Fight schedule

Thursday, July 18, 2002 | 8:30 a.m.

Updated July 18, 2002

Friday

At Yakima, Wash., (ESPN2), Vince Phillips, Las Vegas, vs. Carlos Wilches, 10, junior welterweights.

At Chicago, Wilfredo Rivera, Puerto Rico, vs. Freddie Cuevas, Chicago, 10, junior middleweights.

Saturday

At Indianapolis (HBO), Vernon Forrest, Atlanta, vs. Shane Mosley, Pomona, Calif., 12, for Forrest's WBC welterweight title; Eric Harding, Philadelphia, vs. Antonio Tarver, Orlando, 10, light heavyweights.

At Dortmund, Germany, Luan Krasniqi, Germany, vs. Przemyslaw Saleta, Poland, 12, heavyweights.

At Bayamon, Puerto Rico, Daniel Santos, Puerto Rico, vs. Mehrdud Takalobighashi, aka Takaloo, Iran, 12, junior middleweights.

Sunday

At Friant, Calif., (FSN), Derrick Harmon, Las Vegas, vs. Montell Griffin, Las Vegas, 12, light heavyweights; Steve Quinonez, Hot Desert Springs, Calif., vs. Jose Luis Juarez, Mexico, 10, lightweights.

Tuesday

At New Rochelle, N.Y., (ESPN2), Aaron Davis, New York, vs. Ross Thompson, Buffalo, 10, junior middleweights.

July 25

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

At Chester, W.Va., (ESPN), Tito Mendoza, Panama, vs. Robert Allen, New Orleans, 12, middleweights; Robert Frazier, Rochester, N.Y., vs. Curtis Barker, Philadelphia, 10, welterweights.

July 26

At the Orleans, Las Vegas, Nevada Stupak, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 4, cruiserweights.

At Lemoore, Calif., (Telefutra), Jorge Paez, Mexico, vs. Augustin Lorenzo, Mexico, 10, lightweights.

At Chester, W.Va., (ESPN2), Derek Bryant, Philadelphia, vs. Cory Sanders, Washington, 10, heavyweights.

July 27

At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, (HBO), John Ruiz, Las Vegas, vs. Kirk Johnson, Canada, 12, for Ruiz's WBA heavyweight title; Tim Austin, Cincinnati, vs. Adan Vargas, Mexico, 12, for Austin's IBF bantamweight title; Byron Mitchell, Ozark, Ala., vs. Julio Cesar Green, Dominican Republic, 12, for Mitchell's WBA super middleweight title.

At Norfolk, Va., (PPV), Larry Holmes, Easton, Pa., vs. Butterbean Esch, Jasper, Ala., 10, heavyweights.

At Bilox, Miss., (Showtime), Justo Sencion, New York, vs. Juan Golo-Gomez Trinidad, Puerto Rico, 10, lightweights.

At New Orleans (Showtime), Clifford Etienne, New Orleans, vs. Frans Botha, South Africa, 10, heavyweights.

At Carnival City, South Africa, Benedict Ledwaba, South Africa, vs. Vuyani Bungu, South Africa, 10, super bantamweights.

July 30

At Concho, Okla., (ESPN2), Miguel Cotto, Puerto Rico, vs. Luis Ugalde, Mexico, 10, lightweights.

July 31

At Osaka, Japan, Alexander Munoz, Venezuela, vs. Eiji Kojima, Japan, 12, for Munoz's WBA junior bantamweight title.

Aug. 2

At Midland, Texas, (Telefutra), Hector Acero-Sanchez, Mexico, vs. TBA, 12, super bantamweights.

At Ledyard, Conn., (ESPN2), Charles Brewer, Philadelphia, vs. Scott Pemberton, Boston, 10, super middleweights.

Aug. 3

At Phoenix (Showtime), Acelino Freitas, Brazil, vs. Daniel Attah, Nigeria, 12, junior lightweights; Antwun Echols, Dade City, Fla., vs. Richard Grant, Brooklyn, N.Y., 12, for Echols' NABF super middleweight title.

Aug. 6

At Secaucas, N.J., (ESPN2), George Jones, Atlantic City, vs. Demetrius Jenkins, Detroit, 10, light heavyweights.

Aug. 9

At the Orleans, Las Vegas, (ESPN2), Roberto Leyva, Mexico, vs. Miguel Barrera, Colombia, 12, strawweights.

At Atlantic City (ESPN2), Tokunbo Olajide, New York, vs. Gary Jones, Washington, D.C., 10, junior middleweights; Michael Stewart, New Castle, Del., vs. Brad Jensen, Denver, 10, junior welterweights.

Aug. 10

At Marseille, France, Jean Marc Mormeck, France, vs. Pietro Aurino, Italy, 12, for Mormeck's WBA cruiserweight title.

Aug. 17

At the Aladdin, Las Vegas, (PPV), Laila Ali, Las Vegas, vs. Susie Taylor, 6, super middleweights; Arthur Williams, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, cruiserweights.

At TBA, (Showtime), Joe Calzaghe, England, vs. TBA, 12, super middleweights.

At Atlantic City (HBO), David Tua, Western Samoa, vs. Michael Moorer, Detroit, 10, heavyweights.

At Berlin, Germany, Thomas Ulrich, Germany, vs. Yawe Davis, England, 12, light heavyweights; Juan Carlos Gomez, Cuba, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights.

Aug. 18

At Temecula, Calif., (FSN), Steve Forbes, Las Vegas, vs. David Santos, Phoenix, 12, for Forbes' IBF junior lightweight title.

Aug. 23

At TBA, (Telefutra), Bobby Velardez, San Bernardino, Calif., vs. TBA, 10, super bantamweights.