Through Twitter Nonito hooked us up with ringside tickets to the event, and we were all pumped up about both the fights and being ringside for the first time in our lives.
Being Ringside is awesome it's Thunderdome down there anything goes. We had tickets to the 12th row of section 5,but I didn't sit in my seat for more than a minute.
When you are part of the ringside family they allow you to walk all around the floor freely surrounded by all types of boxing heads such as Freddy Roach, Chrystina Poncher, the fat guy that translates, Jim Lampley, Roy Jones Jr, Tyson Marquez. I was one Mario Lopez away from exploding in my pants.
I was in awe and it showed, so 50 uttered the words that resonated through out the rest of the night "Act like you belong here"
Fuck that, We quickly left our seat and proceeded to check every inch of the floor taking snap shots ringside and mingled with boxing heads.
The Fight
Brandon Rios versus Mike Alvarado was the most anticipated night of the fight, if not the year.Two undefeated Mexican brawlers with the I dont give a fuck attitude of Mick Folley would beat the shit out of each other up like Rock and Sock em robots for 10 rounds. I was salivating for this fight since it was announced. These kind of fights don't happen in boxing, thank you Bob Arum.
We were leaning against the rails taking pictures when Alvarado made his way to the ring.
Brandon Rios walking to the ring made it difficult to maintain my journalist integrety. Robert Garcia was happy and beaming with pride walking his top protege to the ring it was beautiful to watch. Fuck it, I dropped my camera and reached out to Brandon and he bumped my fist. It was a sign!! screw journalist integritywas cheering for Brandon tonight.
When the fighters were being introduced we walked to the other side of the ring and passed by our seat. Juan found me a spot on the corner where I could kneel 7 feet front from the ring and snap away. After 3 rounds on his knees Juan was beginning to feel like Summer Nyte in her pursuit of the record. He needed a seat, but there was no way he was going back to the 12th row.
Luckily for him Jay Caspian Kang came to the fight twittered something about a Japanese guy with an afro and left before the sun came down. Im sure he will write a condescending article on how boxing sucks though, just kidding he already did and it was actually really good. (Damn he is talented)
Anyways, Juan took his seat on the 5th row of media row next to Tyson Marquez.
When the lady asked him about the seat he acted like he belonged there he said something about "Championship Blog" and pointed at me and my camera. I gave a thumbs up and she believed us. Why would a guy wearing a vest and a guy on his knees with a 1000 camera lie??
The fight lived up to the hype. It was fast paced and action filled both fighters getting good licks on each other. Rios kept moving forward with thunderous hooks to the body and uppercuts to the head. Alvarado tried to box and keep his distance with the jab and was successful for a few rounds. He was winning the fight but Rios maintained the pressure and kept coming forward. Eventually in the 7th round and over hand right by Rios stunned Alvarado and Rios followed up with like seemed 7-10 hooks to Alvarado's dome and the Ref stopped the fight.
The moment it happened I was pissed it felt like watching RedTube and then suddenly getting the buffering sign. It felt that the fight was stopped early, but after seeing the fight 10 more times I believe the ref did the right thing.
This is the type of Ref that would of saved Apollo Creeds life when he fought Ivan Drago, but he would of also stopped the fight when Rocky was getting his ass kicked in the middle of the montage versus Drago and Rocky would have lost the fight and USA would of lost the Cold War. It is a tricky situation.
Alvarado deserved a chance to take a few more punches it seemed he was going for the clinch when it was stopped, and he would of preferred to go down on the floor than his feet. Yet, guys like Alvarado don't go to the floor.
If the fight continued the result would of been the same. Rios had done some serious damage to Alvardo's body and he wasn't going to stop the pressure. Alvarado looked winded after the 6th round, but he wanted and deserved the chance to go down fighting. You can't fault the ref for doing his job though he was looking out for the fighters health.
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