Fight schedule

Thursday, May 2, 2002 | 9:56 a.m.

Updated May 2, 2002

Friday

At the Orleans, Las Vegas, (Telefutra), Ernesto Zepeda, Mexico, vs. James Crayton, Las Vegas, 10, lightweights; Miguel Cotto, Puerto Rico, vs. Juan Angel Macias, Mexico, 10, junior welterweights.

At Oroville, Calif., Cosme Rivera, Los Angeles, vs. Wilfredo Negron, Puerto Rico, 12, 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.

At Schwerin, Poland, Luan Krasniqi, Germany, vs. Przemyslaw Saleta, Poland, 12, heavyweights; Juan Carlos Gomez, Germany, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights. May 17

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

At Honolulu, Brian Viloria, Honolulu, vs. TBA, 8, flyweights.

At Corpus Christi, Texas, (Telefutra), Jorge Paez, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, lightweights. May 18

At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, (Showtime), Kostya Tszyu, Australia, vs. Ben Tackie, Ghana, 12, for Tszyu's WBC, WBA and IBF junior welterweight titles; Hercules Kyvelos, Canada, vs. Oba Carr, Detroit, 10, welterweights.

At Uncasville, Conn., (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 19

At Choctaw, Miss., (FSN), Tim Witherspoon, New York, Abdul Abdin, New York, 10, heavyweights. May 23

At Paris, France, Bruno Girard, France, vs. Thomas Hansvoll, Norway, 12, light heavyweights. 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.

At Pyongyang, North Korea, Masamori Tokuyama, Japan, vs. Erick Lopez, Mexico, 12, for Tokuyama's WBC junior bantamweight title. May 31

At Portland, Ore., (ESPN2), James Toney, Ann Arbor, Mich., vs. Jason Robinson, Chicago, 10, cruiserweights.

At TBA, Romania, (ESPN2), Leonard Dorin, Canada, vs. Raul Balbi, Argentina, 12, for Dorin's WBA lightweight title. June 1

At Atlantic City, N.J., (HBO), Evander Holyfield, Atlanta, vs. Hasim Rahman, Baltimore, 10, heavyweights.

At Nuremberg, Germany, Sven Ottke, Germany, vs. Thomas Tate, Houston, 12, for Ottke's IBF super middleweight title; Timo Hoffman, Germany, vs. Ross Puritty, Oklahoma City, 10, heavyweights.

At Manchester, England, Ricky Hatton, England, vs. Eamon Magee, Ireland, 10, junior welterweights.

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

At the Stratosphere, Las Vegas, Michael Grant, New York, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights. June 7

At Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Attila Levin, Sweden, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights.

At Southaven, Miss., Laila Ali, Las Vegas, vs. Suzy Taylor, 10, super middleweights; Arthur Williams, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, cruiserweights. 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. June 29

At TBA, (HBO), Wladimir Klitschko, Ukraine, vs. Ray Mercer, New York, 12, heavyweights.