Fight schedule

Monday, May 12, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.

National TV in parentheses

May 12

At Great Western Forum, Inglewood, Calif., Jesse Magana, Hanford, Calif., vs. Alfred Kotey, Ghana, 12, for the vacant WBO International junior featherweight title; Demetrio Ceballos, Panama, vs. Oscar Natalio Lopez, Argentina, 12, for the vacant NABO lightweight title.

May 13

At Grand Casino, Biloxi, Miss. (USA), James "Buster" Douglas, Columbus, Ohio, vs. Louis Monaco, Denver, 10, heavyweights; Billy Irwin, Toronto, vs. Andre Cray, Columbus, Ohio, 10, lightweights.

May 14

At Foxwoods Resort and Casino, Ledyard, Conn. (DIRECTV), James Toney, Ann Arbor, Mich., vs. Drake Thadzi, Boston, 12, for the vacant IBO light heavyweight title; Lucia Rijker, Los Angeles, vs. Dora Webber, Paterson, N.J., 8, lightweights.

May 16

At The Carousel Hotel and Casino, South Africa, Philip Holiday, South Africa, vs. Pete Taliaferro, Mobile, Ala., 12, for the IBF lightweight title.

May 23

At Charlotte County Memorial Auditorium, Punta Gorda, Fla., Freeman Barr, Naples, Fla., vs. Roosevelt Booth, Bradenton, Fla., 12, for Barr's IBC Americas middleweight title; David Armstrong, Cape Coral, Fla., vs. Alexis Barcelay, Miami, 12, for the vacant NABU lightweight title.

May 25

At Boston (ESPN2), Israel Cardona, Hartford, Conn., vs. Charles Murray, Rochester, N.Y., 10, welterweights.

May 28

At Gold Coast, Australia, Joe Bugner, Australia, vs, Waisiki Ligaloa, Fiji, 12, for Bugner's Pan Asian Boxing Association heavyweight title.

May 31

At the Taj Mahal, Atlantic City, N.J. (HBO), Kostya Tszyu, Russia, vs. Vince Phillips, Las Vegas, 12, for Tszyu's IBF junior welterweight title; Samson Po'uha, Tonga, vs. Jesse Ferguson, Knightdale, N.C., 10, heavyweights; Vasilly Jirov, Kazakhstan, vs. Gesses Mesgana, Washington, 8, cruiserweights.

At TBA, Johnny McClain, Las Vegas, vs. Michael Lindblad, Sweden, 12, for the WBU super cruiserweight title.

At O'Connor Field House, Caldwell, Idaho, Kenny Keene, Emmett, Idaho, vs. Robert Clevenger, New Port, Tenn., 10, cruiserweights.

June 3

At The Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Courage Tshabalala, South Africa, vs. Darroll Wilson, Atlantic City, N.J., 10, heavyweights; Bronco McKart, Monroe, Mich., vs. Glenwood Brown, Willingboro, N.J., 10, junior middleweights.

June 7

At Ruidoso (N.M.) Convention Center, Eric Holland, Alamogordo, N.M., vs. Shibata Flores, Mexico, 15, for Holland's WBB Classic light middleweight title.

At Sacramento, Calif. (HBO), Jose Luis Lopez, Mexico, vs. Aaron Davis, Bronx, N.Y., 10, middleweights.

June 8

At Hollywood, Calif. (ESPN2), Gerrie Coetzee, South Africa, vs. Iran Barkley, Bronx, N.Y., 10, heavyweights.

June 11

At Mountaineer Race Track, Chester, W.Va. (DIRECTV), Hector Camacho, Puerto Rico, vs. Dan Connolly, Pittsburgh, 10, welterweights.

June 13

At Arena Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany, Virgil Hill, Williston, N.D., vs. Darius Michalczewski, Sweden, 12, for the WBA light heavyweight titles.

June 14

At Alamodome, San Antonio (HBO), Oscar De La Hoya, East Los Angeles, Calif., vs. David Kamau, Kenya, 12, for De La Hoya's WBC welterweight title; Genaro Hernandez, East Los Angeles, Calif., vs. Anatoly Alexandrov, Russia, 12, for Hernandez's WBC junior lightweight title.

At TBA (ABC), Stevie Johnston, Denver, vs. Joel Diaz, Mexico, 12, for the WBC lightweight title.

At Grand Casino, Biloxi, Miss. (CBS), James Toney, Ann Arbor, Mich., vs. Steve Little, Reading, Pa., 12, for the IBO light heavyweight title.

June 15

At Foxwoods Resort and Casino, Ledyard, Conn. (ESPN2), Don Diego Poeder, Netherlands, vs. Terry Ray, Terre Haute, Ind., 12, for the vacant WBU cruiserweight title.

At Grand Casino, Biloxi, Miss. (CBS), James "Buster" Douglas, Columbus Ohio vs. Ross Puritty, Phoenix, 10, heavyweights.

June 28

At MGM Grand, Las Vegas (PPV), Evander Holyfield, Atlanta, vs. Mike Tyson, Southington Township, Ohio, 12, for Holyfield's WBA heavyweight title.

At Germany, Graciano Rocchigiani, Germany, vs. Frank Tate, Detroit, 12, for the WBU light heavyweight title.

July 18

At The Las Vegas Hilton (HBO), Johnny Tapia, Albuquerque, N.M., vs. Danny Romero, Albuquerque, N.M., 12, for Tapia's WBO and Romero's IBF junior bantamweight titles; Michael Carbajal, Phoenix, vs. Jake Matlala, South Africa, 12, for Carbajal's IBA and Matlala's WBO light flyweight titles.