Boxing schedule

Thursday, Feb. 25, 1999 | 11:26 a.m.

At The Orleans, Las Vegas, (USSB), James Crayton, Las Vegas, vs. Ivan Ledon, Cuba, 10, lightweights; Steve Forbes, Las Vegas, vs. Gustavo Tapia, Costa Mesa, Calif., 10, lightweights; Heriberto Ruiz, Mexico, vs. Raul Jaurez, Mexico, 10, flyweights.

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

At Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Quirino Garcia, Mexico, vs. Meldrick Taylor, Philadelphia, 12, junior middleweights.

Saturday - Feb. 27

At Miami, (HBO), Cesar Bazan, Mexico, vs. Stevie Johnston, Denver, 12, for Bazan's WBC lightweight title; Reggie Johnson, Houston, vs. Will Taylor, Philadelphia, 12, for Johnson's IBF light heavyweight title.

At Tampa, (Telemundo), Adan Vargas, Mexico, vs. Luis Rolon, Puerto Rico, 12, for Vargas' NABF bantamweight title; Michael Carbajal, Phoenix, vs. Jose DeJesus, Mexico, 10, junior bantamweights.

At Baton Rouge, La., (USSB), Donovan Carey, Baton Rouge, vs. Jorge Reyes, Mexico, 12, super bantamweights.

At Berlin, Sven Ottke, Germany, vs. Giovanni Nardiello, Italy, 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 4

At Mt. Pleasant, Mich., (USSB), Derrick Jefferson, Detroit, vs. Bert Cooper, Sharon Hill, Penn., 10, heavyweights; Keith McKnight, Nashville, vs. Sam Hampton, Virginia Beach, Va., 10, heavyweights.

March 5

At Ciudad Chihuahua, Mexico, Livingstone Bramble, Las Vegas, vs. Jose Luis Juarez, Mexico, 10, junior welterweights.

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), Antonio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., vs. TBA, 10, junior welterweights; Daniel Santos, Puerto Rico, vs. Ray Lovato, Las Vegas, 10, welterweights.

At St. Paul, Minn., (USSB), Will Grigsby, St. Paul, vs. Anis Roga, Indonesia, 12, for Grigsby's IBF junior flyweight title; Henry Akinwande, Ft. Lauderdale, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights; Larry Donald, Cincinnati, vs. Art Pendergrass, For Lauderdale, 10, heavyweights.

March 7

At Phoenix, (FSN), James Toney, Ann Arbor, vs. Onebo Maxime, Atlanta, 10, cruiserweights; Ron Weaver, New Orleans, vs. Manny Sobral, Las Vegas, 10, junior middleweights; Wolfgramm Pia, Tonga, vs. Gerard Jones, New York, 10, heavyweights.

March 8

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

At Sacramento, Willie Jorrin, Sacramento, vs. Edgar Garcia, Mexico, 10, junior lightweights.

March 12

At New York, (ESPN2), Hasim Rahman, Baltimore, vs. Michael Rush, Tampa, 10, heavyweights.

At Merida, Mexico, Guty Espadas, Mexico, vs. Carlos Guemez, Mexico, 10, featherweights.

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.

At Luebeck, Germany, Artur Grigorian, Germany, vs. TBA, 12, lightweights.

March 19

At Philadelphia, (ESPN2), Antoine Byrd, Los Angeles, vs. Bryant Brannon, Trenton, 12, for vacant USBA super middleweight title; Billy Irwin, Niagra Falls, vs. Luis Leija, San Antonio, 10, lightweights.

At The Orleans, Las Vegas, Hugo Pineda, Colombia, vs. TBA, 10, welterweights.

March 20

At The New Frontier, Las Vegas, John John Molina, Puerto Rico, vs. Luis Lizarraga, Los Angeles, 10, junior lightweights.

At TBA, (HBO), Ike Ibeabuchi, Nigeria, vs. Chris Byrd, Flint, 10, heavyweights; Kirk Johnson, Canada, vs. Al Cole, Spring Valley, N.Y., 10, heavyweights.

March 27

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