Fight schedule

Thursday, May 4, 2000 | 10 a.m.

For May 4, 2000

Friday

At Cherokee, N.C., (ESPN2), Antwun Echols, Davenport, Iowa, vs. Lionel Ortiz, Los Angeles, 12, for vacant NABF middleweight title; J.C. Candelo, Atlanta, vs. Mario Iribarren, Miami, 10, junior middleweights.

At the Hard Rock, Las Vegas, Mario Cawley, Chicago, vs. Ed Mahone, Los Angeles, 10, heavyweights; Charles Shufford, Las Vegas, vs. Derrick Banks, Detroit, 10, heavyweights.

Saturday

At Neuss, Germany, Juan Carlos Gomez, Germany, vs. Imamu Mayfield, Atlantic City, 12, for Gomez's WBC cruiserweight title.

At Frankfurt, Germany, Markus Beyer, Germany, vs. Glenn Catley, England, 12, for Beyer's WBC super middleweight title.

At Las Cruces, N.M., (Showtime), Johnny Tapia, Albuquerque, vs. Javier Torres, Mexico, 12, bantamweights; Danny Romero, Albuquerque, vs. Jorge Munoz, Mexico, 12, featherweights; David Sample, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, junior welterweights.

At Pittsburgh, (HBO), Paul Spadafora, Pittsburgh, vs. Mike Griffith, Cleveland, 12, for Spadafora's IBF lightweight title; Lamon Brewster, Los Angeles, vs. Cliff Etienne, Baton Rouge, 10, heavyweights.

At Chihuahua, Mexico, Saul Duran, Mexico, vs. Jose Luis Juarez, Mexico, 12, lightweights.

May 11

At Fresno, Calif., Carlos Navarro, Los Angeles, vs. Jorge Munoz, Mexico, 10, junior lightweights.

May 12

At Miami, (ESPN2), John John Molina, Puerto Rico, vs. Emanuel Burton, Chicago, 10, junior welterweights.

May 13

At Indianapolis, (HBO), Roy Jones, Pensacola, Fla., vs. Richard Hall, Winter Haven, Fla., 12, for Jones' WBA, WBC and IBF light heavyweight titles; Bernard Hopkins, Philadelphia, vs. Syd Vanderpool, Canada, 12, for Hopkins' IBF middleweight title.

At Villa Park, Ill., Angel Hernandez, Chicago, vs. Julio De La Cruz, Dominican Republic, 12, junior middleweights.

May 14

At South Korea, In-Joo Cho, South Korea, vs. Julio Cesar Avila, Mexico, 12, for In-Joo's WBC junior bantamweight title.

May 17

At New York, Sherman Williams, Las Vegas, vs. Jameel McCline, Port Jefferson, N.Y., 10, heavyweights; Alex Zolkin, Westerville, Ohio, vs. Eliecer Castillo, Miami, 10, heavyweights.

May 19

At Udonthai, Thailand, Medgoen Singsurat, Thailand, vs. Malcolm Tunacao, Philippines, 12, for Singsurat's WBC flyweight title.

May 20

At Atlantic City, N.J., (HBO), Derrick Jefferson, Detroit, vs. Oleg Maskaev, Staten Island, N.Y., 10, heavyweights; Corrie Sanders, South Africa, vs. Hasim Rahman, 12, heavyweights.

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

At Biloxi, Miss. David Izon, Pensacola, Fla., vs. Reynaldo Minus, Bahamas, 10, heavyweights.

At Tunica, Miss., (Showtime), William Joppy, Seabrook, Md., vs. Rito Ruvalcaba, Mexico, 12, for Joppy's WBA middleweight title; Julio Gamboa, Nicaragua, vs. Felix Machado, Venezuela, 12, junior bantamweights.

May 21

At Kansas City, (FSN), Joel Casamayor, Cuba, vs. Jong-Kwon Baek, Korea, for Baek's WBA junior lightweight title; Goyo Vargas, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, junior lightweights; Limmie Young, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 8, welterweights.

May 24

At Carnival City, South Africa, Cassius Baloyi, South Africa, vs. Hector Lizarrage, Fresno, 12, featherweights.

May 28

At Irvine, Calif., Raul Franco, Mexico, vs. Danny Perez, El Cajon, Calif., 10, welterweights.

June 3

At Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Pichinoi Siriwat, Thailand, vs. Rosendo Alvarez, Mexico, 12, for Siriwat's WBA light flyweight title; Zab Judah, New York, vs. Jason Rowland, 12, junior welterweights.

June 10

At Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, (PPV), Evander Holyfield, Atlanta, vs. John Ruiz, Boston, 12, for vacant WBA heavyweight title; James Page, Pittsburg, Calif., vs. Andrew Lewis, 12, for Page's WBA welterweight title; Randall Bailey, Miami, vs. TBA, 12, junior welterweights.

June 11

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

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. TBA, 10, welterweights.

June 24

At Milan, Italy, (Showtime), Mike Tyson, Catskills, N.Y., vs. Lou Savarese, New York, 10, heavyweights.

June 25

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

July 1

At the MGM, Las Vegas, Kostya Tszyu, Australia, vs. Julio Cesar Chavez, Mexico, 12, for Tszyu's WBC junior welterweight title.

July 15

At London, England, Lennox Lewis, England, vs. Frans Botha, South Africa, 12, for Lewis' WBC and IBF heavyweight championships.