13 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Gvozdyk is a high-quality prospect who could move quickly in the pros. The 27-year-old was a superb amateur and received an Olympic bronze medal in 2012. So advanced was he that he turned professional in a scheduled six-rounder, rather than the usual four-rounder, in April 2014. By his fourth pro fight he was boxing in a scheduled eight-rounder.
He is already a mature-looking fighter with good power and he is very precise with his punches. Cummings, 35, of Baltimore, is no world-beater, but he is experienced and has some notable opponents, including former middleweight titleholders Keith Holmes and William Joppy (twice) and former light heavyweight champion Montell Griffin. But Gvozdyk blew through him with ease, giving Cummings just his second knockout loss in his eight defeats. It was a very impressive performance as Gvozdyk established himself in the first round and then hammered Cummings out of there in the third with three knockdowns. He floored Cummings for the first time with a left hook and then launched a hail of punches in the follow-up attack to send him to the canvas face first for the second knockdown. The finishing sequence came moments later on a really nice, textbook three-punch combination of a jab, uppercut, clean right hand that dropped Cummings hard on his rear end. As soon as Cummings hit the deck, referee Stephen Blea waved off the fight at 1 minute, 10 seconds.
Gvozdyk, who is trained by Robert Garcia (who loves his potential), is in the stable of manager Egis Klimas, who has an eye for talent and typically does not get involved with fighters without serious potential. Add Gvozdyk to his list of Klimas' quality fighters, which includes unified light heavyweight titlist Sergey Kovalev and featherweight titleholders Vasyl Lomachenko and Evgeny Gradovich.
Saturday at Broomfield, Colo.
Brandon Rios TKO3 Mike Alvarado
Welterweight
Records: Rios (33-2-1, 24 KOs); Alvarado (34-4, 23 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: After former lightweight titleholder Rios and former junior welterweight titlist Alvarado waged two phenomenal fight of the year candidates -- a Rios seventh-round knockout win in October 2012 followed by Alvarado's decision win in the March 2013 rematch to win a vacant interim junior welterweight belt -- a rubber match was destined to happen.
With both men, who have become friends through their epic rivalry, having lost other major fights since their rematch, Rios in a one-sided decision to Manny Pacquiao and Alvarado to Juan Manuel Marquez, the biggest fight available to each of them at this point was each other. After the rematch, Rios loudly said he would be willing to fight Alvarado in his hometown of Denver, and so promoter Top Rank put the fight in a Denver suburb, where a raucous near-sellout crowd of 5,988 turned out, many of whom surprisingly were rooting for Rios.
Instead of finishing the trilogy with another classic, it was a one-sided demolition as Rios, 28, of Oxnard, California, destroyed an ill-prepared Alvarado, who, in the end, quit after the third round. Rios, coming off a shaky performance in a disqualification win against Diego Chaves in August, got himself in fantastic condition and, for a change, made weight without issues. In fact, he, trainer Robert Garcia and their team went to the Denver area two weeks ahead of schedule on their own dime to finish training at altitude so Rios would be as prepared as possible. It showed in a performance that Rios called the best of his career. Conversely, Alvarado was a complete disaster.
Despite brave talk during the promotion about how he was in shape and ready to go -- and that his early January arrest at 4 a.m. during a traffic stop in which police discovered a loaded gun in his Hummer -- was not a distraction, he was clearly full of it. The 34-year-old Alvarado was in terrible shape and looked like a completely shot fighter about a minute into the fight, when Rios began to tee off and turned his face red with an all-out assault. How one-sided was the first round? Rios outlanded Alvarado 29-6.
Even to a novice boxing watcher, the first round was so one-sided that it was obvious it was going to be a short night that would end with a Rios victory. He continued to pour it on in the second round. All Alvarado could muster was an accidental low blow that dropped Rios to his knees. Referee Jay Nady warned Alvarado for the foul and, after a few moments to collect himself, Rios was back on the offensive. Alvarado put together a few decent punches later in the round, but it was his last (only!) gasp.
Rios continued to dole out punishment in the third round, ripping Alvarado with every shot in the book, including a powerful right uppercut. The shots were clean and Alvarado was wobbled time and again before one of those uppercuts finally dropped him to his knees. After the round ended, Alvarado was done.
For the fight, Rios landed 120 of 290 punches (41 percent) and Alvarado connected on only 20 of 87 (23 percent). Although the official reason that Nady stopped the fight was on the advice of the ringside doctor, whose question to Alvarado about how many fingers he had up was answered incorrectly (he held up two and Alvarado said four), it was very clear that Alvarado did not want to continue. Out of shape and uninterested in taking more abuse, he quit. To many it looked like he showed up simply to collect his $785,000 purse, which will likely be the last big purse of his career. It was a terrible performance in which he lost his third fight in a row (Rios, Marquez and a hometown knockout loss in which he lost his junior welterweight world title to Ruslan Provodnikov) and lost for the fourth time in five bouts. He is also facing another possible jail sentence after the recent arrest because as a convicted felon he is not allowed to possess a gun.
As dead as Alvarado's career looks, the win revives Rios' because he got in great shape and looked good. He has won two fights in a row since the losses to Alvarado and Pacquiao and finds himself in the mix for another major fight. Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said he would get Rios, who earned $850,000, another big fight, perhaps against Marquez or Timothy Bradley Jr.
While the Rios-Alvarado trilogy ended with a whimper instead of a bang, it is certainly not the only trilogy to have a disappointing fight in the series. For example, the second Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight was nothing to write home about. The second Arturo Gatti-Micky Ward fight was nowhere near as good as the first and third, and the same could be said about the second fight in the Marco Antonio Barrera-Erik Morales trilogy. In this case, the first two Rios-Alvarado fights are legendary with a third fight that did not live up to the previous chapters.
Gilberto Ramirez W10 Maxim Vlasov
Super middleweight
Scores: 97-93 (twice), 96-94
Records: Ramirez (31-0, 24 KOs); Vlasov (30-2, 15 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: In the short-term, Ramirez's clear-cut points win against Vlasov, a tough 28-year-old from Russia, might not have impressed many. Yes, Ramirez, a charismatic, 23-year-old southpaw and perhaps Mexico's next popular attraction, clearly won the fight, but it was not nearly in as impressive a manner as his previous few fights, which included knockout wins against such opponents as former world title challengers Giovanni Lorenzo and Fulgencio Zuniga.
In the long-term, however, the win should pay great dividends as it was a terrific learning experience for Ramirez, who needed a fight like this. Vlasov, who is 6-foot-3 and one of the rare opponents taller than the 6-2 Ramirez, was the best opponent he has faced. He was also bigger, having come down from light heavyweight to face Ramirez at a catch weight of 171 pounds. But Ramirez handled him well, even if it wasn't the most fan-friendly fight. One thing Ramirez did was to continue to show how brutal of a body puncher he is. He tore Vlasov up to the body, which he targeted from the opening bell. In all, he landed 112 body blows, according to CompuBox statistics. One look at Vlasov's face and it was obvious he was feeling the right hooks downstairs.
Ramirez, who needs to shorten his punches a bit and not throw so wide, kept a busy pace and outlanded Vlasov in every round but the fifth. Even when referee Curtis Thrasher warned Ramirez for a low blow in the fifth round, it did not deter him from continuing to attack Vlasov's body.
Ramirez also landed his share of hard head shots, which bruised and reddened Vlasov's face. Later in the fight, Ramirez's left eye began to swell and turn black and blue, but it seemed to be the product of an accidental head butt.
In the end, Ramirez got a hard-earned victory, ended Vlasov's 11-fight winning streak and continued his rise. Whether he can make it all the way still remains to be seen.
Oleksandr Gvozdyk KO2 Cory Cummings
Light heavyweight
Records: Gvozdyk (5-0, 4 KOs); Cummings (18-8-1, 13 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Gvozdyk is a high-quality prospect who could move quickly in the pros. The 27-year-old was a superb amateur and received an Olympic bronze medal in 2012. So advanced was he that he turned professional in a scheduled six-rounder, rather than the usual four-rounder, in April 2014. By his fourth pro fight he was boxing in a scheduled eight-rounder.
He is already a mature-looking fighter with good power and he is very precise with his punches. Cummings, 35, of Baltimore, is no world-beater, but he is experienced and has some notable opponents, including former middleweight titleholders Keith Holmes and William Joppy (twice) and former light heavyweight champion Montell Griffin. But Gvozdyk blew through him with ease, giving Cummings just his second knockout loss in his eight defeats. It was a very impressive performance as Gvozdyk established himself in the first round and then hammered Cummings out of there in the third with three knockdowns. He floored Cummings for the first time with a left hook and then launched a hail of punches in the follow-up attack to send him to the canvas face first for the second knockdown. The finishing sequence came moments later on a really nice, textbook three-punch combination of a jab, uppercut, clean right hand that dropped Cummings hard on his rear end. As soon as Cummings hit the deck, referee Stephen Blea waved off the fight at 1 minute, 10 seconds.
Gvozdyk, who is trained by Robert Garcia (who loves his potential), is in the stable of manager Egis Klimas, who has an eye for talent and typically does not get involved with fighters without serious potential. Add Gvozdyk to his list of Klimas' quality fighters, which includes unified light heavyweight titlist Sergey Kovalev and featherweight titleholders Vasyl Lomachenko and Evgeny Gradovich.
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Canelo vs rios? Nah im good. I dont even think it would go the distance. Rios would eat all canelos power punches, possibly get a tko. But it would be a phone booth fight. But wouldnt go the distance.
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A phone booth fight going the distance?
Sign me up. That sounds entertaining as hell to me.
Sign me up. That sounds entertaining as hell to me.
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Canelo would stop Rios IMO.
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canelo/rios would be another canelo/angulo fight
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Yeah pretty much. Except Rios isn't shot, but he also hasn't proven he has any power at 154. I'm not interested unless I see Rios beat somebody legit at 154 first.
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I agree, but after Kirkland there is nobody at 154 who could draw better than Rios. Canelo vs Rios will sell better than Canelo vs Clottey, maybe even more than Canelo vs Kirkland.
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yes he is