Fight schedule

Thursday, Dec. 12, 2002 | 8:44 a.m.

Updated Dec. 12, 2002

Friday

At Temecula, Calif., (ESPN2), Angel Hernandez, Chicago, vs. J.C. Candelo, Denver, 12, for Hernandez's NABF super middleweight title; Artyom Simonyan, Glendale, Calif., vs. Radford Beasley, St. Louis, 12, for vacant NABF featherweight title.

At Tucson, Ariz., (Telefutra), Jorge Paez, Mexico, vs. Anthony Martinez, Nicaragua, 10, lightweights.

At Miami, Gerardo Espinoza, Mexico, vs. Francisco Tejedor, Colombia, 12, bantamweights; Luis Bolanos, Colombia, vs. Famosito Gomez, Mexico, 10, bantamweights.

Saturday

At Atlantic City, (HBO), Evander Holyfield, Atlanta, vs. Chris Byrd, Las Vegas, 12, for vacant IBF heavyweight title; Fres Oquendo, Puerto Rico, vs. George Arias, Brazil, 12, heavyweights.

At Newcastle, England, Joe Calzaghe, Wales, vs. Tocker Pudwill, Mandan, N.D., 12, super middleweights; Ricky Hatton, England, vs. Antonio Mesquita, Brazil, 12, junior welterweights.

At Cagliari, Italy, Omar Narvaez vs. Andrea Sarritzu, 12, flyweights.

Dec. 20

At Osaka, Japan, Masamori Tokuyama, Japan, vs. Gerry Penalosa, Philippines, 12, for Tokuyama's WBA junior bantamweight title; Noel Arambulet, Venezuela, vs. Keitaro Hoshino, Japan, 12, for Arambulet's WBA strawweight title.

At Miami, (ESPN2), Joel Casamayor, Miami, vs. Yoni Vargas, Mexico, 12, junior welterweights.

Dec. 27

At the Orleans, Las Vegas, TBA.

Jan. 4

At Washington, D.C., (HBO), DeMarcus Corley, Washington, vs. Randall Bailey, Washington, 12, junior welterweights; Felix Machado, Mexico, vs. Luis Perez, Puerto Rico, for Machado's IBF junior bantamweight title; Rosendo Alvarez, Mexico, vs. Beibis Mendoza, Colombia, 12, for Alvarez's WBA junior flyweight title.

Jan. 11

At Philadelphia, (PPV), Bernard Hopkins, Philadelphia, vs. Morrade Hakkar, France, for Hopkins' WBC, WBA and IBF middleweight titles.

Jan. 16

At Los Angeles, (HBO), Oscar Larios, Mexico, vs. Marcos Licona, Mexico, 12, for Larios' WBC super bantamweight title.

Jan. 17

At Memphis, Tenn., Thomas Hearns, Detroit, vs. Thomas Reid, Jackson, Tenn., 10, cruiserweights.

Jan. 18

At Melbourne, Australia, (Showtime), Kostya Tszyu, Australia, vs. James Leija, San Antonio, Texas, 12, for Tszyu's WBC, WBA and IBF junior welterweight titles.

Jan. 25

At TBA, (HBO), Vernon Forrest, Atlanta, vs. Ricardo Mayorga, Nicaragua, for Forrest's WBC welterweight title; James Toney, Ann Arbor, Mich., vs. Vassiliy Jirov, Kazikhastan, 12, for Jirov's IBF cruiserweight title.

Jan. 28

At London, England, Howard Eastman, England, vs. Erland Betare, France, 12, middleweights.

Jan. 31

At Atlantic City, (ESPN2), Charles Brewer, Philadelphia, vs. Etianne Whitaker, Warren, Ohio, 10, super middleweights.