Fight schedule

Thursday, March 23, 2000 | 9:49 a.m.

Updated March 23, 2000

Friday

At Philadelphia, (ESPN2), James Butler, New York, vs. Arthur Allen, Pittsburgh, for Butler's USBA super middleweight title; Billy Irwin, Canada, vs. John Bailey, Weirton, W.Va., 10, lightweights.

Saturday

At Huntington Park, Calif., (Univision), Cesar Bazan, Mexico, vs. Jose Baltazar, Mexico, 10, lightweights; John Palaki, Las Vegas, vs. Benito Rodriguez, Mexico, 8, junior lightweights; Hector Velazquez, Mexico, vs. Jesse Magana, Fresno, 12, featherweights.

At Tunica, Miss., Brian Barbosa, Passaic, N.J., vs. Urbano Gurrola, Mexico, 12, middleweights.

March 30

At New York, Derrick Jefferson, Detroit, vs. Frankie Swindell, Nashville, 10, heavyweights; Danell Nicholson, Chicago, vs. Terrance Lewis, Philadelphia, 10, heavyweights.

March 31

At Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, Stefan Anghern, Switzerland, vs. Christophe Girard, France, 10, cruiserweights.

April 1

At Regent Las Vegas, Las Vegas, (FSN), Chris Byrd, Flint, vs. Adolpho Washington, Chicago, 12, for vacant NABF heavyweight title; Augie Sanchez,Las Vegas, vs. Jorge Antonio Paredes, Argentina, 10, featherweights; Jorge Luis Gonzalez, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights.

At Nagoya, Japan, Hiroshi Nakano, Japan, vs. Pilkoo Kang, Korea, 12, light flyweights.

At Harrah's, Laughlin, Obed Sullivan, Phoenix, vs. Jeff Lally, Louisville, 10, heavyweights; Derrick Harmon, Las Vegas, vs. Jerry Lee Williams, Gary, 8, light heavyweights.

At Atlantic City, N.J., Ezra Sellers, Pensacola, vs. Willard Lewis, Hobbema, Ala., 12, cruiserweights.

At Berlin, Germany, Vitali Klitschko, Germany, vs. Razor Ruddock, Canada, 12, heavyweights.

April 2

At Nagoya, Japan, Hiroshi Nakano, Japan, vs. Pikoo Kang, Korea, 12, flyweights.

April 6

At Worley, Idaho, Eliecer Castillo, Miami, vs. David Washington, Fayetteville, Ark., 10, heavyweights.

April 7

At Tijuana, Mexico, Diego Morales, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, junior bantamweights; Jorge Arce, Mexico, vs. Alfredo Virgen, Mexico, 10, junior flyweights.

At Verona, N.Y., Rhoshi Wells, Atlanta, vs. Terrance Cauthen, Philadelphia, 10, junior middleweights.

At Bristol, England, Lehlohonolo Ledwaba, South Africa, vs. Ernesto Grey, Colombia, 12, for Ledwaba's IBF super bantamweight title.

April 8

At Paris, France, Fabrice Tiozzo, France, vs. Valery Vikhor, Ukraine, 12, for Tiozzo's WBA cruiserweight title; Byron Mitchell, Washington, vs. Bruno Girard, France, 12, for Mitchell's WBA super middleweight title; Randall Bailey, Miami, vs. Rocky Martinez, Chicago, 12, junior welterweights.

At Bakersfield, Calif., Carlos Navarro, Los Angeles, vs. Jose DeJesus, El Paso, 10, junior lightweights.

At Detroit, Thomas Hearns, Detroit, vs. Matthew Charleston, 10, cruiserweights.

April 9

At Hachinohe, Japan, Joma Gamboa, Philippines, vs. Atsushi Sai, Japan, 12, for Gamboa's WBA strawweight title.

April 10

At Tokyo, Japan, Yuji Watanabe, Japan, vs. Stuart Patterson, Australia, 12, featherweights.

April 11

At Beijing, China, Hector Camacho, Miami, vs. Jerry Balagbagan, Philippines, 10, welterweights.

April 13

At Anaheim, Calif., Pat Coleman, Rockford, Ill., vs. Pedro Ortega, Mexico, 10, welterweights.

April 14

At Merida, Mexico, Guty Espadas, Los Angeles, vs. Luisito Espinosa, Philippines, 12, for vacant WBC featherweight title.

April 15

At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, (HBO), Fernando Vargas, Oxnard, Calif., vs. Ike Quartey, Ghana, 12, for Vargas' IBF junior middleweight title; Vernon Forrest, Atlanta, vs. TBA, 12, for Forrest's NABF welterweight title; Paul Vaden, Washington, vs. Shibata Flores, Mexico, 12, for Vaden's USBA junior middleweight title; Antonio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., vs. Ivan Robinson, Philadelphia, 12, junior welterweights.

At Hannover, Germany, Dariusz Michalczewski, Poland, vs. Graciano Rocchigiani, Germany, 12, light heavyweights.

April 16

At Akashi, Japan, Masakazu Satake, Japan, vs. Steven Marks, Japan, 12, junior welterweights.

April 22

At the Avi Casino, Laughlin, TBA.

At Guangzhou, China, Andrew Golota, Poland, vs. Marcus Rhode, Oklahoma City, 10, heavyweights; Iran Barkley, Chicago, vs. TBA, 10, cruiserweights; Montell Griffin, Chicago, vs. TBA, 10, light heavyweights.

April 24

At Ledyard, Conn., (ESPN2), Dana Rosenblatt, Malden, Mass., vs. James Crawford, Grinnell, Iowa, 10, super middleweights.

April 28

At Lafayette, La., Vince Phillips, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, junior welterweights.

April 29

At New York, (PPV), Lennox Lewis, England, vs. Michael Grant, New York, for Lewis' WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight championships; Junior Jones, New York, vs. Paul Ingle, England, 12, featherweights.

At London, England, Keith Holmes, Washington, vs. Robert McCracken, England, 12, for Holmes' WBC middleweight title.

May 5

At TBA, Antwun Echols, Davenport, Iowa, vs. Andrew Council, Washington, 12, middleweights.

May 6

At TBA, Juan Carlos Gomez, Germany, vs. James Toney, Las Vegas, 12, for Gomez's WBC cruiserweight title.

May 20

At Milan, Italy, (Showtime), Mike Tyson, Catskills, N.Y., vs. Lou Savarese, New York, 10, heavyweights; Zab Judah, Brooklyn, vs. TBA, 12, junior welterweights.

At Osaka, Japan, Masamori Tokuyama, Japan, vs. Jack Siahaya, Indonesia, 12, junior bantamweights.

June 3

At Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, (PPV), Evander Holyfield, Atlanta, vs. John Ruiz, Boston, 12, heavyweights.

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.