Around 80,000 tickets sold out on Friday after fans snapped up tickets for the hotly-anticipated fight, which will be held in Cardiff in the early hours of December 12

Boxing fans were spoiling for a fight after hundreds of the least expensive tickets for Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua's super-bout were on sale for up to five times face value.

Passes in the upper tier at Cardiff's Principality Stadium, which had been sold from £88.50, are now being listed for up to £491, while other ordinary tickets in the stands are being offered for thousands of pounds. Meanwhile, ringside seats are also being offered for a staggering £73,000 - thought to be £60,000 more than the original price.

All of the tickets for the all-British fight sold out in less than an hour on Friday after more than 500,000 people joined the online queue just minutes after they went on sale. The official sale saw regular tickets sold on Ticketmaster from £88.50 to £13,128, including fees.

Touts are now offering them on platforms including Stubhub, Hello Tickets and ViaGogo, as well as on social media. One disgruntled fan said: "It's a disgrace. This is the biggest fight in decades for boxing fans and yet again we're being taken advantage of by scalpers. Something needs to be done about it. It's a liberty." There is no suggestion the resale sites, or sellers, are breaking any laws.

On X, @Tonypem said: "I’ve missed a trick here, I’ve just heard that the tickets for Fury Joshua which were £13k ringside are on resale for £75k each... should’ve bought a couple of em, that’s some return." @2pintWonder added: "This has to stop".

Ticketmaster bosses had already been hit by complaints from fans angry that they were being forced to buy coach tickets while buying their seats for the fight after a selection of passes were only made available with return coach travel between the Welsh capital and major cities including London, Manchester and Birmingham.

The fight between former world champions 'AJ' and 'The Gypsy King' is being described as the biggest match-up in British boxing history and will take place in the early hours of the morning UK-time on December 12 to cater for an international audience. There will be around 80,000 fans inside the stadium, with millions more watching from around the world on Netflix.

The event was finally announced last month after years of speculation over whether it would ever take place. Saudi boxing chief Turki Alalshikh, who is financing the event, initially wanted it to be staged at New ⁠York's Madison Square Garden and reportedly had to accept a loss of £50million in revenue to stage the bout on British soil.

Joshua ’s promoter Eddie Hearn has also claimed his man had to sacrifice at least £10million by pushing for the fight to be held in the UK, but according to reports the purse to be shared by the two fighters will still be around £150million.

Fury, who was won 36 professional fights, is reportedly worth £162million. Opponent AJ, who has triumphed on 30 occasions, is said to be enjoy an even greater fortune, of £240m.

The mark up anger comes just weeks after tickets for the Oasis Live ’27 tour began appearing on resale sites for as much as £2,433 each, as touts cashed in on desperate fans.

England soccer fans heading to last summer's World Cup in North America faced huge mark ups too.