One ambitious British entrepreneur is trying to resell a pair of tickets to the Anthony Joshua-Wladimir Klitschko heavyweight title fight for ?35,199 apiece.
That?s roughly $43,911 each for you American boxing fans counting at home.
According to a story posted to the London Daily Mail?s website Monday, that pair of tickets is available on viagogo.com, a ticket resale website. While located in the VIP ringside section, those two seats are in the 10th row.
Whether anyone would actually pay nearly $88,000 for a pair of tickets to Joshua-Klitschko remains to be seen. Demand is very high, however, because roughly 90,000 tickets already have been purchased for the sold-out heavyweight showdown April 29 at Wembley Stadium in London.
The cheapest Joshua-Klitschko tickets available Monday on viagogo.com were going for roughly ?100 apiece (about $125).
The most expensive Joshua-Klitschko tickets on other websites Monday also were extremely high.
On StubHub.com, the priciest seats were going for ?17,926 apiece ($22,365). On Seatwave.com, the most expensive seats were posted for ?1,869 apiece ($2,332).
The face value of tickets sold for Joshua-Klitschko ranged from ?40-?2,000 (roughly $50-$2,495).
With less than four weeks to go before the fight takes place, some of those absurdly high prices could drop as Joshua-Klitschko gets closer.
That?s what happened as we got closer to Mayweather-Pacquiao nearly two years ago. At one point, someone actually listed three ringside seats on StubHub.com and SeatGeek.com for a preposterous $351,000 apiece.
Ticket demand for Mayweather-Pacquiao was higher because it was billed as the biggest boxing match of the 21st century, it was held at the 16,000-seat MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and only 500 tickets were made available to the general public.
England?s Joshua (18-0, 18 KOs) and Ukraine?s Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs), who turned 41 last month, will fight for the IBF, IBO and WBA heavyweight titles.
