Fight Schedule

Thursday, Dec. 10, 1998 | 10 a.m.

Friday

At Rochester, Wash., John Palaki, Seattle, vs. Miguel Arrozal, Mexico, 12, lightweights.

At Pueblo, Colo, (Fox), Adan Vargas, Mexico, vs. Carlos Contreras, Mexico, 12, for Vargas' NABF bantamweight title; Glenn Robinson, New York, vs. Ray Berry, Sevierville, Tenn., light heavyweights.

At Ledyard, Conn., (Fox), Lawrence Clay-Bey, Hartford, vs. Alex Stewart, St. Petersburg, Fla., 10, heavyweights.

At Philadelphia, (ESPN2), Orlando Canizales, Laredo, vs. Richard DeJesus, Wilmington, Del., 10, featherweights.

Saturday

At Atlantic City, (HBO), Arturo Gatti, New York, vs. Ivan Robinson, Philadelphia, 10, lightweights; Fernando Vargas, New York, vs. Yory Boy Campas, Mexico, 12, for Campas' IBF junior middleweight title; Vernon Forrest, Atlanta, vs. TBA, 12, for Forrest's NABF welterweight title.

At Indio, Calif., (Univision), Enrique Sanchez, Mexico, vs. Nestor Garza, Mexico, 12, for Sanchez's WBA super bantamweight title; Antonio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., vs. Cory Spinks, St. Louis, 12, junior welterweights; Ray Lovato, Las Vegas, vs. Alfred Ankamah, 6, welterweights; Freddie Norwood, Las Vegas, vs. Moises Rodriguez, Mexico, 8, featherweights.

At Frankfurt, Germany, Dariusz Michalczewski, Germany, vs. Drake Thadzi, Malawi, 12, light heavyweights; Juan Carlos Gomez, Cuba, vs. Robert Norton, England, 12, for Gomez's WBC cruiserweight title.

Tuesday

At Tokyo, Kevin Palmer, Japan, vs. Ernie Alesna, Philippines, 12, middleweights.

December 18

At Sacramento, Diego Corrales, Sacramento, vs. Gary St. Clair, Guyana, 10, junior lightweights; Raul Franco, Long Beach, vs. Humberto Rodriguez, Mexico, 10, welterweights.

December 19

At Miami, (HBO), Floyd Mayweather, Las Vegas, vs. Angel Manfredy, Chicago, 12, for Mayweather's WBC junior lightweight title; Lamon Brewster, Los Angeles, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights; David Tua, New Zealand, vs. Hasim Rahman, New York, 12, for Rahman's USBA heavyweight title.

December 23

At Nagoya, Japan, Satoshi Iida, Japan, vs. Takato Toguchi, Japan, 12, for Iida's WBA junior bantamweight title.

December 26

At The Orleans, Las Vegas, TBA.

At Arizona Charlie's, Las Vegas, TBA.

December 27

At Seoul, South Korea, Injoo Cho, South Korea, vs. Joel Luna Zarate, Mexico, 12, for Cho's WBC junior bantamweight title.

December 29

At Osaka, Japan, Joichiro Tatsuyoshi, Japan, vs. Veeraphol Nakoniuan, Thailand, 12, for Tatsuyoshi's WBC bantamweight title; Toshiaki Nishioka, Japan, vs. Junichi Watanabe, Japan, 12, junior bantamweights.

January 8

At Ledyard, Conn., (ESPN2), Vinny Pazienza, Providence, vs. Undra White, St. Louis, 10, super middleweights; Ray Oliviera, New Bedford, Mass., vs. Fitz Vanderpool, Trindad, 10, welterweights.

January 15

At The Orleans, Las Vegas, (ESPN2), Angel Vazquez, Hartford, vs. Carlos Rios, Argentina, 10, featherweights.

January 16

At MGM, Las Vegas, (PPV), Mike Tyson, Brooklyn, vs. Frans Botha, South Africa, 10, heavyweights; Luisito Espinosa, Philippines, vs. Cesar Soto, Mexico, 12, for Espinosa's WBC featherweight title; Robert Garcia, Los Angeles, vs. John Molina, Puerto Rico, 12, for Garcia's IBF junior lightweight title; Zab Judah, New York, vs. Wilfredo Negron, Puerto Rico, 12, for Judah's USBA junior welterweight title.

January 22

At The Orleans, Las Vegas, TBA.

January 23

At Houston, George Foreman, Houston, vs. Larry Holmes, Easton, Pa., 10, heavyweights.

At Tokyo, Jess Maca, Philippines, vs. Shin Yamato, Japan, 12, bantamweights.

January 25

At Versailles, France, Jean Baptiste Mendy, France, vs. Alberto Sicurella, Argentina, 12, for Mendy's WBA lightweight title.

January 29

At LaCoruna, Spain, (ESPN2), Keith Mullings, Brooklyn, vs. Javier Castillejo, Spain, 12, for Mullings' WBC junior middleweight title.

At Ledyard, Conn., (ESPN2), Dana Rosenblatt, Malden, Mass., vs. Aaron Davis, Bronx, 10, middleweights; Don Diego Poeder, Netherlands, vs. Terry Pitts, Detroit, 10, light heavyweights.

January 30

At Atlantic City, (HBO), Michael Grant, New York, vs. Ahmed Abdin, New York, 12, for vacant NABF heavyweight title; Andrew Golota, Poland, vs. David Izon, New York, 10, heavyweights.

At Cottbus, Germany, Freeman Barr, Naples, Fla., vs. Bert Schenk, Germany, 12, middleweights.

February 6

At Tokyo, Kengo Nagashima, Japan, vs. Yuji Watanabe, Japan, 12, junior lightweights.

February 12

At The Orleans, Las Vegas, (ESPN2), TBA.

February 13

At Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, Oscar De La Hoya, East Los Angeles, vs. Ike Quartey, Ghana, 12, for De La Hoya's WBC welterweight title; Oba Carr, Detroit, vs. Frankie Randall, Las Vegas, 10, welterweights; Butterbean Esch, Jasper, Ala., vs. TBA, 4, heavyweights.

At Tokyo, Takanori Hatakeyama, Japan, vs. Saul Duran, Mexico, 12, for Hatakeyama's WBA junior lightweight title.

March 13

At New York, (PPV), Evander Holyfield, Atlanta, vs. Lennox Lewis, England, 12, for Holyfield's WBA and IBF heavyweight titles and Lewis' WBA heavyweight title.