Fight schedule

Thursday, Aug. 17, 2000 | 9:28 a.m.

Aug. 17, 2000

Friday

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, Raul Perez, Mexico, vs. Hector Velazquez, Mexico, 10, junior lightweights; Oscar Andrade, Mexico, vs. Triny Mendoza, Mexico, 10, junior bantamweights

Saturday

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.

Sunday

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., (FSN), Eliecer Castillo, Miami, vs. Paea Wolfgramm, Tongo, 10, heavyweights; Mauricio Pastrana, Colombia, vs. Heriberto Ruiz, Mexico, 12, junior bantamweights.

Monday

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 Bay St. Louis, Miss., (ESPN2), J.C. Candelo, Atlanta, vs. Michael Lerma, Waco, 10, junior middleweights; Julian Wheeler, Latwell, La., vs. Jermaine Fields, Landover, Md., 10, lightweights.

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; Rene Monse, Germany, vs. Willie Fischer, Germany, 12, heavyweights.

At El Paso, Texas, (HBO), Erik Morales, Mexico, vs. Kevin Kelley, Las Vegas, 12, featherweights; Diego Corrales, Sacramento, vs. Angel Manfredy, Chicago, 12, for Corrales' IBF junior lightweight title.

At Manila, Philippines, Manny Pacquiao, Philippines, vs. Cesar Soto, Mexico, 10, super bantamweights.

September 3

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

September 8

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, (Showtime), 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 23

At Rama, Ontario, Canada, Acelino Freitas, Brazil, vs. TBA, 12, junior lightweights; Harry Simon, England, vs. Rodney Jones, Stockton, Calif., 12, junior middleweights.

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 the MGM, Las Vegas, Paulie Ayala, Fort Worth, vs. Johnny Tapia, Albuquerque, 12, super bantamweights.

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

At TBA, (HBO), Kirk Johnson, Canada, vs. Oleg Maskaev, Hungary, 10, heavyweights.

November 11

At TBA, (PPV), Lennox Lewis, England, vs. David Tua, New Zealand, 12, for Lewis' WBC and IBF heavyweight titles.