21 Nov 2016

Ticket sales stall for Parker/Ruiz fight

4:18 pm on 21 November 2016

A stall in ticket sales has led to the promoters of Joseph Parker's World Boxing Organisation heavyweight title fight dropping ticket prices.

Joseph Parker

Joseph Parker Photo: AFP

The bout between Parker and the undefeated Mexican- American Andy Ruiz will be held at Auckland's Vector Arena on December 10.

So far 8,000 of the 10,000 tickets available for the fight have sold.

But the chief executive of the bout's promoters DUCO, Martin Sneddon, said mid-range tickets have been slow to sell.

The price for those seats will now be $199 - half the original cost.

Sneddon said an announcement on the pay-per-view cost for the fight on Sky will be announced next week.

- RNZ