The heavyweight showdown between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua is on course to produce the biggest gate in British boxing history, with ticket sales projected at $34m (£26m).
British-Nigerian Joshua and Fury will meet on December 11 at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, in a fight worth close to £150m to both fighters.
The rivalry has been more than a decade in the making.
About 80,000 tickets were sold in roughly an hour, with prices ranging from £80 to £13,000 for the best seats. More than 500,000 people were in the online queue.
Zuffa Boxing’s Dana White, who is involved in a personal capacity alongside Turki Alalshikh rather than as an official promoter, disclosed the projected figure. He told Sky Sports that fewer than 700 tickets remained.
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“You can consider this thing a sellout already. We have this thing scaled for around $34 million,” White said.
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