A total of 55,000 fight fans now have tickets to UFC 129 in Toronto, making the mixed martial arts title fight a sellout and setting new attendance records.
That was 13,000 more than expected and nearly double the UFC's previous attendance record, set last December when more than 23,000 fans lined up to see UFC 124 in Montreal.
Fans lined up for hours to snap up tickets ranging in price from $50 to $800.
Toronto's appetite for the UFC is proving to be near insatiable. The mixed martial arts juggernaut sold its entire original ticket block -- more than 42,000 tickets -- in the first day of sales Thursday.
Some fight fans even paid a premium of almost $90 to join the UFC fan club that had first crack at the tickets for the UFC's first event in Ontario.
"To say the response was overwhelming would be an understatement," said Tom Wright, the UFC's director of Canadian operations. "In less than an hour we were pretty well down to some singles (tickets)."
Just minutes after the second block of tickets went on sale Friday, the UFC decided it needed to make several thousand more available so there would be some left for the general public.
Welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre will headline UFC 129, the sport's debut in Toronto, defending his title against Jake Shields at the Rogers Centre on April 30.
The UFC had been looking at having heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez meet Brazilian banger Junior Dos Santos in Toronto but Velasquez has been sidelined by a torn rotator cuff.
Some of those who managed to buy tickets Thursday were quick to put them up for resale. One seller offered eight side-by-side seats in Section 115 -- face value of $150 each -- for $4,500, or $562.50 each.
Another on Craigslist offered two $50 tickets for $175 each "or highest bidder."
The Rogers Centre says its capacity is 46,105 for baseball and 46,374 for football, not including luxury suite seats, but is rearranging its seating to accommodate the extra fans.
