Getting your player ready...
Fallout from Juan Manuel Marquez’s stunning knockout of Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas on Saturday reached all the way to Denver. Mike Alvarado, a junior welterweight from Denver, now may fight Brandon Rios in a rematch in March, promoter Bob Arum told the Los Angeles Times. Rios’ TKO of Alvarado in a thrilling October bout near L.A. was immediately considered a leading fight-of-the-year contender. Rios was slotted to go against Pacquiao in his next bout — assuming Pacquiao beat Marquez. But Marquez’s upset threw out those plans. Instead, it could be Alvarado-Rios in a rematch and Pacquiao-Marquez in a fifth bout, Arum said. Nick Groke, The Denver Post
