Fight schedule

Thursday, June 1, 2000 | 9:08 a.m.

Updated June 1, 2000

Friday

At Kent, England, Zolani Petelo, South Africa, vs. Mickey Cantwell, England, for Petelo's IBF junior flyweight title.

At Cancun, Mexico, (DirecTV), Roberto Levya, Mexico, vs. Adel Gutierrez, Mexico, 12, bantamweights.

At Philadelphia, (ESPN2), Omar Sheika, Paterson, N.J., vs. Glen Johnson, Jamaica, 10, super middleweights; Billy Irwin, Niagra Falls, vs. Miguel Arrozal, Oakland, 10, lightweights.

Saturday

At the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, (Showtime), David Tua, New Zealand, vs. Obed Sullivan, Houston, 12, for Tua's USBA heavyweight title; Ben Tackie, Los Angeles, vs. Roberto Garcia, Oxnard, Calif., 10, lightweights.

At Imperial, Calif., (Univision), Alejandro Gonzalez, Mexico, vs. Harold Warren, Corpus Christi, 12, featherweights.

At Caserta, Italy, Antonio Perugino, Italy, vs. Johnson Tshuma, South Africa, 12, middleweights.

At Karlsruhe, Germany, Sven Ottke, Germany, vs. Robin Reid, England, 12, for Ottke's IBF super middleweight title.

June 9

At Verona, N.Y., (ESPN2), Wilfredo Rivera, Puerto Rico, vs. TBA, 10, welterweights.

June 10

At Detroit, (HBO), Acelino Freitas, Argentina, vs. Lemuel Nelson, Pensacola, Fla., 10, junior lightweights; Bronco McKart, Monroe, Mich., vs. Jason Papillion, Broussard, La., 12, for Papillion's NABF junior middleweight title.

June 11

At Tokyo, Japan, Gilbert Serrano, Venezuela, vs. Takanori Hatakeyama, Japan, 12, for Serrano's WBA lightweight title.

At Concho, Okla., (FSN), Alex Garcia, Hollywood, vs. Lance Whitaker, Los Angeles, 12, heavyweights; Cliff Couser, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights.

June 16

At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, (Showtime), Andrew Golota, Poland, vs. Orlin Norris, Lubbock, Texas, 10, heavyweights; Wilfredo Vazquez, Puerto Rico, vs. Jesse Leija, San Antonio, 12, for vacant NABF lightweight title.

At the Orleans, Las Vegas, TBA.

At Panama City, Panama, Roberto Duran, Puerto Rico, vs. Pat Lawlor, Sacramento, 12, junior middleweights.

At Los Angeles, (ESPN2), Antonio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., vs. Jyri Kjall, Finland, 12, junior welterweights; David Kamau, Los Angeles, vs. Antonio Margarito, Mexico, 10, welterweights.

At Reno, Merqui Sosa, Las Vegas, vs. Segundo Mercardo, Puerto Rico, 10, welterweights.

June 17

At Los Angeles, (PPV), Oscar De La Hoya, Whittier, Calif., vs. Shane Mosley, Pomona, Calif., 12, for De La Hoya's WBC welterweight title; Erik Morales, Mexico, vs. Mike Jaurez, Omaha, 10, featherweight; Diego Corrales, Sacramento, vs. Justin Juuko, Las Vegas, 12, for Corrales' IBF junior lightweight title; Shannon Taylor, Australia, vs. Miguel Angel Ruiz, Mexico, 10, welterweights.

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

At Marioupol, Ukraine, Alexander Gurov, Ukraine, vs. Samuel Florimond, 12, cruiserweights.

June 18

At Regent Las Vegas, Las Vegas, (FSN), Hector Camacho Jr., Puerto Rico, vs. Manard Reed, Steubenville, Ohio, 12, junior welterweights; Augie Sanchez, Las Vegas, vs. Jose Rodriguez, Miami, 12, for vacant NABF featherweight title.

At Los Angeles, (ABC), Paulie Ayala, Fort Worth, vs. TBA, 12, for Ayala's WBA bantamweight title.

June 22

At Anaheim, Calif., Julio Gonzalez, Huntington Beach, Calif., vs. Jacobo Garica, Mexico, 12, light heavyweights.

June 23

At the Hard Rock, Las Vegas, TBA.

At Budapest, Hungary, Istvan Kovacs, Hungary, vs. Steve Robinson, England, 12, featherweights; Artur Grigorian, Hungary, vs. Zoltan Kalocsa, Hungary, 12, lightweights.

At Merida, Mexico, Guty Espadas, Mexico, vs. TBA, 12, for Espadas' WBC featherweight title.

June 24

At Glasgow, Scotland, (Showtime), Mike Tyson, Catskills, N.Y., vs. Lou Savarese, New York, 10, heavyweights; Zab Judah, New York, vs. Jason Rowland, 12, junior welterweights.

At Reno, (Univision), Cesar Soto, Mexico, vs. Oscar Chololo Larios, Mexico, 12, super bantamweights.

June 25

At Tokyo, Japan, Veeraphol Sahaprom, Thailand, vs. Toshiaki Nishioka, Japan, 12, for Sahaprom's WBC bantamweight title.

At Elgin, Ill., (FSN), Robbie Peden, New Zealand, vs. John Brown, Atlantic City, 12, junior lightweights; Fres Oquendo, Chicago, vs. Ramon Garbey, Miami, 10, heavyweights.

July 15

At London, England, Lennox Lewis, England, vs. Frans Botha, South Africa, 12, for Lewis' WBC and IBF heavyweight championships; Monte Barrett, Queens, N.Y., vs. Wladimir Klitscko, Germany, 10, heavyweights.

At Secaucus, N.J., (Univision), Victor Rosado, Bronx, N.Y., vs. vs. TBA, 10, welterweights; Emmanuel Lucero, Bronx, N.Y., vs. TBA, 8, super bantamweights.

July 29

At Phoenix, Kostya Tszyu, Australia, vs. Julio Cesar Chavez, Mexico, 12, for Tszyu's WBC junior welterweight title.

At TBA, (ESPN2), Yory Boy Campas, Mexico, vs. Tony Ayala, San Antonio, 10, junior middleweights.

At TBA, David Tua, New Zealand, vs. TBA, 12, for Tua's USBA heavyweight title.

August 18

At TBA, (ESPN2), Michael Moorer, Detroit, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights.

August 19

At TBA, Las Vegas, Naseem Hamed, England, vs. TBA, 12, featherweights.

August 26

At TBA, (HBO), Fernando Vargas, Oxnard, Calif., vs. Ross Thompson, Buffalo, 12, for Vargas' IBF junior middleweight title.

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