{
  "id": 13258004,
  "title": "Over 80,000 Tickets Sold in 60 Minutes for Joshua/Fury Clash",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/over-80-000-tickets-sold-in-60-minutes-for-joshua-fury-clash",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-09T23:45:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "This Day",
    "slug": "this-day",
    "url": "https://www.thisdaylive.com/2026/10/10/over-80000-tickets-sold-in-60-minutes-for-joshua-fury-clash-2/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Tickets for the heavyweight bout between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium sold out within an hour of going on sale. The event, announced in September, is set to take place on 12 December. Despite initial discussions of a fight happening at Wembley Stadium in London or Madison Square Garden in New York, Cardiff emerged as the suitable venue. The highest-priced tickets were priced at £13,128, including booking fees, while the lowest-priced tickets were sold at £88.50. The fight, broadcast globally on Netflix, was promoted as a partnership between Saudi boxing powerbroker Turki Alalshikh’s The Ring and UFC chief Dana White. Ticket sales began at 12:00 BST yesterday, and within minutes, over 500,000 people were already waiting in the online queue. Resale websites quickly began listing tickets, with VIP ringside seats advertised at £73,645 and upper tier seats available for £425. Ringwalks are expected to begin around 01:00 GMT on Saturday, following a brief live music performance. The stadium will remain open until 03:30. The undercard fights have yet to be confirmed, and while London’s Wembley and New York’s Madison Square Garden were initial favorites for the event, Cardiff was chosen due to its previous hosting of late-night boxing events.",
  "summary": "Tickets for Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua’s fight at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium have sold out in just one hour. Fury and Joshua will meet on a bill that begins on",
  "key_points": [
    "Over 80,000 tickets sold for Joshua vs Fury in 60 minutes",
    "Event set for December 12 at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium",
    "Tickets range from £88.50 to £13,128 with highest on resale"
  ],
  "editors_take": "The swift ticket sales underscore the huge global interest in the Joshua-Fury fight and put Cardiff in the spotlight as a viable venue for high-profile boxing events.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "This Day",
        "title": "Over 80,000 Tickets Sold in 60 Minutes for Joshua/Fury Clash",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/over-80-000-tickets-sold-in-60-minutes-for-joshua-fury-clash-13258005",
        "published": "2026-10-09T23:44:21.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}