New York ? It turns out Mike Tyson’s fight with heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis isn’t such a hot ticket after all.

Despite claims of a record-breaking $23 million sellout, tickets are so plentiful it appears promoters seriously overestimated the attractiveness of a title bout in Memphis, Tenn.

British fans aren’t coming, high rollers aren’t nibbling and it seems nobody wants to pay huge ticket prices to be in Tennessee in June, no matter how interesting the fight.

That means promoters could end up with the embarrassment of lots of empty seats at the Pyramid Arena for the biggest fight since Tyson bit Evander Holyfield five years ago.

Some estimate just over half of the 19,000-plus tickets have actually been sold to fans. Most of the others are in the hands of ticket brokers.

Many of the tickets apparently come from the Lewis camp, which bought about 6,000 to resell to British tour operators only to find little interest among Lewis’ countrymen to go to Memphis.

“It’s a marquee matchup but they have a lot of things working against them,” said Rafael Rivas, vice president of sales at ticketcity.com, an Internet ticket broker. “If it was in Vegas, there would be a lot more demand.”