Fight schedule

Thursday, Aug. 30, 2001 | 11:01 a.m.

Updated Aug. 30, 2001

Friday

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.

Saturday

At Magdeburg, Germany, Sven Ottke, Germany, vs. James Butler, Baltimore, 12, for Ottke's IBF super middleweight title; Fighting Nordin, Denmark, vs. Sidney Msuthu, South Africa, 12, middleweights; Ruediger May, Germany, vs. Baldwin Hiongwane, South Africa, 12, cruiserweights.

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, 12, lightweights; Juan Diaz, Houston, vs. Ubaldo Hernandez, Mexico, 8, lightweights.

Sunday

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

Sept. 7

At Temecula, Calif., 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 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 Jacienta, Calif., (Univision), Bobby Velardez, San Bernardino, Calif., vs. David Donis, Houston, 12, for vacant USBA super bantamweight title.

Sept. 14

At San Francisco, (ESPN2), Omar Sheika, New York, vs. Thomas Tate, Houston, 10, super middleweights.

At Sheffield, England, Clinton Woods, England, vs. Yawe Davis, Uganda, 12, light heavyweights.

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, San Leandro, Calif., 12, for Hinojosa's USBA lightweight title; Francisco Bojado, Los Angeles, vs. Edeazar Contreras, Bakersfield, Calif., 10, lightweights.

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.

At Philadelphia, (ESPN2), Manard Reed vs. Mike Stewart, 10, junior middleweights.

Sept. 22

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

At Newark, N.J., Vaughn Bean, Chicago, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights.

At London, England, Danny Williams, England, vs. TBA, 12, heavyweights.

Sept. 23

At West Wendover, Nev., (Univision), Yory Boy Campas, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, junior middleweights.

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 Miami, Fla., (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.

Sept. 30

At Rising Sun, Indiana, (Univision), Danny Perez, El Cajon, Calif., vs. TBA, 10, welterweights.

Oct. 5

At Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas, TBA.

Oct. 8

At Paris, France, Julien Lorcy, France, vs. Raul Balbi, Argentina, 12, for Lorcy's WBA lightweight title; Mamdou Thiam, France, vs. Paolo Pizzamiglio, Italy, 12, junior middleweights.

Oct. 12

At Buffalo, N.Y., Razor Ruddock, Canada, vs. Edgerton Marcus, Canada, 12, heavyweights; Cliff Couser, Las Vegas, vs. Joe Mesi, Buffalo, 10, heavyweights.

At TBA, (ESPN2), Winky Wright vs. Robert Frazier, 12, for vacant IBF junior middleweight title.

Oct. 13

At Copenhagen, Denmark, (Showtime), Mike Tyson, Phoenix, vs. Brian Nielsen, Denmark, 10, heavyweights.

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. 3

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

Nov. 17

At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, (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. 8

At TBA, (HBO), Oscar De La Hoya, East Los Angeles, vs. Roman Karmazin, Russia, 12, for De La Hoya's WBC junior middleweight title.

Dec. 9

At Toulouse, France, Virgil Hill, Bismarck, N.D., vs. Jean Marc Moreck, France, 12, for Hill's WBA cruiserweight title.

Dec. 21

At Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas, TBA.

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