Fight schedule — May 28, 1998
Thursday, May 28, 1998 | 10:40 a.m.
Tonight
At White Plains, N.Y., Dale Brown, Canada, vs. Leslie Stewart, Trinidad, 12, for Brown's NABF cruiserweight title; Joseph Kiwanuka, Las Vegas, vs. Eric Lucas, Canada, 12, super middleweights; Reggie Green, Tuxedo, Md., vs. Jose Soto, Toms River, N.J., 12, for Green's NABF junior welterweight title; Donnie Lalonde, Canada, vs. Kevin Pompey, Troy, N.Y., 10, light heavyweights.
At Irvine, Calif., Marcos Licona, Westminster, Calif., vs. Tiger Smalls, San Diego, 10, lightweights; Julio Gonzales, Huntington Beach, vs. Calvin Coombs, Malibu, 8, light heavyweights.
Friday
At the Las Vegas Hilton, (USSB), Jose Bonilla, Venezuela, vs. Hugo Soto, Argentina, 12, for Bonilla's WBA flyweight title; Hector Lopez, Los Angeles, vs. Cesar Valdez, Mexico, 10, junior lightweights; Freddie Pendleton, Miami, vs. Terronn Millett, St. Louis, 12, for vacant USBA junior welterweight title; Juan Coggi, Argentina, vs. Dezi Ford, Denver, 10, light heavyweights; James Page, Pittsburgh, Calif., vs. Eric Alexander, Kaneohe, Hawaii, 12, welterweights; Nate Jones, Chicago, vs. John Kiser, Denver, 6, heavyweights.
At Copenhagen, Reggie Johnson, Houston, vs. Ole Klemetsen, Denmark, 12, for Johnson's IBF light heavyweight title.
At Miami, (Fox), Phil Jackson, Miami, vs. Gerard Jones, New York, 10, heavyweights; Santiago Samiegeo, Panama, vs. Theo Elmore, Nashville, 12, junior middleweights.
Saturday
At the Las Vegas Hilton, (Showtime), Laurent Boudouani, France, vs. Guillermo Jones, Panama, 12, for Boudouani's WBA junior middleweight title; Nana Konadu, Ghana, vs. Julio Salinas, Puerto Rico, 10, bantamweights; Tim Austin, Cincinnati, vs. Adrian Kaspari, Indonesia, 12, for Austin's IBF bantamweight title; Kermin Guardia, Colombia, vs. Eric Jamili, Philippines, 12, for Jamili's WBO junior flyweight title; Byron Mitchell, Ozark, Alabama, vs. TBA, 10, super middleweights; Virgil McClendon, Columbus, Ohio, vs. Mark Fernandez, Denver, 10, junior welterweights.
At Los Angeles, (Univision), Carlos Palomino, Westminster, Calif., vs. Wilfredo Rivera, Puerto Rico, 10, welterweights; Diego Corrales, Sacramento, vs. Eduardo Contreras, Los Angeles, 12, junior lightweights.
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 2
At Punta Gorda, Fla., Freeman Barr, Naples, vs. Lee Fortune, Cave Springs, Ga., 12, middleweights.
June 5
At Hamburg, Germany, Juan Carlos Gomez, Cuba, vs. Guy Waters, Australia, 12, for Gomez's WBC cruiserweight title.
At Tijuana, Yory Boy Campas, Mexico, vs. Pedro Ortego, Mexico, 12, for Campas' IBF junior middleweight title.
June 6
At New York, (PPV), Evander Holyfield, Atlanta, vs. Henry Akinwande, England, 12, for Holyfield's WBA heavyweight title; William Joppy, Washington, vs. Roberto Duran, Panama, 12, for Joppy's WBA middleweight title; Johnny Tapia, Las Vegas, vs. Carlos Hernandez, Indio, Calif., 10, junior bantamweights; John Ruiz, Washington, vs. Jerry Ballard, Tampa, 12, for Ruiz's NABF heavyweight title; Lou DelValle, New York, vs. Dario Malteoni, Argentina, 12, for DelValle's WBA light heavyweight title; Ray Mercer, West Orange, N.J., vs. Marcelus Brown, Chicago, 10, heavyweights.
At Arizona Charlie's, Las Vegas, TBA.
June 7
At Miami, Dioblys Hurtado, Miami, vs. Leonard Mas, Argentina, 10, welterweights.
June 9
At Biloxi, Miss., Steve Forbes, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 6, lightweights.
June 10
At Moscow, Russia, Oleg Maskaev, Russia, vs. Courage Tshabalala, South Africa, 12, heavyweights.
June 11
At Kansas City, Cliff Couser, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights; Limmie Young, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 6, light heavyweights; David Sample, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, lightweights.
June 12
At Uncasville, Conn., Corrie Sanders, South Africa, vs. Bobby Czyz, Orange, N.J., 10, heavyweights; Michael Rush, Tampa, vs. Derrick Banks, Detroit, 10, heavyweights; Ike Ibeabuchi, Nigeria, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights.
June 13
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. Enrique Jupiter, Mexico City, 10, featherweights; Daniel Santos, Puerto Rico, vs. Juan Carlos Rodriguez, Mexico, 10, welterweights.
At Atlantic City, (ABC), Freddie Norwood, Las Vegas, vs. Genaro Rios, Nicaragua, 12, for Norwood's WBA featherweight title; Lamon Brewster, Los Angeles, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights; Eric Morel, Madison, Wisc., vs. Tsogtjargl Erndenetsogt, Mongolia, 8, flyweights; Zahir Raheem, Philadelphia, vs. Juan Mejia, Dominican Republic, 6, featherweights.
June 14
At Atlantic City, (ESPN2), Oba Carr, Detroit, vs. Sam Garr, Stone Mountain, Ga., 10, welterweights; Floyd Mayweather, Las Vegas, vs. Tony Pep, Canada, 10, junior lightweights; Zahir Raheem, Philadelphia, vs. TBA, 6, featherweights.
June 23
At Philadelphia, (USA), Fernando Vargas, New York, vs. Anthony Stephens, Philadelphia, 10, junior welterweights.
June 25
At Ledyard, Conn., (PPV), Buster Douglas, Ohio, vs. Lou Savarese, New York, 12, heavyweights; Julio Cesar Chavez, Mexico, vs. Ken Sigurani, Youngstown, 10, welterweights; Dana Rosenblatt, Malden, Mass., vs. Arthur Allen, Pittsburgh, 10, middleweights; Israel Cardona, Hartford, vs. Richie Kiley, New York, 10, lightweights.
June 26
At Bally's, Las Vegas, all-female card TBA.
June 27
At the Tropicana, Las Vegas, TBA.
At Philadelphia, (FX), Shane Mosley, Pomona, Calif., vs. Ivan Robinson, Philadelphia, 12, for Mosley's IBF lightweight title; David Reid, Philadelphia, vs. Simon Brown, Washington, 10, junior middleweights; Miguel Angel Gonzalez, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, junior welterweights.
July 8
At Dallas, James Coker, Dallas, vs. TBA, 12, junior middleweights.
July 11
At San Antonio, (PPV), James Leija, San Antonio, vs. Azumah Nelson, Ghana, 12, featherweights; Gabe Ruelas, Los Angeles, vs. Troy Dorsey, Dallas, 10, junior lightweights; Goyo Vargas, Mexico, vs. Tracy Patterson, New York, 12, junior lightweights.
July 12
At Cope Cod, R.I., (ESPN2), Vernon Forrest, Atlanta, vs. TBA, 12, welterweights; Joey DeGrandis, Boston, vs. TBA, 10, super middleweights.
July 14
At Los Angeles, Robert Garcia, Los Angeles, vs. TBA, 12, for Garcia's IBF junior lightweight title.
July 18
At Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, Prince Haseem Hamed, England, vs. Kennedy McKinney, Memphis, 12, featherweights.
At Arizona Charlie's, Las Vegas, TBA.
At Casino West, Yerington, TBA.
July 28
At Biloxi, Miss., James Crayton, Las Vegas, vs. Ahmed Santos, Phoenix, 12, for vacant NABF lightweight title.
August 23
At Tokyo, Joichiro Tatsuyoshi, Japan, vs. Paulie Ayala, Dallas, 12, for Tatsuyoshi's WBC bantamweight title.
September 12
At Tijuana, Mexico, Erik Morales, Mexico, vs. Junior Jones, New York, 12, for Morales' WBC super bantamweight title.
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