By Chris Williams: This Saturday’s pay-per-view card on HBO headlined by Manny Pacquiao vs. Brandon Rios leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to the undercard. For $60, I would have liked to have seen Top Rank put together a little more interesting fights than the ones they got on there.
I know for some boxing fans they don’t care about the undercard, and they’re willing to pay $60 to see Pacquiao and Rios fight all by itself, but I’m not one of them. I like to see a quality undercard for expensive PPV fights, and I’m just not excited about this undercard.
Here are the undercard fights for Saturday’s Pacquiao-Rios fight card from the Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China:
By Chris Williams: Trainer Freddie Roach doesn’t want Manny Pacquiao (54-5-2, 38 KO’s) to come out looking for a KO this Saturday night against Brandon Rios (31-1-1, 23 KO’s) in Macao, China. This fight is a going to be a little different the last one against Juan Manuel Marquez for Pacquiao. Instead of telling Pacquiao to fight like he did in his mid-20s, Roach wants him to use his boxing skills to box the 27-year-old Rios, and Roach thinks from there that a knockout will spring from that.
By Chris Williams: Not only is Trainer Freddie Roach cocky about his fighter Manny Pacquiao’s fight this Saturday night against Brandon Rios (31-1-1, 23 KO’s) in Macao, China, but now Pacquiao is starting to sound like he’s getting overconfident about the fight. 
By Chris Williams: George Foreman believes that Manny Pacquiao (54-5-2, 38 KO’s) has a chance to pitch a shutout against Brandon Rios (31-1-1, 23 KO’s) in their fight on November 23rd in Macao, China. Foreman thinks that Rios will be thrown off from having to travel all the way to China where the time difference could throw Rios off a lot more than Pacquiao, who comes from the nearby Philippines.
By Chris Williams: With Manny Pacquiao’s scalp now on his resume, WBO welterweight champion Tim Bradley feels he’s in the position to give advice to Brandon Rios (31-1-1, 23 KO’s) in what he needs to do in order to send Pacquiao down for his third straight loss on November 23rd. 
By Chris Williams: Sugar Ray Leonard questions whether Manny Pacquiao has fully recovered from his stoppage loss at the hands of Juan Manuel Marquez last December. Leonard feels that there may be some lingering mental issues for Pacquiao from the KO loss that he might drag with him into his fight against 27-year-old Mexican American warrior Brandon Rios (31-1-1, 23 KO’s) on November 23rd that could hinder Pacquiao and prevent him from fighting hard enough to win the fight. 
By Al Hmiel: Brandon Rios 31-1-1 is the hand-picked opponent for the floundering downward career trajectory path of a Manny Pacquiao (54-5-2). Manny is coming off two straight losses to Tim Bradley and the Mexican warrior Juan Manuel Marquez. The KO loss to Juan was devastating and a possible career-ender for Manny. 
By Chris Williams: Former sparring partner of Manny Pacquiao, the unbeaten welterweight contender Shawn Porter, believes that the boxing world is going to see the old version of Pacquiao in 9 days when he faces Brandon Rios (31-1-1, 23 KO’s) on November 23rd in Macao, China. Porter sees Rios taking a ton of head shots in this fight and he wonders how he’s going to be able to take all those punches for 12 rounds.