Tickets for the blockbuster showdown between British heavyweight rivals Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua were snapped up within an hour, with more than 500,000 fans reportedly joining the online queue.
Around 80,000 tickets were made available for the December 11 bout at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium in Wales, with the main event expected to begin in the early hours of December 12, BBC Sport reported on Friday.
Sales opened at 12:00 BST, with prices ranging from £88.50 to £13,128, including booking fees.
The fight, announced in September, will stream globally on Netflix and is being promoted jointly by Turki Alalshikh’s The Ring and UFC chief Dana White.
Despite the sell-out, tickets quickly surfaced on resale platforms, with ringside VIP seats listed for as much as £73,645 and upper-tier tickets advertised at £425.
The fighters are expected to make their ringwalks around 01:00 GMT on December 12, after a live music performance, with the stadium due to close at 03:30 GMT.
Fury, 38, and Joshua, 36, are both former two-time world champions who signed contracts for the contest earlier this year, although the date and venue were yet to be finalised.
Wembley Stadium in London and Madison Square Garden in New York were initially considered before Cardiff was selected.
The Principality Stadium has hosted major late-night boxing events, including Joe Calzaghe’s November 2007 victory over Mikkel Kessler, which began at 01:00 GMT.
Ricky Hatton’s 2005 win over Kostya Tszyu at Manchester’s MEN Arena also started at around 02:00 local time to suit US broadcaster Showtime’s Saturday evening schedule.
The fight announcement followed uncertainty over promotional arrangements, with a dispute arising over White’s involvement.
Netflix had confirmed that The Ring and White would jointly promote the event, but Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, argued that his fighter’s contract barred White from taking on a promotional role.
Fury and Joshua eventually appeared together at a news conference on September 30 to launch the build-up to what is expected to rank among British boxing’s biggest contests.
The pair are reportedly set to share a purse approaching $200 million (£151 million).
