By Jim Dower: Dan Rafael is reporting that the Top Rank pay per view card for December 4th, with Julio Cesar Chavez J. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) vs. Alfonso Gomez (22-4-2, 11 KO’s) in the main event, is now official. The bout will be taking place at The Pond, in Anaheim, California. The following undercard matches will be shown: Humberto Soto vs. Urbano Antillon, Nonito Donaire vs. Wladimir Sidorenko, Brandon Rios vs. TBA, and Vanes Martirosyan vs. TBA. In a lot of ways, this card may actually be a better overall fight card compared to the November 13th fight card with Manny Pacquiao taking on Antonio Margarito, and Kelly Pavlik vs. Brian Vega on the undercard.

The December 4th card will likely go around $40 unless my guess, and it has a lot of potential depending on who they find for Rios and Martirosyan. There’s talk of Martirosyan being matched up against Pawel Wolak, and I’m not sure that I like that fight. I’d rather see Martirosyan matched up against a better fighter than Wolak, after seeing that Martirosyan was able to defeat Joe Greene without too many problems.

The Soto-Antillon fight is a decent bout, but I’d rather see Soto matched up against a better quality fighter like Roberto Guerrero, Miguel Vazquez, Ali Funeka, Miguel Acosta, Juan Diaz or Antonio DeMarco, to name just a small handful of fighters that I feel are better than Antillon.

It’s been ages since I’ve seen Soto matched up with a really good fighter, and I want to see him fight someone that actually has the talent to beat him. I don’t think Antillon has much of a chance in this fight. The Donaire-Sidorenko fight is okay, but I’d rather see Donaire finally get matched up with a quality opponent. He’s wasted the last three years of his career facing lesser fighters since beating Vic Darchinyan in 2007. It’s time Donaire steps up again against a quality fighter.