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Weightclass:: Light Welterweight
Age:: 32
Birthplace:: Denver, Colorado
Record:: 34-1, 23 KOs

Height:: 5'9"
Reach:: 70
Managers:: Henry Delgado
Trainers:: Shann Vilhauer

biography

“Mile High”

Twitter: @MileHighMike303
Ranked WBO #3, IBF #6 at 140 pounds…
IBF Latino jr. welterweight champion, one successful defense…

At the age of 32, Mike is an eight-year pro. A contender at 140 pounds, he has an aggressive style, great strength and power, and always makes exciting fights.
He is coming off a seventh-round TKO loss against former WBA lightweight world champion Brandon Rios in his last fight on October 13 – both gave tremendous performances in one of the best fights of the year.
After the fight, Kevin Iole wrote on Yahoo! Sports [excerpts]: Bob Arum, who has promoted fights for 46 years, said it stands alongside the great matches he's ever seen.
"I put it right up there with [Muhammad] Ali-[Joe] Frazier, their third fight, the one in Manila, with [Marvelous Marvin] Hagler-[Thomas] Hearns, right up there with those fights," Arum said.
The bout was reminiscent of the classic 2005 scrap between Jose Luis Castillo and the late Diego Corrales, a match which ended in an almost identical manner. After a back-and-forth battle, Corrales pinned Castillo on the ropes and fired away until the bout was stopped.
That stood as the greatest fight of the 21st century until Saturday, when Rios and Alvarado put on a brutal brawl that may edge it from its perch.
Alvarado threw 779 punches in less than seven full rounds, landing 175, yet he still came out on the short end. He was ripping Rios with right hands and uppercuts, but Rios would smile and keep coming forward.
From the opening moments of the bout until the savage, unexpected finish, Alvarado was going toe-to-toe with Rios and giving as good as he got.
At the time of the stoppage, judges Max Deluca and Zach Young had it even, 57-57. Judge...

fight history

Fight by Fight – 2012 - VACANT WBO LATINO JW TITLE CHALLENGE - in his last fight on 10-13-12 in Carson, CA, he was TKOd against former WBA lightweight world champion Brandon Rios (30-0-1): the bout was co-featured with the Nonito Donaire-Toshiaki Nishioka main event, and it was a tremendous battle – one of the best fights of the year; both fought aggressively and kept very paces, both were rocked several times, and both were bruised and battered; almost round was close – after six rounds, the fight was scored 58-56 Rios, 57-57, 57-57; Rios staggered Mike with a right hand in the 7th round, then rocked him with a series of punches and the referee stopped the fight at 1:57; after the fight, Mike said, "Losing, man it sucks. I hate losing, but it's only going to make me stronger. I'm going to come back twice as strong. Maybe it's just what I needed to be a better fighter."...
On 4-14-12 in Las Vegas, NV, he won a 10 round unanimous decision against Mauricio Herrera (18-1): the fight was one of the co-features with the Brandon Rios-Richard Abril main event – it was fast-paced and exciting, and stole the show; Herrera boxed and moved well, and scored with sharp counterpunches, but Mike constantly pressed forward, landed the harder punches, and steadily wore him down; several rounds had almost nonstop exchanges, and several rounds were close; Herrera’s nose was bloodied in the 5th round and his eyes began to swell badly in the middle rounds, and both fought hard until the final bell; after the fight, Mike said, "Herrera was durable and tough. I could tell he trained hard, but his power was not enough. If I had stepped onto the gas more, I would have stopped him."…

2011 – 1ST IBF LATINO JW TITLE DEFENSE - on 11-12-11 in Las Vegas he TKOd Breidis Prescott (24-3): the bout was one of the co-featured fights with the Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel...

background

AMATEUR, PERSONAL BACKGROUND: Mike said, “I was born and raised and lived my whole life in Thornton, Colorado. But I’m announced from Denver - it’s a suburb of Denver. I have four sisters and one brother, I’m the second oldest. My dad’s a construction worker, he’s worked hard his whole life. My mom works at an eye laser-surgery place. I graduated from Skyview High School in Thornton, Colorado.
“My real dad was a boxer, also. His name was Ron Cisneros, he was the ‘Rocky Mountain Assassin,’ they said. I didn’t know him. I met him like, a few years ago. He passed away a few years ago. He was a tough guy. He could have gone a long way, but just kind of let it get to him after a while and didn’t take training as seriously as he should have.
“I took my stepfather’s last name out of respect for him when I was a freshman in high school. I don’t think of him as my stepfather, he’s just my father. He and my mom have been together since I was two years old. He took me underneath his wing, and raised the family and took care of me.
“My family were all wrestlers, my dad, my uncles and cousins. I started wrestling when I was four years old, and I competed until I was 18. That’s what I’ve done for my whole life. That’s where basically I learned my one-on-one discipline, the whole mental game, cutting weight, and all the other aspects.
“My dad was a big fan of it, he’d grown up wrestling in junior high and high school, all that. He kind of had dreams for me, you know, had a path for me laid out to make it in wrestling and maybe go to college and do the whole college wrestling thing. He was on me real strong, real strict about that. Always had me training real hard, had me in that zone just learning wrestling and that was it, it was all wrestling.
“I was good at it. It paid off, so I can’t...

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