Fight schedule

Thursday, Aug. 10, 2000 | 8:25 a.m.

Aug. 10, 2000

Tonight

At Biloxi, Miss., Arthur Williams, Las Vegas, vs. Leeonzer Barber, Detroit, 10, cruiserweights.

Friday

At Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas, (Showtime), Tim Austin, Cincinnati, vs. Arthur Johnson, Minneapolis, 12, for Austin's IBF bantamweight title.

At Atlantic City, N.J., (ESPN2), Vivian Harris, New York, vs. Ivan Robinson, Philadelphia, 10, lightweights; Nick Acevedo, New York, vs. Johnny Molnar, Middletown, N.J., 10, welterweights.

Saturday

At Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas, (Showtime), Evander Holyfield, Atlanta, vs. John Ruiz, Boston, 12, for vacant WBA heavyweight title.

At London, England, Joe Calzaghe, England, vs. Omar Sheika, New York, 12, super middleweights; Harry Simon, England, vs. Rodney Jones, England, 12, junior middleweights.

At Yakima, Wash., Roberto Duran, Panama, vs. P.J. Goossen, Los Angeles, 10, junior middleweights.

Sunday

At the Peppermill, Reno, Jorge Lacierva, Mexico, vs. David Vasquez, Blythe, Calif., 12, bantamweights.

August 18

At Concho, Ok., Ben Tackie, Ghana, vs. Freddie Pendleton, Miami, 10, lightweights; David Santos, Lowell, Mass., vs. Steve Forbes, Las Vegas, 12, for vacant USBA junior lightweight title.

At the Orleans, Las Vegas, TBA.

August 19

At Ledyard, Conn., (HBO), Naseem Hamed, England, vs. Augie Sanchez, Las Vegas, 12, featherweights; Mickey Ward, Lowell, Mass., vs. Antonio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., 12, junior welterweights.

At Bangkok, Thailand, Pitchit Siriwat, Thailand, vs. Rosendo Alvarez, Mexico, 12, for Siriwat's WBA light flyweight title.

August 20

At Tucson, Az., Rafael Marquez, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, super bantamweights.

At Tokyo, Japan, Malcolm Tunaco, Philippines, vs. Celes Kobayashi, Japan, 12, for Tunaco's WBC flyweight title.

At Bell Gardens, Calif., Martin Castillo, Mexico, vs. Alberto Ontiveros, Mexico, 10, junior bantamweights.

At East St. Louis, Mo., Eliecer Castillo, Miami, vs. Paea Wolfgramm, Tongo, 10, heavyweights; Mauricio Pastrana, Colombia, vs. Heriberto Ruiz, Mexico, 12, junior bantamweights.

August 21

At Cordoba, Argentina, Isidro Garcia, Mexico, vs. Jose Rafael Sosa, Argentina, 12, flyweights.

August 24

At Worley, Idaho, King Ipitan, Los Angeles, vs. Zuri Lawrence, Wappingers Falls, N.Y., 10, heavyweights; David Defiagbon, Las Vegas, vs. Augustin Corpus, Mexico, 6, heavyweights.

August 25

At Fort Worth, Texas, (ESPN2), Paulie Ayala, Fort Worth, vs. TBA, 12, for Ayala's WBA bantamweigh title.

At Bay St. Louis, Miss., J.C. Candelo vs. Michael Lerma, 10, junior middleweights.

August 26

At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, (HBO), Fernando Vargas, Oxnard, Calif., vs. Ross Thompson, Buffalo, 12, for Vargas' IBF junior middleweight title; Vernon Forrest, Atlanta, vs. Raul Frank, Guyana, 12, for vacant IBF welterweight title.

August 27

At the Plaza, Las Vegas, (Univision), Juan Manuel Marquez, Mexico, vs. Anthony Martinez, Nicaragua, 10, featherweights.

At Osaka, Japan, In-joo Cho, South Korea, vs. Masamori Tokuyama, Japan, 12,for Cho's WBC junior bantamweight title.

August 31

At Tunica, Miss., Vince Phillips, Las Vegas, vs. Pedro Saiz, New York, 10, junior welterweights; Daniel Attah, Washington, vs. Juan Carlos Suarez, Miami, 8, junior lightweights.

September 1

At Sun City, South Africa, Glenn Catley, England, vs. Dingaan Thobela, South Africa, 12, for Catley's WBC super middleweight title.

At TBA, Johnny Tapia, Albuquerque, vs. TBA, 10, bantamweights.

September 2

At Magdeburg, Germany, Sven Ottke, Germany, vs. Charles Brewer, Philadelphia, 12, for Ottke's IBF super middleweight title.

At El Paso, Texas, (HBO), Guty Espadas, Mexico, vs. Erik Morales, Mexico, 12, for Espadas' WBC featherweight title; Diego Corrales, Sacramento, vs. Angel Manfredy, Chicago, 12, for Corrales' IBF junior lightweight title.

September 3

At Yerington, Nevada, Martin Castillo, Mexico, vs. Alberto Ontiveros, Mexico, 10, junior bantamweights.

September 8

At Pontiac, Mich., (Showtime), Mike Tyson, Phoenix, vs. David Izon, Pensacola, Fla., 10, heavyweights.

At the Hard Rock, Las Vegas, TBA.

At Montreal, Davey Hilton, Canada, vs. Eric Lucas, Canada, 12, middleweights.

September 9

At New Orleans, La., (PPV), Roy Jones, Pensacola, Fla., vs. Eric Harding, Wheeling, W.Va., 12, for Jones' WBC, WBA and IBF light heavyweight titles; Freddie Norwood, Las Vegas, vs. Derrick Gainer, Pensacola, Fla., 12, for Norwood's WBA featherweight title; Marco Antonio Barrera, Mexico, vs. Jose Luis Valbuena, Mexico, 10, super bantamweights.

At Manchester, England, Michael Brodie, England, vs. Willie Jorrin, Sacramento, 12, super bantamweights.

At Chester, W.Va., (HBO), Cliff Etienne, Baton Rouge, vs. Orlin Norris, San Diego, 10, heavyweights; Benedict Ledwaba, South Africa, vs. Eduardo Alvarez, Argentina, 12, for Ledwaba's IBF super bantamweight title.

At TBA, Germany, Dariusz Michaelczewski, Germany, vs. David Telesco, New York, 12, light heavyweights.

At Phoenix, Fabrice Tiozzo, France, vs. Virgil Hill, Bismarck, N.D., 12, for Tiozzo's WBA cruiserweight title.

September 15

At Denver, (ESPN), Jose Luis Castillo, Mexico, vs. Stevie Johnston, Denver, 12, for Castillo's WBC lightweight title.

At TBA, France, Bruno Girard, France, vs. Manuel Siaca, Puerto Rico, 12, for Girard's WBA super middleweight title; Julien Lorcy, France, vs. TBA, 12, lightweights.

September 17

At Bell Gardens, Calif., Antonio Margarito, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, welterweights.

September 24

At West Wendover, Nev., (Univision), Jorge Paez, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, lightweights.

At Wroclaw, Poland, Andrew Golota, Poland, vs. Przemyslav Saleta, Poland, 10, heavyweights.

October 7

At Berlin, Germany, Armand Krajnc, Sweden, vs. Bert Schenk, Germany, 12, middleweights.

At TBA, (HBO), Michael Grant, New York, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights.