Fight schedule

Thursday, Aug. 16, 2001 | 8:53 a.m.

Friday

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

Saturday

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.

Sunday

At West Wendover, Nev., (Univision), Juan Manuel Marquez, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, featherweights; Butterbean Esch, Jasper, Ala., vs. Billy Zumbrun, Ogden, 4, heavyweights.

Aug. 24

At the Orleans, Las Vegas, Ruben Sanchez-Leon, Mexico, vs. Ricardo Vargas, Mexico, 10, bantamweights.

At Harrah's, Reno, TBA.

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. 26

At San Juan, Puerto Rico, (Univision), Wilfredo Negron, Puerto Rico, vs. Ahmed Santos, Phoenix, 10, junior middleweights.

Aug. 31

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

At Gulfport, Miss., Clifford Etienne, Baton Rouge, La., vs. Ken Murphy, Chicago, 10, heavyweights.

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. Veerapol Sahaprom, Thailand, 12, for Sahaprom's WBC junior bantamweight title.

At El Paso, Tx., (Showtime), Juan Lazcano, Sacramento, vs. Julio Alvarez, Mexico, 10, lightweights.

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.

At San Jaciento, Calif., (Univision), Bobby Velardez, San Bernardino, Calif., vs. TBA, 10, featherweights.

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; Byron Mitchell vs. Manny Siaca, 12, for Mitchell's WBA super middleweight title; Ricardo Lopez, Mexico, vs. Zolani Petelo, 12, for Lopez's IBF junior flyweight title.

At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, (Showtime), Efren Hinojosa, Mexico, vs. Jauquin Gallardo, 12, for Hinojosa's USBA lightweight title.

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), Jorge Paez, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, lightweights.

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. 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. 28

At Caesars Palace, TBA.

Sept. 29

At TBA, (Showtime), Joel Casamayor, Cuba, vs. TBA, 12, for Casamayor's WBA junior lightweight title; Steve Forbes, Las Vegas, vs. John Brown, Lexington, Ky., 12, for Forbes' IBF junior lightweight title; Acelino Freitas, Brazil, vs. TBA, 12, junior lightweights.

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; Julio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., vs. Cesar Bazan, Mexico, 10, lightweights.

Oct. 8

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

Oct. 13

At TBA, Adan Vargas, Mexico, vs. Eidy Moya, Mexico, 12, for vacant WBA bantamweight title.

Oct. 28

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

Nov. 2

At Buffalo, N.Y., (ESPN2), Joe Mesi, Buffalo, vs. Cliff Couser, Las Vegas, 10, heavyweights.

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 the Hilton, Reno, TBA.

Dec. 21

At Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas, TBA.