Fight schedule
Thursday, Sept. 16, 1999 | 9:44 a.m.
Thursday
At Biloxi, Miss., Obed Sullivan, Gulfport, Miss., vs. Ricardo Kennedy, Jamaica, 10, heavyweights; Alexander Zolkin, Russia, vs. James Gaines, Knoxville, 10, heavyweights.
At Miami, Hasim Rahman, New York, vs. Kirk Johnson, Canada, 10, heavyweights; Eliecer Castillo, Cuba, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights.
Friday
At the All-American SportPark, Las Vegas, (ESPN2), Antonio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., vs. Emanuel Burton, Chicago, 12, junior welterweights; Lamon Brewster, Los Angeles, vs. Quinn Navarre, Slidell, La., 10, heavyweights; Mahon Washington, Las Vegas, vs. Julio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., 6, lightweights.
At Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, Manny Pacquiao, Thailand, vs. Medgoen 3-K Battery, Thailand, 12, for Pacquiao's WBC flyweight title.
Saturday
At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, (PPV), Oscar De La Hoya, Big Bear, Calif., vs. Felix Trinidad, Puerto Rico, 12, for De La Hoya's WBC and Trinidad's IBF welterweight titles; Vassily Jirov, Kazakhstan, vs. Dale Brown, Canada, 12, for Jirov's IBF cruiserweight title; Tony Marshall, Albany, vs. Verdell Smith, Oklahoma City, 10, junior middleweights; Johnny Nelson, England, vs. Sione Vaati Asipeli, Tonga, 12, cruiserweights; Bones Adams, Mt. Carmel, Ill., vs. Justo Sanchez, Mexico, 6, lightweights; Butterbean Esch, Jasper, Ala., vs. Ken Craven, Ellisville, Miss., 4, heavyweights; Eric Morel, Madison, Wis., vs. Miguel Angel Granados, Mexico, 10, junior bantamweights.
September 24
At Methyr Tydfil, Wales, Robert Norton, England, vs. Sebastian Rothmann, Scotland, 12, cruiserweights.
At Washington D.C., (Showtime), William Joppy, Silver Spring, Md., vs. Julio Cesar Green, New York, 12, for Joppy's WBA middleweight title; Sharmba Mitchell, Tacoma Park, Md., vs. Elio Ortiz, Venezuela, 12, for Mitchell's WBA junior welterweight title; Keith Holmes, Washington, vs. TBA, 12, for Holmes' WBC middleweight title.
At Philadelphia, (ESPN2), Orlando Canizales, Laredo, Tx., vs. Frankie Toledo, Newark, N.J., 10, featherweights.
At The Orleans, Las Vegas, Edson Nascimento, Brazil, vs. Eduardo Perez, Mexico, 10, junior lightweights.
September 25
At Cologne, Germany, Wladimir Klitschko, Ukraine, vs. Axel Schulz, Germany, 12, heavyweights.
At Caesars Tahoe, Lake Tahoe, Bolillo Gonzalez, Mexico, vs. Cosme Rivera, Mexico, 12, junior welterweights; David Kamau, Los Angeles, vs. Marco Antonio Lizarraga, Mexico, 10, welterweights.
At Temecula, Calif., (HBO), Shane Mosley, Pomona, Calif., vs. Wilfredo Rivera, Puerto Rico, 10, junior welterweights.
At Miami, (Univision), Cesar Bazan, Mexico, vs. Jose Alfonso Rodriguez, 10, lightweights; Alejandro Gonzalez, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, lightweights.
September 27
At Inglewood, Calif., Henry Bruseles, Puerto Rico, vs. Pat Thorns, Detroit, 10, junior welterweights.
October 1
At Salem, N.H., (ESPN2), Reggie Green, Washington, vs. Mickey Ward, Lowell, Mass., 10, welterweights.
At Tunica, Miss., Arthur Williams, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, cruiserweights.
October 2
At the Las Vegas Hilton, (Showtime), Will Grigsby, Minneapolis, vs. Ricardo Lopez, Mexico, 12, for Grigsby's IBF junior flyweight title; Julio Cesar Chavez, Mexico, vs. Willie Wise, Westbury, N.Y., 10, junior welterweights.
At Tokyo, Kengo Nagashima, Japan, vs. Yangsoo Seung, Korea, 10, junior lightweights.
At Atlanta, Livingstone Bramble, Las Vegas, vs. Jerry Smith, 10, welterweights.
At the Cal-Neva, Reno, TBA.
October 9
At Oberhausen, Germany, Vitali Klitschko, Ukraine, vs. Ed Mahone, Los Angeles, 12, heavyweights; Artur Grigorian, Uzbekistan, vs. Michael Clark, England, 12, lightweights.
October 11
At Tokyo, Takeo Imaoka, Japan, vs. Tony Wehbee, Australia, 12, featherweights.
October 17
At Korea, Lakva Sim, Mongolia, vs. Jongkwon Baek, Korea, 12, for Sim's WBA junior lightweight title; Saman Sorjaturong, Thailand, vs. Yosam Choi, Korea, 12, for Sorjaturong's WBC light flyweight title.
October 22
At Detroit, (HBO), Naseem Hamed, England, vs. Cesar Soto, Mexico, 12, for Soto's WBC featherweight title; Wayne McCullough, Las Vegas, vs. Erik Morales, Mexico, 12, for Morales' WBC super bantamweight title.
October 23
At the MGM, Las Vegas, (Showtime), Mike Tyson, Las Vegas, vs. Orlin Norris, San Diego, 10, heavyweights.
At Fort Worth, Texas, (Univision), Paulie Ayala, Fort Worth, vs. Saohin Sorthanikul, Thailand, 12, for Ayala's WBA bantamweight title.
October 24
At London, England, Cornelius Carr, England, vs. Dingaan Thobela, South Africa, 12, middleweights.
October 29
At Denmark, Bruno Girard, France, vs. Mads Larsen, Denmark, 12, super middleweights.
November 6
At London, Roy Jones, Pensacola, Fla., vs. Gianfranco Rocchigiani, Germany, 12, for Jones' WBC, IBF and WBA light heavyweight titles.
November 13
At Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, (PPV), Lennox Lewis, England, vs. Evander Holyfield, Atlanta, for Lewis' WBC and Holyfield's WBA and IBF heavyweight titles.
November 20
At Atlantic City, (HBO), Michael Grant, New York, vs. Andrew Golota, Chicago, 12, for Grant's NABF heavyweight title.
December 11
At MGM, Las Vegas, Mike Tyson, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights.
At Los Angeles, TBA.
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