Brandon Rios vs Diego Chaves

Considering everything it took just to get Diego Chaves (with the current record of 23-1 19KO's) to Las Vegas to prepare him for his match against his latest opponent in the form of Brandon "Bam Bam" Rios (current record of 31-2-1 23KO's), fans expect it to be as good as the money they paid for the tickets.

Lasting until an agonizing afternoon on a Wednesday, Chaves was going through issues concerning his visa in order for him to travel from Argentina to the United States for this Saturday's bout at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. There was a justifiable reason that the Argentine would have to be replaced for the show to go on.

Astonishingly, the promoter of Top Rank Bob Arum was able to use his influence to pull off a few strings in order for the processing to go along a little bit faster and smoothly.

This is what Bob had to say:

"We had Harry Reid's office helping us with the consulate in Buenos Aires. The computer couldn't spit out the visa that had already been approved. It wasn't a boxing problem or a problem with Chaves, like the kid did anything wrong or anything. It was a computer problem that is affecting thousands of people waiting for visas. It's costing businesses in the United States a lot of money. Sen. Reid knows this is an important event for Las Vegas and his office went to bat on it and accomplished a miracle. It shows you how invested he is in Las Vegas and Nevada. Without him and Christina Martinez (Sen. Reid's aide) we would not have a fight.

Now that everything is ready and set for the bout, anymore technical difficulties we should experience along the way should be of no problem to the staff... This bout will be an exciting one and action packed!