Brandon Rios Added to Pacquiao-Margarito Undercard in Light of Pavlik Injury

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(Photo © Chris Farina/Top Rank)

With the biggest fight to ever hit North Texas little over a week and a half away you can almost feel the electricity in the air.  The fight card, headlined by the super-fight between Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito took a bit of a hit this week when it was announced that former middleweight champion of the world Kelly Pavlik had withdrawn from his fight with Brian Vera due to a rib injury.  However, Top Rank moved swiftly in replacing Pavlik’s fight with another fighter with a similar offensive arsenal in Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios (28-0-1, 18 KOs) who will face Omri Lawther (14-2, 10 KOs) in a junior welterweight bout. 

The undefeated Rios is coming of a DQ win over highly touted contender Anthony Peterson and has quickly established himself as a fan favorite fighter for his all action attack.  They don’t call him “Bam Bam” for nothing, after all. 

The Rios-Lawther fight will fill out the four bout televised PPV card and while it lacks the star power of a Pavlik-Vera bout, it none the less guarantees a slugfest. 

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