Apparently all that's wrong with boxing's heavyweight picture can be fixed with geography. While the heavyweight division has drawn little to no interest in North America since Lennox Lewis retired, ticket sales for Wladimir Klitschko's fight versus David Haye on June 20th in Germany indicate another thing overseas.
The fight will take place in Schalke stadium, normally used for football/soccer and ticket sales have been huge thus far.
Bernd Boente, managing director of Klitschko's management group, said there was huge interest in the fight as soon as the tickets went on sale last week.
"We started ticket sales on Friday of last week and on the first day we sold 30,000," Boente said. "Today we have 47,000 tickets sold. We are very sure that the fight will be sold out. I think we will have something between 60-70,000 on fight night."
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