Fight schedule — April 8, 1999

Thursday, April 8, 1999 | 10:48 a.m.

Thursday

At Irvine, Calif., Naoya Hirahara, Tokyo, vs. Isreal Correa, Oxnard, Calif., 10, featherweights.

Friday

At Ledyard, Conn., (ESPN2), Vinny Pazienza, Cranston, R.I., vs. Joseph Kiwanuka, Las Vegas, 10, super middleweights.

At Dickson City, Pa., Chris Mills, Scranton, vs. Luis Cuso Rodriguez, Puerto Rico, 8, light heavyweights.

At Temecula, Calif., (USSB), Oscar Larios, Mexico, vs. Miguel Escamilla, Mexico, 12, super bantamweights; Edison Nascimento, Brazil, vs. Luis Montes, Mexico, 10, junior lightweights.

Saturday

At Manchester, England, (HBO), Naseem Hamed, England, vs. Paul Ingle, England, 12, featherweights; Juan Manuel Marquez, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, featherweights; Junior Jones, New York, vs. Richard Evatt, England, 12, junior lightweights.

At Bercy, France, Bruno Girard, France, vs. Andrei Shkalikov, Russia, 12, middleweights; Jean Baptiste Mendy, France, vs. Julien Lorcy, France, 12, for Mendy's WBA lightweight title; Bruno Wartelle, France, vs. Djamel Lifa, France, 12, featherweights.

Monday

At Inglewood, Calif., Mauricio Martinez, Panama, vs. Ulises Morquecho, Mexico, 12, bantamweights; Agapito Sanchez, Brooklyn, vs. Jesse Magana, Fresno, 10, featherweights.

April 14

At Toronto, Fitzroy Vanderpool, Canada, vs. Stephan Johnson, Brooklyn, 12, junior middleweights.

April 15

At Miami, (USSB), Hasim Rahman, Baltimore, vs. Arthur Weathers, Louisville, 10, heavyweights; Willie Williams, East Points, Ga., vs. Derrick Banks, Detroit, 10, heavyweights.

At Bangkok, Thailand, Mauro Blanc, Mexico, vs. Veraphol Sahaprom, Thailand, 12, for Sahaprom's WBC bantamweight title.

April 16

At Tunica, Miss., (ESPN2), Vernon Forrest, Atlanta, vs. Steve Martinez, Houston, 12, for Forrest's NABF welterweight title; Zab Judah, New York, vs. Mark Lewis, Sacramento, 12, for Judah's USBA junior welterweight title.

At The Orleans, Las Vegas, Manuel Medina, Mexico, vs. Victor Polo, Colombia, 12, for Medina's IBF featherweight title; Pedro Ortega, Mexico, vs. Larry Dixon, San Diego, 12, junior middleweights.

At Copenhagen, Denmark, Khalid Rahilou, France, vs. Thomas Damgaard, Denmark, 12, junior welterweights; Brian Nielsen, Denmark, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights.

April 17

At Indio, Calif., (HBO), Shane Mosley, Pomona, Calif., vs. John Brown, Atlantic City, 12, for Mosley's IBF lightweight title; Ivan Robinson, Philadelphia, vs. Angel Manfredy, Gary, Ind., 10, lightweights.

At Mexico City, Jesus Chavez, Mexico, vs. Julio Alvarez, Mexico, 10, junior lightweights.

April 18

At Miami, (FSN), John McClain, Las Vegas, vs. Ramon Garbey, Miami, 10, cruiserweights; Joel Casamayor, Miami, vs. Adan Casillas, Mexico, 10, featherweights; Jorge Luis Gonzalez, Las Vegas, vs. Eli Dixon, Cleveland, 10, heavyweights.

April 19

At Helsinki, Finland, Iran Barkley, Chicaco, vs. Tony Halme, Finland, 10, heavyweights.

April 24

At Washington D.C., (Showtime), Sharmba Mitchell, Takoma Park, Md., vs. Reggie Green, Tuxedo, Md., 12, for Mitchell's WBA junior welterweight title; Hassine Cherifi, France, vs. Keith Holmes, Washington, for Cherifi's WBC middleweight title.

At Albuquerque, (Univision), Johnny Tapia, Albuquerque, vs. Sergio Liendo, Argentina, 10, bantamweights; Eric Morel, Madison, Wis., vs. TBA, 10, junior bantamweights; David Sample, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 8, lightweights.

At Quezon City, Philippines, Manny Pacquiao, Philippines, vs. Gabriel Mira, Mexico, 12, for Pacquiao's WBC flyweight title.

At Kakogawa, Japan, Toshiaki Nishoika, Japan, vs. Shigeru Nakazato, Japan, 10, bantamweights.

At Salt Lake City, TBA.

April 26

At Anaheim, Jesus Salud, San Diego, vs. Nestor Lopez, Mexico, 10, super bantamweights.

April 30

At Marksville, La., Aristead Clayton, Baker, La., vs. Jose De Jesus, Mexico, 10, super bantamweights; Julian Wheeler, Lawtell, La., vs. David Montes, Mexico, 10, junior welterweights.

May 1

At Pensacola, Fla., (HBO), Freddie Norwood, Las Vegas, vs. Derrick Gainer, New York, 10, featherweights.

At London, Harry Simon, England, vs. Kevin Lueshing, England, 12, junior middleweights.

May 7

At All-American Sports Park, Las Vegas, (ESPN2), Antonio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., vs. Marlon Thomas, Detroit, 12, junior welterweights.

May 8

At the Las Vegas Hilton, Las Vegas, (PPV), Erik Morales, Mexico, vs. Wayne McCullough, Las Vegas, 12, for Morales' WBC super bantamweight title; Nestor Garza, Mexico, vs. Carlos Barreto, Venezuela, 12, for Garza's WBA super bantamweight championship; Jorge Paez, Mexico, vs. Tom Johnson, Detroit, 12, featherweights; Kevin Kelley, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, featherweights.

At the Cal-Neva, Reno, TBA.

May 9

At Minot, N.D., (FSN), Michael Nunn, Davenport, Iowa, vs. William Guthrie, St. Louis, 10, light heavyweights; Virgil Hill, Bismarck, N.D., vs. TBA, 10, cruiserweights.

At Madrid, Spain, Javier Castillejo, Spain, vs. Humberto Aranda, Costa Rica, 12, for Castillejo's WBC junior middleweight title.

At the New Frontier, Las Vegas, TBA.

May 15

At El Paso, (Univision), Luisito Espinosa, Philippines, vs. Cesar Soto, Mexico, 12, for Espinosa's WBC featherweight title.

At TBA, Kostya Tszyu, Australia, vs. Miguel Angel Gonzalez, Mexico, 12, for Tszyus's WBC junior welterweight title.

May 21

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

May 22

At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, (HBO), Oscar De La Hoya, Big Bear, Calif., vs. Oba Carr, Detroit, 12, for De La Hoya's WBC welterweight title; Floyd Mayweather, Las Vegas, vs. Goyo Vargas, Mexico, 12, for Mayweather's WBC junior lightweight title.

May 23

At Kansas City, Ray Berry, Sevierville, Tenn., vs. Glenn Robinson, Bronx, 12, light heavyweights; Randle Carver, Kansas City, vs. Mario Iribarren, Miami, 10, super middleweights.

At Seoul, Korea, Cho In-Joo, Korea, vs. Rafael Sosa, Argentina, 12, for In-Joo's WBC junior bantamweight title.

May 29

At Puerto Rico, Felix Trinidad, Puerto Rico, vs. Vincent Pettway, Baltimore, 12, for Trinidad's IBF welterweight title.

June 5

At the MGM, Las Vegas, Roy Jones, Pensacola, Fla., vs. Reggie Johnson, Houston, 12, for Jones' WBA and Johnson's IBF light heavyweight titles.

At Munich, Germany, Torsten May, Germany, vs. Adolpho Washington, Chicago, 10, light heavyweights.

June 12

At the Cal-Neva, Reno, TBA.

June 19

At TBA, (HBO), Michael Grant, New York, vs. TBA, 12, for Grant's NABF heavyweight title.