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Some looking to profit from free tickets to Ali services

Members of the public stand in line with a newspaper image of Muhammad Ali while waiting for the box office to open for tickets to Ali's memorial service Friday at the KFC Yum! Center Wednesday, June 8, 2016, in Louisville, Ky. Ali's memorial service Friday looms as one of the most historic events in Louisville's history. (AP Photo/David Goldman) Members of the public stand in line with a newspaper image of Muhammad Ali while waiting for the box office to open for tickets to Ali's memorial service Friday at the KFC Yum! Center Wednesday, June 8, 2016, in Louisville, Ky. Ali's memorial service Friday looms as one of the most historic events in Louisville's history. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

By Associated Press June 8, 2016 1 min read

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – Muhammad Ali insisted the tickets for his memorial be free. But some people are looking to turn a profit.

People started arriving outside the KFC Yum! Center late Tuesday in downtown Louisville, ahead of the Wednesday morning ticket distribution. The line stretched around the arena. All 15,000-plus tickets for Ali’s memorial service Friday were claimed within an hour.

Some ticket holders immediately went online offering to sell their tickets.

Others posted online pleas to buy tickets. One wrote that he and his mother were driving in from Chicago for the service for the boxing great and willing to pay $50 for two tickets.

One of the posters offering to sell tickets reached by phone said a friend of his sold tickets to the memorial service. When asked for how much, he hung up.