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TODAY! Final Rios-Chaves & Vargas-Novikov Vegas News Conf - 1:30 PM PT

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BRANDON RIOS vs. DIEGO CHAVES JESSIE VARGAS vs. ANTON NOVIKOV
FINAL PRESS CONFERENCE

Today! Thursday, July 31 at 1:30 P.M. PT
The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas - Gracia 4 & 8

Streamed Live at 4:30 P.M. ET / 1:30 P.M. PT via www.toprank.tv

LAS VEGAS, NV (July 31 2014) -- Former world lightweight champion and pound-for-pound all-action fighter BRANDON "Bam Bam" RIOS, undefeated World Boxing Association (WBA) super lightweight champion "The Pride of Las Vegas" JESSIE VARGAS, and their respective opponents, DIEGO "La Joya" CHAVES and ANTON "The Pick Hammer" NOVIKOV, will host their Final Press Conference, Today! Thursday, July 31, in Gracia 4 & 8 (Level 3, West End Tower) at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas (3708 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas, NV 89109). Media may report at 1:00 p.m. The press conference will begin at 1:30 p.m. PT. The fighters and their teams will be available for one-on-one interviews.

The press conference will be streamed live, beginning at 4:30 p.m. ET / 1:30 p.m. PT, via www.toprank.tv.

Rios (31-2-1, 22 KOs), of Oxnard, Calif., will be making his eagerly-anticipated 2014 debut against one-time interim world champion Chaves (23-1, 19 KOs), of Buenos Aires, in a 10-round welterweight battle. Vargas (24-0, 9 KOs), of Las Vegas, NV, making his first title defense a homecoming, will rumble with undefeated contender Novikov (29-0, 10 KOs), of Kopeysk, Russia. Both fights will be televised live from The Chelsea in The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas,, This Saturday! August 2, on HBO Boxing After Dark?, beginning at 9:45 p.m. ET/PT.

Promoted by Top Rank?, in association with Tecate, remaining tickets to the Rios vs. Chaves / Vargas vs. Novikov world championship event are available for purchase at www.cosmopolitanlasvegas.com or through Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000 and www.ticketmaster.com. Tickets are priced at $50, $75, $100, $150 and $200. Room / ticket packages are also available.

For fight updates go to www.toprank.com, or www.hbo.com/boxing, on Facebook at facebook.com/trboxing, facebook.com/trboxeo, or facebook.com/hboboxing, and on Twitter at twitter.com/trboxing, twitter.com/trboxeo, or twitter.com/hboboxing.

For more information on The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, visit www.cosmopolitanlasvegas.com. Follow on Twitter at www.twitter.com/cosmopolitan_lv or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/thecosmopolitan.




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