Brandon Rios
“Goof kicks old guy with Parkinsons” so says Wayne Dozer
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 It was training as usual on Tuesday for the lead up to Saturday’s Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao (54-5-2, 38 KOs) versus Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios (31-1-1, 23 KOs) fight in Macau, China. Then around 11:20 a.m. some shenanigans took place at the neutral training facility procured by Top Rank Inc., an eight […]
With such prominent fighters, the comparisons were inevitable
Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire (30-1-0, 19 KOs) now has a record of 9-0 (6 KOs) against former or current world titlists. After defeating Noshiaki Toshiaki on Saturday evening, he has now gone 11 years, seven months and three days since that one, lone defeat. On Saturday night, the Brandon Rios (30-0-1, 22 KOs) versus […]
Boxing results from the weekend, some excitement, some major blunders
Once again, the sport of boxing’s supporters (sometimes apologists) had to take one on the chin. We can go weeks without any controversy and then all of a sudden it’s back to square one where either there was a ridiculous decision by a judge or judges or a referee appeared to be aiding and abetting […]
Lineup for Juan Manuel Marquez, Brandon Rios, Mercito Gesta bouts announced
The lineup for Top Rank’s split site PPV card of April 14, 2012 featuring Brandon Rios, Juan Manuel Marquez, Mercito Gesta and Mike Alvarado was just announced.
Mercito Gesta and Lester Gonzalez on Brandon Rios undercard
For weeks, Brandon Rios and Urbano Antillon have dedicated a lot of time to jawing at one another, but Wednesday at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in Los Angeles their focus was only on their Saturday meeting when Rios (27-0-1, 19 KOs), of Oxnard, CA, will defend his WBA lightweight championship against Antillon (28-2, 20 KOs), […]