Fight schedule — Feb. 4, 1999

Thursday, Feb. 4, 1999 | 10:43 a.m.

Thursday

At Irvine, Calif., Raul Franco, Bellflower, Calif., was Jose Chilin Cruz, Mexico, 10, welterweights.

At Worley, Idaho, (USSB), Oleg Maskaev, Kazakhstan, vs. Jeff Wooden, Fort Bragg, N.C., 10, heavyweights; Tryone Booze, Hartford, vs. Josh Dempsey, Torrance, Calif., 10, heavyweights.

Friday

At Pikesville, Md., (ESPN2), Andrew Council, Lanham, Md., vs. Michael Ward, Fort Washington, Md., 10, middleweights; Reggie Green, Tuxedo, Md., vs. Jesus Rodriguez, Mexico, 12, for Green's NABF junior welterweight title.

At Montreal, Shane Sutcliffe, Canada, vs. Trevor Berbick, Dallas, 12, heavyweights; Dale Brown, Canada, vs. James Harbor, New York, 12, for Brown's NABF cruiserweight title.

At Miami, (USSB), Antonio Cermeno, Venezuela, vs. Eddy Saenz, Nicaragua, 12, for Cermeno's WBA featherweight title; Antonio Tarver, Orlando, vs. Demetrius Davis, Washington, 10, light heavyweights; Ken Murphy, Chicago, vs. Alex Gonzales, Puerto Rico, 12, for vacant USBA cruiserweight title.

Saturday

At Washington D.C., (Showtime), Bernard Hopkins, Philadelphia, vs. Robert Allen, New Orleans, 12, for Hopkins' IBF middleweight title; Sharmba Mitchell, Washington, vs. Pedro Saiz, New York, 12, for Mitchell's WBA junior welterweight title.

At the New Frontier, Las Vegas, (Fox), Phil Jackson, Miami, vs. Monte Barrett, Brooklyn, 10, heavyweights; Derrick Harmon, Las Vegas, vs. Gilberto Brown, Virgin Islands, 10, light heavyweights; Augie Sanchez, Las Vegas, vs. Natalio Ponce, Mexico, 6, featherweights.

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

At Hammanskrall, South Africa, Vuyani Bungu, South Africa, vs. Victor Llerena, South Africa, 12, for Bungu's IBF super bantamweight title.

Monday

At Inglewood, Calif., Javier Jauregui, Mexico, vs. Jose Badillo, Puerto Rico, 12, junior lightweights.

February 12

At The Orleans, Las Vegas, (ESPN2), Antonio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., vs. Mauro Lucero, Mexico, 12, junior welterweights; Bronco McKart, Monroe, Mich., vs. Jesus Mayorga, Mexico, 10, junior middleweights; Blaise Soares, Las Vegas, vs. Carlos Bojorquez, Mexico, 6, junior middleweights.

February 13

At Thomas & Mack Center, (PPV), 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; Erik Morales, Mexico, vs. Angel Chacon, Puerto Rico, 12, for Morales' WBC super bantamweight title; Butterbean Esch, Jasper, Ala., vs. Kevin Tallon, Lawrenceburg, Ind., 4, heavyweights; Tony Marshall, Albany, N.Y., vs. Javier Altamirano, Mexico, 10, junior middleweights.

At Newcastle, England, Herbie Hide, England, vs. Orlin Norris, San Diego, 12, heavyweights; Joe Calzaghe, England, vs. Robin Reid, England, 12, super middleweights; Richie Woodhall, England, vs. Vincenzo Nardiello, Italy, 12, for Woodhall's WBC super middleweight title; Harry Simon, England, vs. Kevin Lueshing, England, 12, junior middleweights.

At Stuttgart, Germany, Artur Grigorian, Germany, vs. TBA, 12, lightweights; Vladimir Klitschko, Germany, vs. TBA, 12, heavyweights.

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

At Oklahoma City, David Sample, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, lightweights.

February 17

At Grand Rapids, Mich., (TNT), Floyd Mayweather, Las Vegas, vs. Carlos Rios, Argentina, 12, for Mayweather's WBC junior lightweight title; Junior Jones, New York, vs. Tom Johnson, Detroit, 10, junior lightweights; Eric Morel, Madison, Wis., vs. Eduardo Manzano, Mexico, 8, flyweights.

February 18

At Bossier City, La., (USSB), Jorge Luis Gonzalez, Cuba, vs. James Stanton, Philadelphia, 10, heavyweights; Wayne Llewellyn, England, vs. Derek Williams, England, 10, heavyweights.

February 19

At Boise, Kenny Keense, Emmett, Idaho, vs. Dominick Carter, Metairie, La., 12, cruiserweights.

At Chihuahua, Mexico, Jose Luis Juarez, Mexico, vs. Livingtone Bramble, Bahamas, 12, lightweights.

At Port Chester, N.Y., (ESPN2), David Telesco, Port Chester, vs. Eric Harding, Philadelphia, 10, light heavyweights; Arthur Allen, Pittsburgh, vs. Joey Hughes, Scranton, 10, super middleweights.

At Mar delPlata, Argentina, Roberto Duran, Panama, vs. Omar Gonzalez, Argentina, 10, super middleweights.

February 20

At New York, (HBO), Pernell Whitaker, Norfolk, Va., vs. Felix Trinidad, Puerto Rico, 12, for Trinidad's IBF welterweight title; Vince Phillips, Las Vegas, vs. Teron Millett, St. Louis, 12, for Phillips' IBF junior welterweight title; Vernon Forrest, Atlanta, vs. TBA, 12, for Forrest's NABF welterweight title.

At Fort Worth, (Univision), Paulie Ayala, Fort Worth, vs. Carlos Contreras, Mexico, 10, junior bantamweights; Justin Juuko, Las Vegas, vs. Antonio Hernandez, Mexico, 12, junior lightweights.

At Hamburg, Germany, Juan Carlos Gomez, Germany, vs. Marcelo Dominguez, Argentina, 12, for Gomez's WBC cruiserweight title.

At Samui, Thailand, Pichinoi Siriwat, Thailand, vs. Joma Gamboa, Philippines, 12, for Siriwat's WBA junior flyweight title.

February 23

At Managua, Nicaragua, Rosendro Alvarez, Nicaragua, vs. TBA, 10, junior flyweights.

February 26

At The Orleans, Las Vegas, TBA.

At Ledyard, Conn., (ESPN2), Israel Cardona, Hartford, vs. Joel Perez, Houston, 12, for Cardona's USBA lightweight title.

February 27

At Miami, (HBO), Cesar Bazan, Mexico, vs. Stevie Johnston, Denver, 12, for Bazan's WBC lightweight title.

At Berlin, Sven Ottke, Germany, vs. TBA, 12, for Ottke's IBF junior middleweight title; Alexei Ilyin, Russia, vs. Christophe Girard, France, 12, cruiserweights.

At London, Colin Dunne, England, vs. Phillip Holiday, South Africa, 12, lightweights.

March 6

At Atlantic City, (HBO), Laurent Boudouani, France, vs. David Reid, Philadelphia, 12, for Boudouani's WBA junior middleweight title; Lance Whitaker, Los Angeles, vs. Lou Savarese, Houston, 10, heavyweights.

At Indio, Calif., (Univision), Nestor Garza, Mexico, vs. Carlos Baretto, Venezuela, 12, for Garza's WBA super bantamweight title; Daniel Santos, Puerto Rico, vs. Ray Lovato, Las Vegas, 10, welterweights.

March 8

At Anaheim, Edgar Ruiz, Mexico, vs. Willie Wise, Westbury, N.Y., 12, welterweights.

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; Fernando Vargas vs. Howard Clarke, England, 12, for Vargas' IBF junior middleweight title.

March 19

At The Orleans, Las Vegas, TBA.

March 27

At TBA, (Showtime), Sharmba Mitchell, Washington, vs. TBA, 12, for Mitchell's WBA junior welterweight title.

April 2

At Daltan, Ga., (ESPN2), Diego Corrales, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 12, junior lightweights; Bronco McKart, Monroe, Mich., vs. TBA, 10, junior middleweights; Butterbean Esch, Jasper, Ala., vs. TBA, 4, heavyweights.

April 17

At TBA, (Showtime), Ricardo Lopez, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, junior flyweights.

April 17

At TBA, (HBO), Roy Jones, Pensacola, Fla., vs. Steve Collins, Ireland, 12, for Jones' WBA and WBC light heavyweight titles.

April 24

At the MGM, Las Vegas, (PPV), Mike Tyson, Scottsdale, Az., vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights.

May 22

At TBA, (HBO), Tim Austin, Cincinnati, vs. TBA, 12, for Austin's IBF bantamweight title.

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