Mike Alvarado decided not to wrestle in college and instead selected a boxing career.
12 Facts About Mike Alvarado
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Mike Alvarado was going to fight Paulie Malignaggi but he suffered an elbow injury and withdrew from the fight set for June 27,2009.
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Mike Alvarado served a 5-month prison sentence and made a return to boxing with a 2nd-round KO of Lenin Arroyo.
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Up to this point in his career, Mike Alvarado had beaten fighters such as Carlos Molina, Michael Clark, Michel Rosales, Cesar Bazan, Emmanuel Clottey, and Juaquin Gallardo.
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Mike Alvarado beat Ghana's Raymond Narh, to win the WBC Continental Americas Light Welterweight Championship, which he would later vacate just before his fight with Gabriel Martinez.
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Mike Alvarado fought Breidis Prescott on November 12,2011, in Las Vegas, Nevada, on the undercard of Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez III.
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Prescott was able to get up, but Mike Alvarado came back with two hard rights sending Prescott to the ropes, and then landed 3 straight right uppercuts.
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The pace would continue in the early and middle rounds, with Mike Alvarado taking Herrera to the ropes and landing the harder punches, but with Herrera landing combinations of his own on Mike Alvarado.
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Mike Alvarado was named to "The Gatti List" on The Fight Game with Jim Lampley on HBO in May 2012.
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Mike Alvarado was ahead on the scorecards up until the 6th round, in which Rios hurt him with a crushing right.
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Mike Alvarado lost his WBO Light Welterweight title to Ruslan Provodnikov on October 19,2013, at the 1stBank Center in Mike Alvarado's hometown of Denver, Colorado.
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Mike Alvarado debuted with Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship on April 29,2023, at Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 41: Colorado and lost to James Brown via knockout.