TODAY! Rios-Chaves/Vargas-Novikov Official Weigh-In – 3 P.M. PT

LAS VEGAS, NV — Former world lightweight champion and pound-for-pound all-action fighter BRANDON “Bam Bam” RIOS, undefeated World Boxing Association (WBA) super lightweight champion “The Pride of Las Vegas” JESSIE VARGAS, and their respective opponents, DIEGO “La Joya” CHAVES and ANTON “The Pick Hammer” NOVIKOV, will have their Official Weigh-In, Today! Friday, August 1, in Gracia 4 & 8 (Level 3, West End Tower) at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas (3708 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas, NV 89109). Doors will open for media and fans at 2:00 p.m. The fighters will step on the scale beginning at 3:00 p.m. PT.

The weigh-in will also be streamed live, beginning at 6 00 p.m. ET / 3:00 p.m. PT, via www.toprank.tv.

Rios (31-2-1, 22 KOs), of Oxnard, Calif., will be making his eagerly-anticipated 2014 debut against one-time interim world champion Chaves (23-1, 19 KOs), of Buenos Aires, in a 10-round welterweight battle.

Vargas (24-0, 9 KOs), of Las Vegas, NV, making his first title defense a homecoming, will rumble with undefeated contender Novikov (29-0, 10 KOs), of Kopeysk, Russia. Both fights will be televised live from The Chelsea in The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas,, This Saturday! August 2, on HBO Boxing After Dark®, beginning at 9:45 p.m. ET/PT.