Video: Brandon Rios at presser for Chaves fight: “It’s do or die for me”

Former World Lightweight champion Brandon Rios of Oxnard,Ca. and trainer Robert Garcia(L) attended the final press conference, today Thursday July 31st, 2014, for his eagerly-anticipated 2014 debut in a 10-round welterweight main event against one-time interim world champion Diego Chaves of Buenos Aires, Saturday, August 2 in the Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and televised on HBO Boxing After Dark®. Chaves was resting at his hotel after arriving from Argentina early Thursday morning and unable to attend the press conference.

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