Fight schedule
Thursday, July 25, 2002 | 9:09 a.m.
Updated July 25, 2002
Tonight
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.
Friday
At the Orleans, Las Vegas, Armando Velardez, San Bernardino, Calif., vs. Paulino Avitia, Mexico, 12, junior middleweights.
At Lemoore, Calif., (Telefutra), Jorge Paez, Mexico, vs. Augustin Lorenzo, Mexico, 10, lightweights.
At Chester, W.Va., (ESPN2), DaVarryl Williamson, Washington, vs. Corey Sanders, Washington, 10, heavyweights.
Saturday
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), Dario Esalas, Colombia, vs. Lamar Murphy, Miami, 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.
Tuesday
At Concho, Okla., (ESPN2), Miguel Cotto, Puerto Rico, vs. Carlos Ramirez, 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.
At Ledyard, Conn., (ESPN), Michael Grant, Norristown, Pa., vs. Robert Davis, Akron, 10, heavyweights.
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; Fitz Vanderpool, Canada, vs. TBA, 10, junior middleweights.
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; James Toney, Ann Arbor, Mich., vs. Jason Robinson, Chicago, 10, cruiserweights.
Aug. 23
At TBA, (Telefutra), Bobby Velardez, San Bernardino, Calif., vs. Edel Ruiz, Mexico, 10, super bantamweights.
Aug. 24
At Atlantic City, (Showtime), Kermit Cintron vs. TBA, 10, welterweights.
At Carolina, Puerto Rico, (Showtime), Derrick Gainer, Pensacola, Fla., vs. Daneil Seda, Puerto Rico, 12, for Gainer's WBA featherweight title; Nelson Dieppa, Puerto Rico, vs. John A. Molina, Colombia, 12, junior flyweights.
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