Photo credit: Alma Montiel – By Dan Ambrose: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is incredibly happy with the amount of tickets sold for Saturday’s bout between WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (44-0-1, 31 KO’s) and challenger Marco Antonio Rubio (53-5-1, 46 KO’s) at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas.
Chavez-Rubio will be the feature bout on the HBO televised bout, and Nonito Donaire vs. Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. will be the co-feature in a fight for the vacant WBO super bantamweight title. Arum says that 10,000 tickets have sold for the fight, according to Dan Rafael, and he expects 13,000 to be sold by Saturday night. That’s a respectable number for a card like this as none of the fighters involved are at the super star level as of yet.