With less than three weeks to go before the biggest heavyweight fight in Britain for generations, tickets to see Anthony Joshua do battle with Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley Stadium are being offered for sale at £30,000 each.
While the 90,000 tickets for the 29 April fight sold out weeks ago, some are being offered on resale sites, including Viagogo and StubHub.
However, even the cheapest seats, a long way from the action in Wembley’s upper tier, are changing hands for more than £100 and ringside seats are upwards of £10,000 – with some sellers demanding three times that much.
As the hype and the cost of tickets builds, Joshua has revealed he is aiming to become boxing’s first billionaire.
The undefeated British heavyweight, who will be fighting for the IBF, IBO and WBA heavyweight crowns at Wembley, told GQ Magazine: “I need to be a billionaire.
“Being a millionaire is good, but you have to set your sights higher. If I’m making £10 million from my next fight, my next target has to be making ten times that and if I get to £100m, £150m, why not go for the billion?
“I know self-made billionaires. It’s hard, but it’s possible.”
Klitschko, meanwhile, is determined to win back his heavyweight title at the age of 41, almost 18 months after he lost to Tyson Fury.
“In the months, weeks and days before the Fury loss there was a comfortable, relaxed feeling surrounding Klitschko and that has now been replaced by a far more serious mood, just a tiny smile the safe side of malevolent,” says Steve Bunce of The Independent.
He warns that the Ukrainian was “broken” by the defeat to Fury but has rediscovered his resolve and is “desperate” and “dangerous” now he has a “chance at redemption”.
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