Fight schedule — March 18, 1999

Thursday, March 18, 1999 | 12:03 p.m.

Friday

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. Javier Valadez, 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 Copenhagen, Denmark, Mads Larsen, Denmark, vs. Sugarboy Malinga, South Africa, 12, super middleweights.

Saturday

At the New Frontier, Las Vegas, John John Molina, Puerto Rico, vs. Ruben Nevarez, Mexico, 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.

At Derby, England, Carl Thompson, England, vs. Johnny Nelson, Denmark, 12, cruiserweights.

March 30

At Pittsburgh, Paul Spadafora, Pittsburgh, vs. Roberto Nunez, Dominican Republic, 10, lightweights.

April 1

At Worley, Idaho, (USSB), Gerald Nobles, Chicago, vs. Art Pendergrass, Orlando, 10, heavyweights.

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.

At London, England, Herbie Hide, England, vs. Scott Welch, England, 12, heavyweights.

April 8

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

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 15

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

At Miami, (USSB), TBA.

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 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 TBA, (Univision), Eric Morel, Madison, Wis., vs. TBA, 10, junior bantamweights.

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 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.

May 9

At the New Frontier, Las Vegas, TBA.

Mat 15

At TBA, (Univision), Luisito Espinosa, Philippines, vs. Cesar Soto, Mexico, 12, for Espinosa's WBC featherweight 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; Antonio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., vs. TBA, 10, lightweights.