Fury-Joshua tickets at Principality Stadium sell out within one hour

Tickets for Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua's fight at Cardiff's Principality Stadium sold out within one hour after going on sale at 12:00 BST on Friday. The bout is on a bill that begins on 11 December, with the two heavyweights not expected to meet in the ring until the early hours of 12 December.

Around 80,000 tickets were made available when sales opened. The most expensive seats were priced at £13,128 including booking fees while the cheapest were £88.50. The all-British heavyweight contest was announced in September and will be broadcast globally on Netflix. Just minutes after the sale began more than 500,000 people were reported to be waiting in the online queue.

Tickets quickly started appearing on resale websites, with ringside VIP seats advertised for £73,645 while upper-tier seats were listed at £425.

The Principality Stadium has hosted late-night boxing before, including Joe Calzaghe's fight with Mikkel Kessler in November 2007, which began at 01:00 GMT. Ricky Hatton's victory over Kostya Tszyu at Manchester's MEN Arena in 2005 began at about 02:00 local time, allowing US broadcaster Showtime to show the fight on Saturday evening.

The event is being promoted as a collaboration between Turki Alalshikh's The Ring and UFC chief Dana White. There was uncertainty about whether the fight would take place 11 days ago because of a dispute over White's role: Netflix said Alalshikh's The Ring and White would collaborate, but Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn said his fighter's contract prevented White from having a promotional role. The British rivals met at a news conference on 30 September to begin the build-up.

Joshua, 36, and Fury, 38, are both former two-time world champions and signed contracts for the bout earlier this year, though the date and venue had not been confirmed until the Cardiff announcement. London's Wembley Stadium and New York's Madison Square Garden were reported as earlier frontrunners to stage the fight but presented issues before Cardiff emerged as an alternative.

Organisers are yet to confirm any of the undercard fights. Fury and Joshua are reported to be sharing a purse worth close to $200m (£151m).