Though it wasn’t the main event, Brandon Rios-Mike Alvarado co-feature stole the show during HBO’s Boxing After Dark doubleheader. Check it out after the jump.
Seldom does a boxing match live up to the hype, but Rios-Alvarado did just that, meeting lofty expectations by delivering a war, one which Rios won via brutal seventh-round stoppage before a sell-out crowd of 7,665 at the outdoor Home Depot Center.
It was a war of attrition between two unbeaten fighters. Each round was a fistic masterpiece, brutal and savage. Rios absorbed vicious shot after shot, but took it all in stride, outlasting Mike Alvarado with a seventh round TKO.
