Fight schedule

Thursday, June 8, 2000 | 10:01 a.m.

Friday

At Romorantin, France, Yannick Paget, France, vs. Sedat Puskullu, France, 12, lightweights.

Saturday

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.

Sunday

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, Steve Forbes, Las Vegas, Ernesto Zepeda, Mexico, 12, welterweights.

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

At Los Angeles, (ESPN2), Antonio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., vs. Demetrio Ceballos, Panama, 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.

At Catania, Italy, Johnny Bredahl, Denmark, vs. Luigi Castiglione, Italy, 12, bantamweights.

June 18

At Regent Las Vegas, Las Vegas, (FSN), Hector Camacho Jr., Puerto Rico, vs. Manard Reed, Steubenville, Ohio, 12, junior welterweights.

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, Houston, 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.

June 28

At Manilla, Philippines, Manny Pacquiao, Philippines, vs. Sung Kon Chae, Korea, 12, super bantamweights.

June 29

At New York, Greg Page, Las Vegas, vs. Robert Davis, Akron, 10, heavyweights; Jameel McCline, Port Jefferson, N.Y., vs. Sherman Williams, Las Vegas, 10, heavyweights.

June 30

At Cranston, R.I., (ESPN2), Ray Oliviera, Boston, vs. Freddie Pendelton, Miami, 10, junior welterweights.

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. Pedro Sanchez, Dominican Republic, 10, welterweights; Emmanuel Lucero, Bronx, N.Y., vs. Juan Polo-Perez, Colombia, 8, super bantamweights.

July 22

At TBA, (HBO), Felix Trinidad, Puerto Rico, vs. Mamadou Thiam, France, for Trinidad's WBA junior middleweight title.

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 5

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

August 6

At TBA, (ABC), Bones Adams, Las Vegas, vs. Antonio Cermeno, Venezuela, 12, for Adams' WBA super bantamweight title.

August 11

At TBA, (ESPN2), Vivian Harris, Philadelphia, vs. Ivan Robinson, Philadelphia, 10, lightweights.

August 18

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

August 19

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

August 26

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