When Mike Alvarado is introduced to his home crowd in Denver before his much-anticipated fight with Ruslan Provodnikov on Oct. 19 (HBO) -- which we all expect to be a fight of the year candidate -- he will not be introduced with the interim tag attached to his 140-pound title. That is because Alvarado will soon be elevated by the WBO to the organization's full titleholder when Juan Manuel Marquez vacates. At the recently concluded WBO annual convention, which wrapped up a few days ago in Budapest, one of the many rulings that the organization made was that Marquez would be allowed to enter the ring for his challenge of welterweight titleholder Timothy Bradley Jr.
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