Fight schedule

Thursday, April 4, 2002 | 12:14 p.m.

Updated April 4, 2002

Friday

At Tijuana, Mexico, (Telefutra), Bobby Velardez, San Bernardino, Calif., vs. Diego Morales, Mexico, 12, for Velardez's USBA super bantamweight title.

At Buffalo, N.Y., (ESPN2), Joe Mesi, Buffalo, vs. Keith McKnight, Denver, 10, heavyweights; John Michael Johnson, San Antonio, vs. Oscar Leon, Mexico, 10, featherweights.

Saturday

At Copenhagen, Denmark, Armand Krajnc, Sweden, vs. Harry Simon, Nambia, 12, middleweights.

Sunday

At San Jacinto, Calif., (FSN), Jhonny Gonzalez, Mexico, vs. Ricardo Vargas, Mexico, 12, for Vargas' NABF bantamweight title.

Tuesday

At Rosemont, Ill., (ESPN), Antwun Echols, Davenport, Iowa, vs. Kabary Salem, Brooklyn, N.Y., 12, super middleweights; O'Neil Bell, Atlanta, vs. Dale Brown, Canada, 12, for Bell's NABF cruiserweight title.

April 12

At the Stardust, Las Vegas, Willie Stewart, Las Vegas, vs. Keith Sims, Cleveland, Mo., 12, super middleweights.

At Union City, N.J., (Telefutra), Chelo Diaz, Dominican Republic, vs. Roger Medal, Nicaragua, 10, featherweights.

April 13

At the Fremont Steet Experience, Las Vegas, (Showtime), Luis Collazo, Brooklyn, N.Y., vs. Edwin Cassiani, Colombia, 10, welterweights.

At Chester, Va., (Showtime), Fres Oquendo, Puerto Rico, vs. David Tua, Las Vegas, 12, for Oquendo's NABF heavyweight title.

At Campione, Italy, Cory Spinks, St. Louis, vs. Michele Piccirillo, Italy, 12, for vacant IBF welterweight title.

At Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, Lakva Sim, Mongolia, vs. Yodsanan 3K-Battery, 12, junior lightweights.

April 14

At the Hard Rock, Las Vegas, (FSN), Glencoffe Johnson vs. Derrick Harmon, Las Vegas, 10, light heavyweights.

April 15

At Tijuana, Mexico, (Telefutra), Cesar Bazan, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, lightweights.

April 17

At Johannesburg, South Africa, Cassius Baloyi, South Africa, vs. Tiger Ari, 10, featherweights.

April 19

At Copenhagen, Denmark, Eidy Moya, Venezuela, vs. Johnny Bredahl, Denmark, 12, for Moya's WBA bantamweight title.

At Khonkaen, Thailand, Pongsaklek Singwangcha, Thailand, vs. Daisuke Naito, Japan, 12, for Singwangcha's WBC flyweight title.

At Edinburg, Tx., (Telefutra), Heriberto Ruiz. Mexico, vs. Jorge Eliecer Julio, Colombia, 10, bantamweights.

At the Orleans, Las Vegas, TBA.

At San Antonio, Tx., Omar Davila, San Antonio, vs. TBA, 10, junior welterweights.

April 20

At Cardiff, Wales, (Showtime), Joe Calzaghe, England, vs. Charles Brewer, Philadelphia, 12, super middleweights.

At the MGM, Las Vegas, (HBO), Floyd Mayweather Jr., Las Vegas, vs. Jose Luis Castillo, Mexico, 12, for Castillo's WBC lightweight title; Alejandro Gonzalez, Mexico, vs. Stevie Johnston, Denver, 10, lightweights.

At Dansk, Poland, Dariusz Michalczewski, Poland, vs. Joey DeGrandis, New York, 12, light heavyweights; Istvan Kovacs, Hungary, vs. TBA, 10, featherweights.

At Paterson, N.J., Khalid Jones, Paterson, vs. Tyrone Glover, Philadelphia, 8, light heavyweights.

April 21

At the Flamingo, Laughlin, Jeremy Williams, Long Beach, Calif., vs. David Bostice, Mesa, Az., 10, heavyweights.

April 26

At Lemoore, Calif., (ESPN2), Julio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., vs. Juan Valenzuela, Mexico, 10, lightweights; Omar Weis, Argentina, vs. TBA, 10, junior welterweights; Montell Griffin, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, light heavyweights.

April 27

At New York, (HBO), Jameel McCline, Port Washington, N.Y., vs. Shannon Briggs, New York, 10, heavyweights; Johnny Tapia, Albuquerque, vs. Manuel Medina, Mexico, 12, for Medina's IBF featherweight title; Ricardo Williams, Cincinnati, vs. Israel Cordona, Hartford, 10, junior welterweights.

At the Stratosphere, Las Vegas, Kevin Kelley, Las Vegas, vs. Raul Martin Franco, Mexico, 10, junior lightweights; Emmett Linton, Tacoma, Wash., vs. Rene Herrera, El Paso, Tx., 10, junior middleweights.

At Anaheim, Calif., Julio Gonzalez, Huntington Beach, Calif., vs. Joseph Kiwanuka, Las Vegas, 10, light heavyweights.

At Uncasville, Conn., (Showtime), Cliff Etienne, New Orleans, vs. Terrence Lewis, Philadelphia, 10, heavyweights.

May 3

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

At the Orleans, Las Vegas, (Telefutra), TBA.

May 4

At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, (PPV), Oscar De La Hoya, East Los Angeles, vs. Fernando Vargas, Oxnard, Calif., 12, for De La Hoya's WBC and Vargas' WBA junior middleweight titles; Miguel Cotto, Puerto Rico, vs. Justin Juuko, Las Vegas, 10, junior welterweights.

May 10

At Dover, Del., (ESPN2), Kassim Ouma, West Palm Beach, Fla., vs. Jason Papillion, Lafayette, La., 12, middleweights.

May 11

At San Juan, Puerto Rico, (HBO), Felix Trinidad, Puerto Rico, vs. Hacine Cherifi, France, 10, junior middleweights; Randall Bailey, Miami, vs. Dioblys Hurtado, Miami, 10, junior middleweights.

At TBA, Thailand, Veerapol Sahaprom, Thailand, vs. Toshiaka Nishioka, Japan, 12, for Sahaprom's WBC bantamweight title.

May 17

At Sacramento, Calif., Willie Jorrin, Sacramento, vs. Israel Vazquez, Mexico, 12, for Jorrin's WBC super bantamweight title.

May 18

At TBA, (Showtime), Kostya Tszyu, Australia, vs. Ben Tackie, Ghana, 12, for Tszyu's WBC, WBA and IBF junior welterweight titles; Ricky Hatton, England, vs. TBA, 10, junior welterweights.

At TBA, (HBO), Arturo Gatti, Montreal, vs. Mickey Ward, Lowell, Mass., 10, junior welterweights.

At TBA, Japan, Osamu Sato, Japan, vs. Yoddamrong Sithyodthrong, Thailand, for Sithyodthrong's WBA super bantamweight title.

At London, England, Naseem Hamed, England, vs. Manuel Calvo, Spain, 12, featherweights.

May 24

At Niagara Falls, Canada, Razor Ruddock, Canada, vs. Vaughn Bean, Chicago, 10, heavyweights.

At TBA, (ESPN2), Omar Sheika, New York, vs. TBA, 10, super middleweights; Kelvin Davis, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 12, for Davis' USBA cruiserweight title.

May 25

At Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Victor Polo, Colombia, vs. Johnny Walker, 12, featherweights.

May 26

At Rome, Italy, Wayne Braithwaite, Guyana, vs. Vincenzo Cantatore, Italy, 12, for vacant WBC cruiserweight title.

June 1

At Nuremberg, Germany, Sven Ottke, Germany, vs. Thomas Tate, Houston, 12, for Ottke's IBF super middleweight title.

June 8

At Memphis, Tenn., (PPV), Lennox Lewis, England, vs. Mike Tyson, Catskills, N.Y., 12, for Lewis' WBC and IBF heavyweight titles.

June 22

At the MGM, Las Vegas, (PPV), Marco Antonio Barrera, Mexico, vs. Erik Morales, Mexico, 12, featherweights; Pedro Alcazar, Mexico, vs. Fernando Montiel, Mexico, 12, junior bantamweights.

August 3

At TBA, (Showtime), Acelino Freitas, Brazil, vs. Daniel Attah, Nigeria, for Freitas' WBA junior lightweight title.