learned.

Officers swooped on Scandal Night Club during Friday night's televised showing of the heavyweight championship fight between Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe.

It followed complaints from an alert ticket-taker at the Front Street club.

He noticed a difference in the colouring of the ticket numbers.

At least six people with forged tickets are thought to have entered the club before the racket was discovered.

Police yesterday revealed they had confiscated 11 tickets.

And they said two men, from Devonshire and Hamilton Parish, were helping with inquiries.

Neither of the men, aged 27 and 30, have been charged.

"We are still investigating the matter. There is a possibility of more arrests,'' a Police spokesman said.

Tickets for last weekend's title showdown were being sold for $35.

It is believed the racket organisers had been selling them on the cheap.

Organiser of the closed circuit TV showings was Mr. Eddie DeMello, who runs DeMello Productions.

The fight was shown live at Scandal, the Bermuda Athletic Association club house, and the Prison Officers' Recreation Club.

It is believed the counterfeit tickets were confined to Scandal's.

But Mr. DeMello said yesterday he would be double checking ticket sales at the other two venues.

He said he believed up to 16 counterfeit tickets had been uncovered.

"It's impossible at this stage to know the extent of the counterfeiting,'' he added.

Mr. DeMello said the racket was exposed because the colouring of the forged tickets was black, instead of red.

"A few fellows got inside the club before we caught on to what was happening.

"It would have been impossible to identify them because the room was dark.

"I called the Police once a ticket taker had told me about the different tickets. It's now a Police matter.'' Mr. DeMello described the forgeries as "terrific'', and the work of a professional.

"There was no way of distinguishing them from the genuine ones, apart from the numerical colouring.'' Mr. DeMello said he had been organising televised showings of boxing for many years -- but this was the first ticket racket he had seen.

"At least it's first time one has been uncovered,'' he added.

Mr. DeMello said he would be investigating other ways of printing tickets to thwart future counterfeiting.

Despite the forgeries, Mr. DeMello described Friday's screening as a "great success'', with around 1,000 tickets sold.

Friday's was the second ticket scam to hit Bermuda this year, after gatecrashers cost veteran concert promoter Mr. Choy Aming around $60,000 in July.

Some 1,300 fans used false tickets or scaled fences and walls to get into a reggae festival at the National Stadium.

Mr. Aming later changed his ticket printing method.