By Dan Ambrose: Brandon Rios (30-0-1, 22 KO’s) seems to be acting like a sore loser in some of the interviews that I’ve been reading about the guy. Instead of being happy that he won a questionable 12 round split decision that the boxing public hates, Rios seems to be bitter about the experience for some reason.

Rios doesn’t have any idea about who he’ll be matched up with next. He was supposed to be fighting July 14th against Juan Manuel Marquez at the Cowboys Stadium but according to the boxing news I’m hearing that fight is now is now up in the air with Marquez possibly being matched against Top Rank lightweight contender Mercito Gesta instead. Rios says doesn’t care who he fights.

Speaking with boxingsocialist.com, Rios said “It doesn’t matter whoever Cameron [Dunkin] says is next that’s who I fight…If it’s Marquez or [Mike] Alvarado, I don’t care.”

I think if I was Rios, I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for a fight against Marquez to plop down in his lap. Marquez doesn’t fight guys that are coming off of tainted wins like Rios is against Richard Abril last Saturday night. Marquez won’t want the stink of Rios’s “win” over Abril to be following him into the ring and turning away potential boxing fans like a skunk in the arena.

It would be better for Rios to try and fight Alvarado to work his way back up to a fight against a guy like Marquez. I would say Marquez, but by the time that Rios gets back up to the level to where Marquez is now, Marquez will have gotten his big money rematch with Pacquiao and then retired from boxing.

This could be the last year in Marquez’s career, so you have to figure he’ll fight on July 14th against Gesta, and then in November in his fourth and final fight against Pacquiao. There won’t be any room in between those fights for a bout against Rios I hate to say. It’s probably not even going to be an issue anyway if Rios does face Alvarado and get beat. It would be academic at that point that Rios will never get a fight against Marquez.

Rios wants to fight Marquez, but he’ll probably have to settle for the Alvarado fight. At this point, I think Bob Arum will pull back from putting Rios in with a fighter like Alvarado because he could ruin things for Arum by giving Rios a beating Once that happens, all the time and money Arum put into Rios will likely go straight down the tubes because he’ll be less marketable and will be seen by a lot of boxing fans as shot or damaged fighter.