Fight schedule

Thursday, Aug. 2, 2001 | 10:02 a.m.

Updated Aug. 2, 2001

Friday

At Yakima, Wash., Angel Manfredy, Gary, Ind., vs. Lamar Murphy, Miami, 10, lightweights.

Saturday

At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, (HBO), Wladimir Klitschko, Ukraine, vs. Charles Shufford, Las Vegas, 12, heavyweights; Paulie Ayala, Fort Worth, vs. Bones Adams, Las Vegas, 12, super bantamweights; Juan Carlos Gomez, Cuba, vs. Al Cole, Spring Valley, N.Y., 8, heavyweights.

At Marseille, France, Bruno Girard, France, vs. Lou Del Valle, New York, 12, for vacant WBA light heavyweight title.

At Washington Heights, N.Y., (Showtime), Chelo Diaz, Dominican Republic, vs. John Michael Johnson, San Antonio, 10, featherweights.

Sunday

At the Plaza, Las Vegas, (Univision), Guty Espadas, Mexico, vs. Sergio Sanchez, Mexico, 10, featherweights.

Tuesday

At Belterra, Ind., (ESPN2), Julio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., vs. Dario Esalas, Colombia, 10, lightweights; Jorge Lacierva, Mexico, vs. Heriberto Ruiz, Mexico, 10, bantamweights.

Aug. 8

At Erie, Pa., Lou Bizzaro Jr., Erie, vs. Dean Nichols, Columbus, Ohio, 10, junior welterweights.

Aug. 10

At Ledyard, Conn., Ray Oliviera, Boston, vs. Ben Tackie, Ghana, 12, for Oliviera's NABF junior welterweight title.

Aug. 12

At Phoenix, Az., (Univision), Antonio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., vs. TBA, 10, junior welterweights.

At Elgin, Ill., (FSN), Corey Sanders, Mitchellville, Md., vs. Wolfgramm, Tonga, 10, heavyweights; Michael Lerma, Waco, Tx., vs. Jason Papillion, Broussard, La., 10, junior middleweights.

Aug. 17

At Chicago, (ESPN2), Cory Spinks, St. Louis, vs. Larry Marks, New Castle, Del., 12, for vacant USBA welterweight title.

Aug. 18

At the Cox Pavilion, Las Vegas, (Showtime), David Tua, Las Vegas, vs. Chris Byrd, Flint, 12, heavyweights; Augie Sanchez, Las Vegas, vs. Robbie Peden, Australia, 12, for Peden's NABF and vacant USBA featherweight titles.

Aug. 19

At West Wendover, Nev., (Univision), Juan Manuel Marquez, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, featherweights.

Aug. 24

At the Orleans, Las Vegas, TBA.

At Harrah's, Reno, TBA, Cliff Couser, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights.

At Niagara Falls, N.Y., Razor Ruddock, Canada, vs. Egerton Marcus, Canada, 10, heavyweights.

Aug. 25

At the Flamingo, Laughlin, TBA.

Sept. 1

At Magdeburg, Germany, Sven Ottke, Germany, vs. James Butler, Baltimore, 12, for Ottke's IBF super middleweight title.

At Yokohama, Japan, Celes Kobayashi, Japan, vs. Jesus Rojas, Mexico, 12, for Kobayashi's WBA junior bantamweight title; Toshiaki Nishioka, Japan, vs. Eidy Moya, Mexico, 12, for vacant WBA bantamweight title.

Sept. 8

At Copenhagen, Denmark, Mike Tyson, Catskills, N.Y., vs. Brian Nielsen, Denmark, 10, heavyweights.

At Reno, Lawlor Events Center, (HBO), Marco Antonio Barrera, Mexico, vs. Enrique Sanchez, Mexico, 10, featherweights.

Sept. 14

At San Francisco, (ESPN2), Omar Sheika, New York, vs. Mads Larsen, Denmark, 10, super middleweights.

Sept. 15

At New York, (HBO), Bernard Hopkins, Philadelphia, vs. Felix Trinidad, Puerto Rico, 12, for Hopkins' IBF and WBC and Trinidad's WBA middleweight titles.

At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, (Showtime), TBA.

At Hamburg, Germany, Dariusz Michalczewski, Germany, vs. TBA, 12, light heavyweights.

At Agadir, Morocco, Khalid Rahilou, France, vs. TBA, 12, junior welterweights.

Sept. 16

At Paris Las Vegas, (Univision), TBA.

Sept. 21

At the Orleans, Las Vegas, TBA.

Sept. 22

At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, (HBO), Fernando Vargas, Oxnard, Calif., vs. Shibata Flores, Mexico, 12, for vacant WBA junior middleweight title.

Sept. 23

At the Las Vegas Hilton, Las Vegas, TBA.

Sept. 24

At Yokohama, Japan, Masamori Tokuyama, Japan, vs. Gerry Penalosa, Philippines, 12, for Tokuyama's WBC junior bantamweight title.

Sept. 29

At Offenbach, Germany, Willi Fischer, Germany, vs. Joseph Akhasamba, Kenya, 12, heavyweights.

Oct. 5

At Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas, TBA.

Oct. 6

At Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas, (HBO), Floyd Mayweather Jr., Las Vegas, vs. Jesus Chavez, Mexico, 12, for Mayweather's WBC junior lightweight title.

Oct. 28

At Beijing, China, (PPV), John Ruiz, Chelsea, Mass., vs. Evander Holyfield, Atlanta, 12, for Ruiz's WBA heavyweight title.

Nov. 3

At Uncasville, Conn., (Showtime), Zab Judah, New York, vs. Kostya Tszyu, Australia, 12, for Judah's IBF and Tszyu's WBC and WBA junior welterweight titles.

Nov. 10

At TBA, (PPV), Hasim Rahman, Baltimore, vs. Lennox Lewis, England, 12, for Rahman's WBC and IBF heavyweight titles.

Nov. 30

At Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas, TBA.

Dec. 1

At TBA, Erik Morales, Mexico, vs. Guty Espadas, Mexico, 12, for Morales' WBC featherweight title; Marco Antonio Barrera, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, featherweights.

Dec. 21

At Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas, TBA.