It turns out Mike Tyson’s fight with heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis isn’t such a hot ticket after all.
Despite claims of a record-breaking $23 million sellout, tickets are so plentiful it appears promoters seriously overestimated the attractiveness of a title bout in Memphis.
British fans aren’t coming, high rollers aren’t nibbling and it seems nobody wants to pay huge ticket prices to be in Tennessee in June, no matter how interesting the fight.
The lack of demand became even more evident Wednesday when promoters put another 3,500 seats back up for public sale, just 10 days before the June 8 fight.
So many tickets are on sale on Ticketmaster that buyers can get blocks of up to 16 seats in a row in all price levels except $250.
Say what?
`I loved it, but we’ve played a lot together, so it really wasn’t that much different.’
–Former tennis star Ivan Lendl on playing caddie for 10-year-old daughter Isabelle at the Connecticut Women’s Open golf tourney
