Fight schedule

Thursday, Aug. 24, 2000 | 9:46 a.m.

Aug. 24, 2000

Tonight

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.

Friday

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.

Saturday

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.

Sunday

At the Plaza, Las Vegas, (Univision), Juan Manuel Marquez, Mexico, vs. Daniel Jimenez, Mexico, 10, featherweights.

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

Aug. 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.

Sept. 1

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

Sept. 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.

Sept. 3

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

Sept. 8

At the Hard Rock, Las Vegas, TBA.

At Montreal, (ESPN2), Arturo Gatti, Jersey City, N.J., vs. Joe Hutchinson, Indianapolis, 10, welterweights.

Sept. 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. Cliff Couser, Las Vegas, 10, heavyweights; Bronco McKart, Pontiac, Mich., vs. Winky Wright, Miami, 12, for McKart's NABF junior middleweight title; Paul Spadafora, Pittsburgh, vs. TBA, 12, for Spadafora's IBF lightweight title.

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

At Pandrup, Denmark, Michael Rask, Denmark, vs. Christian Endl, Austria, 12, junior middleweights.

Sept. 15

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

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

At the Orleans, Las Vegas, TBA.

Sept. 16

At the MGM, Las Vegas, (Showtime), William Joppy, Washington, vs. Hacine Cherifi, France, 12, for Joppy's WBA middleweight title; Fabrice Tiozzo, France, vs. Virgil Hill, Bismarck, N.D., 12, for Tiozzo's WBA cruiserweight title; Joel Casamayor, Cuba, vs. Radford Beasley, 12, for Casamayor's WBA junior lightweight title.

At Bethnal Green, England, Herbie Hide, England, vs. Wayne Llewelyn, England, 10, heavyweights.

Sept. 17

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

Sept. 22

At Philadelphia, (ESPN2), Golden Johnson, Wichita Falls, Tx., vs. Alex Bunema, Dallas, 10, welterweights.

Sept. 23

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

Sept. 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.

Oct. 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.

Nov. 11

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