Fight schedule

Thursday, April 16, 1998 | 6:05 a.m.

Friday

At The Orleans, James Crayton, Las Vegas, vs. Margarito Navarro, Mexico, 10, lightweights.

At Uncasville, Conn., (Fox), Wayne McCullough, Las Vegas, vs. Guillermo Noriega, Mexico, 10, super bantamweights; Ben Tackie, Los Angeles, vs. Edwin Santana, Dominican Republic, 12, lightweights; Lawrence Clay-Bey, Hartford, vs. Abdul Azem Muhaymin, Cleveland, 6, heavyweights; Peter McNeeley, Boston, vs. Jerry Halstead, Oklahoma City, 10, heavyweights; Derrick Harmon, Chicago, vs. Hector Sanjurjo, Boston, 6, light heavyweights.

Saturday

At Arizona Charlie's, Rudy Nix, Yakima, vs. Cesar Rendon, Mexico, 10, cruiserweights; Derrick James, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 8, light heavyweights.

At Manchester, England, (HBO), Naseem Hamed, England, vs. Wilfredo Vazquez, Puerto Rico, 12, featherweights; Jan Bergman, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, junior welterweights; Obed Sullivan, Houston, vs. Herbie Hide, England, 12, heavyweights.

At Los Angeles, Antonio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., vs. Alberto Cortes, Argentina, 12, junior welterweights; Oba Carr, Detroit, vs. Juan Rodriguez, Mexico, 10, welterweights; Diego Corrales, Sacramento, vs. Manuel Arrelano, Mexico, 8, junior lightweights; Augie Sanchez, Las Vegas, vs. Kino Rodriguez, North Hollywood, 8, featherweights; Floyd Mayweather, Las Vegas, vs. Gustavo Cuello, Argentina, 10, junior lightweights.

Monday

At Inglewood, Calif., Guty Espadas, Mexico, vs. Agapito Sanchez, Dominican Republic, 10, featherweights; Jesus Chong, Mexico, vs. Ramon Hurtado, Panama, 10, junior flyweights.

Tuesday

At Lake Charles, La., (USA), Hasim Rahman vs. Steve Pannell, 12, for Rahman's USBA heavyweight title; Larry Donald, Cincinnati, vs. Ross Puritty, Dallas, 10, heavyweights.

April 23

At Port Chester, N.Y., David Telesco, Port Chester, vs. Jay Snyder, Spartanburg, S.C., 12, light heavyweights.

At Oklahoma City, Cliff Couser, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights; Limmie Young, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 4, light heavyweights.

April 24

At San Jose, Hector Lizarraga, Fresno, vs. Manuel Medina, Mexico, 12, for Lizarraga's IBF featherweight title.

At Sarasota, Fla., Hector Camacho vs. TBA, 10, welterweights; Razor Ruddock vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights.

At Plymouth, Mass., Mike Culbert, Brockton, vs. Glenn DiMasse, Stoneham, Mass., 12, light heavyweights.

April 25

At Biloxi, Miss., (HBO), Roy Jones, Pensacola, vs. Virgil Hill, Bismarck, 12, light heavyweights.

At Cardiff, Wales, Joe Calzaghe, England, vs. Juan Carlos Gimenez, Puerto Rico, 12, super middleweights.

April 27

At Carson, Calif., Yosuke Nishijima, Japan, vs. Armando Campas, Mexico, 12, light heavyweights.

April 28

At Philadelphia, (USA), Joseph Kiwanuka, Las Vegas, vs. Demetrius Davis, Washington, 10, super middleweights; Thomas Tate, Houston, vs. Anwar Oshana, Chicago, 12, for Tate's NABF super middleweight title.

May 1

At San Antonio, (Fox), Adan Vargas, Mexico, vs. Ancee Gdeeon, Hawaii, 12, for Vargas' NABF bantamweight title; James Leija, San Antonio, vs. Dezi Ford, Akron, 10, lightweights; Lance Whitaker, Los Angeles, vs. Willie Phillips, Sharon, Pa., 8, heavyweights.

May 2

At Nimes, France, (Showtime), Fabrice Tiozzo, France, vs. Terry Ray, Terre Haute, Ind., 12, for Tiozzo's WBA cruiserweight title; Keith Holmes, Washington, vs. Hassine Cherifi, France, 12, for Holmes' WBC middleweight title.

May 5

At Biloxi, Miss., (USA), Don Diego Poeder, Netherlands, vs. Robert Daniels, Miami, 12, cruiserweights; Vassiliy Jirov, Scottsdale, vs. Richard LaMontagne, Everett, Mass., 12, cruiserweights; Zahir Raheem, Philadelphia, vs. Noel Rodriguez, Puerto Rico, 6, featherweights.

May 8

At Atlantic City, (USSB), Andrew Golota, Chicago, vs. Guy Sonnenberg, Salt Lake City, 10, heavyweights.

At St. George, Utah, TBA.

May 9

At Atlantic City, (HBO), Shane Mosley, Pomona, Calif., vs. John John Molina, Puerto Rico, 12, for Mosley's IBF lightweight title; David Reid, Philadelphia, vs. Nick Rupa, Canada, 8, junior middleweights.

May 12

At Ottawa, Otis Grant, Toronto, vs. Aaron Davis, New York, 12, middleweights.

May 16

At Boise, (ESPN2), Kenny Keene, Emmett, Idaho, vs. Rocky Gannon, Las Vegas, 12, cruiserweights; Todd Foster, Great Falls, Mont., vs. TBA, 8, junior middleweights; Paulie Ayala, Ft. Worth, vs. TBA, 10, bantamweights.

At Indio, Calif., (PPV), Genaro Hernandez, East Los Angeles, vs. Carlos Gerena, Puerto Rico, 12, for Hernandez's WBC junior lightweight title; Erik Morales, Mexico, vs. Jose Luis Bueno, Mexico, 12, for Morales' WBC super bantamweight title; Daniel Santos, Puerto Rico, vs. TBA, 10, welterweights; Cesar Soto, Mexico, vs. Jose Ayala, Puerto Rico, 10, featherweights.

At South Africa, Vuyani Bungu, South Africa, vs. Ernesto Gray, Puerto Rico, 12, super bantamweights.

At Atlantic City, Meldrick Taylor, Philadelphia, vs. Lonnie Smith, Denver, 12, welterweights; Alex Stewart, England, vs. Iran Barkley, Bronx, 10, heavyweights.

May 19

At Corpus Christi, (USA), Robert McCracken, England, vs. Bo James, Newark, 10, middleweights.

May 22

At Monroe, Mich., (ESPN), Bronco McKart, Pontiac, vs. Carl Daniels, Cincinnati, 12, junior middleweights; Adolfo Washington, Chicago, vs. Orlin Norris, San Diego, 12, cruiserweights.

May 30

At Las Vegas Hilton, (Showtime), Laurent Boudouani, France, vs. Guillermo Jones, Panama, 12, for Boudouani's WBA junior middleweight title.

At Los Angeles, Carlos Palomino, Mexico, vs. Wilfredo Rivera, Puerto Rico, 10, welterweights.

At Lepizig, Germany, Axel Schulz, Germany, vs. Scott Welch, England, 12, heavyweights.

At Atlantic City, (HBO), Michael Grant, Norristown, Pa., vs. Obed Sullivan, Houston, 12, heavyweights; Chris Byrd, Flint, vs. Eliecer Castillo, Miami, 10, heavyweights.

June 6

At New York, Evander Holyfield, Atlanta, vs. Henry Akinwande, England, 12, for Holyfield's WBA heavyweight title; Johnny Tapia, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 12, junior bantamweights; Cliff Couser, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights.

At Liverpool, England, Kennedy McKinney, Memphis, vs. Richie Wenton, England, 12, super bantamweights.

June 13

At Atlantic City, (ABC), Floyd Mayweather, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, junior lightweights; Eric Morel, Madison, Wis., vs. TBA, 8, flyweights.

At El Paso, (HBO), Oscar De La Hoya, Los Angeles, vs. Patrick Charpentier, France, 12, for De La Hoya's WBC welterweight title; Stevie Johnston, Denver, vs. Cesar Bazan, Mexico, 12, lightweights; Cesar Soto, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, featherweights.

June 14

At Atlantic City, (ESPN2), Oba Carr, Detroit, vs. Willy Wise, Westbury, N.Y., 10, welterweights.

June 25

At Ledyard, Conn., (PPV), Buster Douglas, Ohio, vs. Lou Savarese, New York, 12, heavyweights; Dana Rosenblatt, Malden, Mass., vs. TBA, 10, middleweights; Israel Cardona, Hartford, vs. Richie Kiley, New York, 10, lightweights.