Fight schedule

Thursday, Aug. 9, 2001 | 10:14 a.m.

Updated Aug. 9, 2001

Friday

At Ledyard, Conn., (ESPN2), Ray Oliviera, Boston, vs. Ben Tackie, Ghana, 12, for Oliviera's NABF junior welterweight title.

Saturday

At Little Rock, Ark., (HBO), Jermain Taylor, Little Rock, vs. Shakir Ashante, Greensboro, N.C., 6, middleweights.

At Miami, Nicky Bentz, Mexico, vs. Hector Acero-Sanchez, Dominican Republic, 12, featherweights.

At Denver, Dennis Allen, Las Vegas, vs. Verno Phillips, Atlanta, 12, junior middleweights.

At Mendoza, Argentina, Julio Pablo Chacon, Argentina, vs. Edward Barrios, Mexico, 12, featherweights.

Sunday

At Phoenix, Az., (Univision), Antonio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., vs. Edwin Cassiani, Colombia, 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.

At Uncasville, Conn., Emmanuel Lucero, Bronx, N.Y., vs. John Lowey, Ireland, 12, junior bantamweights; Kermit Cintron, Puerto Rico, vs. Said Quali, Morocco, 8, welterweights.

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, Oleg Maskaev, Kazakhstan, vs. Brian Nix, Rochester, N.Y., 10, heavyweights; Ron Guerrero, Corpus Christi, Tx., vs. Terrance Lewis, Philadelphia, 10, heavyweights.

At San Antonio, Tx., Omar Davilla, San Antonio, vs. TBA, 8, junior welterweights.

Aug. 31

At Baltimore, Teddy Reid, Jamaica, vs. Joe Hutchinson, Indianapolis, 12, for vacant USBA junior welterweight title.

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. 2

At Philadelphia, Miss., (FSN), Obed Sullivan, Houston, vs. Fres Oquendo, Chicago, 12, for Sullivan's NABF heavyweight title.

Sept. 7

At TBA, J.C. Candelo, Colombia, vs. Alex Bumena, Zaire, 12, for vacant NABF junior middleweight title.

Sept. 6

At Lemoore, Calif., Tim Witherspoon, Philadelphia, vs. Mike Sedillo, Denver, 10, heavyweights.

Sept. 8

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

At the Lawlor Events Center, Reno, (HBO), Marco Antonio Barrera, Mexico, vs. Enrique Sanchez, Mexico, 10, featherweights; Vissiliy Jirov, Kazakhstan, vs. Julian Letterlough, Reading, Pa., 12, for Jirov's IBF cruiserweight title; Fernando Montiel, Mexico, vs. Jose Carita Lopez, Puerto Rico, 12, flyweights.

Sept. 9

At Yokohama, Japan, Chana Porpaoin, Thailand, vs. Yutaka Niida, Japan, 12, for WBA strawweight title.

Sept. 14

At San Francisco, (ESPN2), Omar Sheika, New York, vs. Thomas Tate, Houston, 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. Richard Hall, Jamaica, 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. 26

At Atlanta, Ga., Robert Allen, New Orleans, vs. Marlon Hayes, Newark, N.J., 12, for vacant NABF and USBA middleweight titles.

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; Jose Luis Castillo, Mexico, vs. Carlos Gerena, Puerto Rico, 12, for Castillo's WBC lightweight title.

Oct. 8

At Paris, France, Julien Lorcy, France, vs. Raul Balbi, Argentina, 12, for Lorcy's WBA 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. 21

At Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas, TBA.