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BRANDON RIOS / RICHARD ABRIL, MIKE ALVARADO / MAURICIO HERRERA, MERCITO GESTA / OSCAR CUERO FINAL NEWS CONFERENCE LUNCHEON

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Tomorrow! Wednesday, April 11 at Noon PT Mizuya Lounge at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas

LOS ANGELES. (April 10, 2012) ? Undefeated former World Lightweight Champion BRANDON ?Bam Bam? RIOS (29-0-1, 22 KOs), of Oxnard, Calif., and his opponent, World Boxing Association (WBA) interim lightweight champion and Cuban expatriate RICHARD ABRIL (17-2-1, 8 KOs), of Miami, Fla., will host the Final Las Vegas News Conference Luncheon Tomorrow! Wednesday, April 11, in the Mizuya Lounge at Mandalay Bay. Lunch will be served at Noon PT with the news conference beginning at 12:30 p.m. PT. Joining Rios and Abril will be Top 10 contenders ?Mile High? MIKE ALVARADO (32-0, 23 KOs), of Denver, MERCITO ?No Mercy? GESTA (24-0-1, 12 KOs), of Cebu, Philippines, and MAURICIO HERRERA (18-1, 7 KOs), of Riverside, Calif., plus Colombian buzzsaw OSCAR CUERO (15-7, 12 KOs) and Top Rank president TODD DUBOEF. All the participants will be discussing their upcoming career-defining fights on this Saturday?s world championship card originating from Las Vegas and M?xico City.

Three-division world champion and M?xican icon JUAN MANUEL M?RQUEZ will be going for his fourth world title in as many different weight divisions when he rumbles with World Boxing Organization (WBO) European junior welterweight champion SERGEY FEDCHENKO for the vacant WBO interim 140-pound world title. Rios will attempt to reclaim his old title when he battles Abril for the vacant WBA lightweight championship belt. M?rquez vs. Fedchenko and Rios vs. Abril headline a world championship pay-per-view event that?s so big its main events are originating from two different countries!

M?rquez-Fedchenko will take place in M?xico City?s brand new Arena M?xico, while Rios-Abril, along with a 10-round junior welterweight collision between Top 10 contenders Alvarado and Herrera, and a 10-round lightweight bout featuring Gesta against Cuero, Saturday, April 14, at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Boxing fans at Mandalay Bay will also see the M?rquez-Fedchenko world title fight live, via closed-circuit, on a jumbo screen. The M?rquez/Rios world championship event will be produced by Top Rank and distributed Live by HBO Pay-Per-View?, beginning at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT.

Promoted by Top Rank, in association with Zanfer Promotions, Tecate and AT&T, remaining tickets, priced at $250, $150, $100, $50 and $25, not including applicable service charges, are available at all Ticketmaster locations (select Smith?s Food and Drug Centers and Ritmo Latino). To charge by phone with a major credit card, call Mandalay Bay at (877) 632-7400 or Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000. Tickets also will be available for purchase at www.mandalaybay.com or www.ticketmaster.com.




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