By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten #4 WBO heavyweight Tyson Fury (22-0, 16 KO’s) was bragging today about hearing the news from someone about 13,000 tickets having been sold for his scheduled July 26th rematch against European heavyweight champion Dereck Chisora (20-4, 13 KO’s) at the Phones 4u Arena in Manchester, UK.
Chisora and Fury will be fighting in a WBO heavyweight eliminator bout with the winner getting a title shot one of these days against WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko.
“Just been informed from my mate’s bird who works in ticket office that over 13 thousand tickets sold to see me smash the daft sparring partner [Chisora],” Fury said on his twitter.
If the 13,000 figure is accurate, then it means there are still 8,000 tickets unsold for the fight, because the Arena seats 21,000. I’m not sure that I’d be crowing about the fight having that many unsold seats if I were Fury.
Even 13,000 is still a huge amount of fans for what appears to be a simple domestic level fight. For fans who have seen the two of them fight in 2011, it would seem kind of difficult to get up for a second fight between them given that neither of them have done anything spectacular since that. Chisora took on David Haye and Vitali Klitschko, but he lost. You can’t really crown him for that, can you? Fury still hasn’t fought anyone good yet, and he recently struggled to defeat former IBF cruiserweight champion Steve Cunningham last year after getting dropped hard in the 2nd round from a scorching right hand to the head.
I’ll be very surprised if the Chisora-Fury II sells out. For 8,000 tickets to be sold in the last two weeks before the fight, it would be asking a lot. I think the interest in that fight has probably been tapped out pretty much unless the two of them can do something controversial in the next week or two get fans excited about the fight so that they can sell the Arena out.
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