Fight schedule — March 11, 1999
Thursday, March 11, 1999 | 9:53 a.m.
Friday
At New York, (ESPN2), Hasim Rahman, Baltimore, vs. Michael Rush, Tampa, 10, heavyweights; Danell Nicholson, Chicago, vs. Frankie Swindell, Nashville, 10, heavyweights.
At Merida, Mexico, Guty Espadas, Mexico, vs. Carlos Guemez, Mexico, 10, featherweights.
At Miami, Nicolas Cervera, Colombia, vs. Leonardo Valdez, Mexico, 8, welterweights.
Saturday
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; James Page, Pittsburgh, Calif., vs. Juan Coggi, Argentina, 12, for Page's WBA welterweight title.
At Luebeck, Germany, Artur Grigorian, Usbekistan, vs. Oscar Garcia-Cano, Spain, 12, lightweights; Juan Carlos Gomez, Germany, vs. Marcelo Dominguez, Argentenia, 12, for Gomez's WBC cruiserweight title.
Sunday
At Pueblo, Colo., (FSN), Simon Brown, Washington, vs. Mario Iribarren, Cuba, 10, middleweights; Joel Casamayor, Cuba, vs Russell Stoner Jones, Ghana, 10, junior lightweights.
March 19
At Philadelphia, (ESPN2), Demetrius Jenkins, Detroit, vs. Bryant Brannon, Trenton, 12, for vacant USBA super middleweight title; Billy Irwin, Niagra Falls, vs. Gerald Gray, New York, 10, lightweights.
At The Orleans, Las Vegas, James Crayton, Las Vegas, vs. Juan Prado, Mexico, 12, lightweights.
At Verona, N.Y., Hector Camacho, Orlando, vs. Scotty Smith, Little Rock, 10, junior middleweights; Carl Daniels, St. Louis, vs. Angel Beltre, Dominican Republic, 10, middleweights.
At Houston, Raul Marquez, Houston vs. TBA, 10, junior middleweights.
March 20
At The New Frontier, Las Vegas, John John Molina, Puerto Rico, vs. Luis Lizarraga, Los Angeles, 10, junior lightweights.
At Tacoma, (HBO), Ike Ibeabuchi, Nigeria, vs. Chris Byrd, Flint, 10, heavyweights; Kirk Johnson, Canada, vs. Al Cole, Spring Valley, N.Y., 10, heavyweights.
At London, Jan Bergman, South Africa, vs. Bolillo Gonzalez, Mexico, 12, junior welterweights.
March 22
At Inglewood, Calif., Edgar Ruiz, Mexico, vs. Willie Wise, Westbury, N.Y., 12, welterweights; Isidro Garcia, Los Angeles, vs. Nelson Dieppa, Puerto Rico, 12, flyweights.
March 27
At Miami, (Showtime), Tim Austin, Cincinnati, vs. Gergio Aguila, Mexico, 12, for Austin's IBF bantamweight championship; Jorge Eliecer Julio, Colombia, vs. Julio Gamboa, Nicaragua, 12, bantamweights.
At the Tropicana, Las Vegas, Ed Mahone, Los Angeles, vs. Steve Pennell, Roanoke, Va., 12, heavyweights; Isreal Vazquez, Hacienda Heights, Calif., vs. Oscar Maldonado, Mexico, 12, super bantamweights; Acelino Freitas, Brazil, vs. Ricardo Rivera, Puerto Rico, 10, junior lightweights.
March 30
At Pittsburgh, Paul Spadafora, Pittsburgh, vs. Roberto Nunez, Dominican Republic, 10, lightweights.
April 2
At Daltan, Ga., (ESPN2), Diego Corrales, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 12, junior lightweights; Bronco McKart, Monroe, Mich., vs. Pat Perez, Easton, Pa., 10, junior middleweights; Butterbean Esch, Jasper, Ala., vs. Kevin Tallon, Lawrenceberg, Ind., 4, heavyweights.
April 3
At the New Frontier, Las Vegas, (FSN), Monte Barrett, New York, vs. Phil Jackson, Cleveland, 10, heavyweights.
At Bremen, Germany, Dariusz Michalczewski, Germany, vs. Muslim Biarslanov, 12, light heavyweights.
April 10
At Manchester, England, 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; Manuel Medina, Puerto Rico, vs. Victor Polo, Colombia, 12, for Medina's IBF featherweight title.
At Berck, France, Bruno Girard, France, vs. Andrei Shkalikov, 12, middleweights; Jean Baptiste Mendy, France, vs. Julien Lorcy, France, 12, for Mendy's WBA lightweight title.
April 14
At Toronto, Fitzroy Vanderpool, Canada, vs. Stephan Johnson, Brooklyn, 12, junior middleweights.
April 16
At TBA, (ESPN2), Vernon Forrest, Atlanta, vs. Steve Martinez, Houston, 12, for Forrest's NABF welterweight title; Zab Judah, New York, vs. Jaime Ocegueda, Las Vegas, 12, for Judah's USBA junior welterweight title.
April 17
At TBA, (HBO), Ivan Robinson, Philadelphia, vs. Angel Manfredy, Gary, Ind., 10, lightweights.
At TBA, (HBO), Roy Jones, Pensacola, Fla., vs. Steve Collins, Ireland, 12, for Jones' WBA and WBC light heavyweight titles.
April 24
At TBA, Kostya Tszyu, Australia, vs. Miguel Angel Gonzalez, Mexico, 12, for Tszyu's WBC junior welterweight title; Cesar Soto, Mexico, vs. Luisito Espinosa, Philippines, 12, for Espinosa's WBC featherweight title; Julio Cesar Chavez, Mexico, vs. James Leija, San Antonio, 10, welterweights.
May 1
At TBA, (HBO), Freddie Norwood, Las Vegas, vs. Derrick Gainer, New York, 10, featherweights.
May 7
At TBA, Las Vegas, (ESPN2), TBA.
May 8
At TBA, Las Vegas, (PPV), Eric 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. Jose Luis Noyola, Mexico, 12, featherweights; Kevin Kelley, Las Vegas, vs. Wilfredo Vasquez, Puerto Rico, 10, featherweights.
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.
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