400 more tickets at $150 each available for Pavlik bout

YOUNGSTOWN — About 400 floor-level tickets, priced at $150 each, for the Feb. 21 Kelly Pavlik middleweight boxing title bout at the Chevrolet Centre will go on sale at 10 a.m. Wednesday.

The tickets became available because Top Rank, the fight’s promoter, didn’t need them for production use to broadcast the fight on pay-per-view, said Eric Ryan, the center’s executive director.

The tickets are the least expensive for seats on the center’s floor for the fight at $150. They’re located on the floor’s back corners, Ryan said.

The $150 tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Wednesday through ticketmaster.com; Ticketmaster’s locations including Giant Eagle and Macy’s, charge by telephone at (800) 754-3000, or at the center’s box office. There’s a limit of four tickets per purchase.

About 5,500 tickets — priced at $50, $100, $200, $300 and $500 — were sold 30 minutes after they went on sale Jan. 10. Overall, about 6,500 tickets have been sold for the fight. That makes Pavlik’s bout against Marco Antonio Rubio the event that’s sold more tickets than any other event at the center since it opened in October 2005.

Tickets for about 200 seats costing $200 and $300 are still available, Ryan said.

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