More Pavlik fight tickets on sale at 10 a.m. today


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. today.

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.

The $150 tickets go on sale 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.

There are six fights on the Feb. 21 undercard. The center will open at 7 p.m., with the first bout at 7:30.

The Pavlik-Rubio fight for the former’s WBO/WBC title is expected to start between 10:45 and 11:15.