PHOTOS: Rios & Alvarado Vegas Media Workouts

LAS VEGAS, NEV. (March 27, 2013) — Undefeated former world lightweight champion BRANDON “Bam Bam” RIOS (31-0, 22 KOs), of Oxnard, Calif., and top-rated contender “Mile High” MIKE ALVARADO (33-1, 23 KOs), of Denver, kicked off Fight Week with a Las Vegas Media Workout, Today!  Wednesday, March 27, at theTop Rank Gym.

Rios-Alvarado II, a rematch of their 2012 Fight of the Year-nominated fight and one of the greatest fights of the 21st Century, will take place, This Saturday!  March 30, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nev. The 12-round World Boxing Organization (WBO) interim junior welterweight championship rumble will be televised live on HBO Boxing After Dark®, beginning at 10:15 p.m. ET/PT.  The telecast will open with undefeated TERENCE CRAWFORD (19-0, 15 KOs), of Omaha, Neb., world-rated No. 11 by the International Boxing Federation (IBF), in a 10-round junior welterweight rumble with battle-tested veteran BREIDIS PRESCOTT (26-4, 20 KOs), a native of Colombia, now fighting out of Miami, Fla.  Former U.S. Olympian and future boxing superstar JOSE RAMÍREZ (1-0, 1 KO), from Avenal, Calif.,  will be featured on the undercard.  Crawford, Prescott and Ramírez will also be participating in Wednesday’s Media Workout with Rios and Alvarado.

Photo Credit : Chris Farina – Top Rank