Brandon Rios NYC arrival
Photo by Chris Farina/Top Rank –
Former world champion Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios arrives in New York City Monday night after spending a day at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Conn. Rios is in town for a Tuesday press conference at Jing Fong restaurant in Chinatown with superstar Manny Pacquiao. This is their first official US stop of their extraordinary world-wide media tour which included previous stops in Macau, Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore. The final tour stop will be at the Beverly Hills Hotel in California on Thursday. Pacquiao vs Rios will battle at The Venetian Macao Resort in Macau,China and will be televised live in the US, Saturday, Nov. 23, 9pm ET/6pm PT on HBO Pay-Per-View.