Fight schedule

Thursday, May 25, 2000 | 10:01 a.m.

Tonight

At Tunica, Miss., (DirecTV), Ray Mercer, Newark, vs. Anthony Willis, St. Louis, 10, heavyweights; Oliver McCall, Chicago, vs. Marcus McIntyre, Princeton, N.J., 10, heavyweights; Larry Donald, Cincinnati, vs. Phil Jackson, Miami, 10, heavyweights; Henry Akinwande, Tallahassee, vs. Russell Chasteen, England, 10, heavyweights.

At Mendoza, Argentina, Freddie Norwood, Las Vegas, vs. Julio Pablo Chacon, Argentina, 12, for Norwood's WBA featherweight title; James Crayton, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, junior welterweights.

Friday

At Toronto, Canada, Trevor Berbick, Canada, vs. Shane Sutcliffe, Canada, 10, heavyweights.

At Holbaek, Denmark, Thomas Damgaard, Denmark, vs. Fontaine Cabell, 12, welterweights; Jesper Jensen, Denmark, vs. Xolani Ndleleni, South Africa, 12, junior bantamweights; Dennis Holbaek, Denmark, vs. Marty Jakubowski, Indianapolis, 12, lightweights.

At Mashantucket, Conn., (ESPN2), Angel Vasquez, Hartford, vs. Jose Pantaleon, New York, 10, featherweights; Thomas Tate, Houston, vs. Anthony Andrews, Guyana, 10, super middleweights.

Sunday

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

June 2

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.

June 3

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.

At Panama City, Panama, Roberto Duran, Puerto Rico, vs. Pat Lawlor, Sacramento, 10, super middleweights.

June 9

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

June 10

At Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, (Showtime), Evander Holyfield, Atlanta, vs. John Ruiz, Methuen, Mass., 12, for vacant WBA heavyweight title; James Page, Pittsburg, Calif., vs. Andrew Lewis, Guyana, 12, for Page's WBA welterweight title; Randall Bailey, Miami, vs. Michael Davis, Indianapolis, 12, junior welterweights.

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.

June 16

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

At the Orleans, Las Vegas, TBA.

At Los Angeles, (ESPN2), Antonio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., vs. TBA, 12, junior 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 23

At the Hard Rock, Las Vegas, TBA.

At Budapest, Hungary, Istvan Kovacs, Hungary, vs. Steve Robinson, England, 12, featherweights.

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

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

August 26

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

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