Fight schedule

Thursday, Aug. 7, 2003 | 9:41 a.m.

Tonight

At Temecula, Calif., (FSN), Vassiliy Jirov, Scottsdale, Az., vs. Ernest Mateen, Brooklyn, N.Y., 10, cruiserweights; Lamont Pearson, Capitol Heights, Md., vs. Robbie Peden, Australia, 12, junior lightweights.

Friday

At Little Rock, Ark., (ESPN2), Jermain Taylor, Little Rock, vs. Freddy Cuevas, Chicago, 12, middleweights; Kofi Jantuah, Las Vegas, vs. Robert Kamya, West Palm Beach, Fla., 10, junior middleweights.

Saturday

At Miami, (Showtime), Acelino Freitas, Brazil, vs. Jorge Rodrigo Barrios, Argentina, 12, for Freitas' WBA junior lightweight title; Teddy Reid, Baltimore, vs. Elio Ortiz, Venezuela, 12, welterweights; Francisco Bojado, Los Angeles, vs. Lemuel Nelson, Pensacola, Fla., 10, junior welterweights; Terrance Cauthen, Trenton, N.J., vs. Ricky Quiles, Miami, 12, junior welterweights.

Sunday

At Tokyo, Japan, Oscar Larios, Mexico, vs. Kozo Ishii, Japan, 12, for Larios' WBC super bantamweight title.

Aug. 14

At Dover, Del., Andrew Golota, Chicago, vs. Brian Nix, Rochester, N.Y., 10, heavyweights; Tony Marshall, Guyana, vs. Shakir Ashanti, Greensboro, N.C., 8, junior middleweights.

Aug. 15

At the Cannery, North Las Vegas, TBA.

At Gardnerville, Nev. (ESPN2), Jesse Brinkley, Yerington, Nev., vs. Danny Perez, El Cajon, Calif., 10, middleweights. At Austin, Tx., (Telefutura), Jesus Chavez, Austin, vs. Sirimongkol Singmanussak, Thailand, 12, for Singmanussak's WBC junior lightweight title.

Aug. 16

At Uncasville, Conn., (HBO), Derrick Gainer, Pensacola, Fla., vs. Juan Manuel Marquez, Mexico, 12, for Gainer's WBA and Marquez's IBF featherweight titles; Mark Johnson, Washington, vs. Fernando Montiel, Mexico, 10, bantamweights.

At Nuremburg, Germany, Markus Beyer, Germany, vs. Danny Green, Australia, 12, for Beyer's WBC super middleweight title.

At Montreal, Canada, Otis Grant, Canada, vs. Dingaan Thobela, South Africa, 10, super middleweights.

Aug. 18

At Boise, Idaho, Ed Dalton, Emmett, Idaho, vs. Rocky Torres, Miami, 12, light heavyweights.

Aug. 21

At San Jose, Calif., Jose Navarro, Los Angeles, vs. Adonis Rivas, Nicaragua, 12, junior bantamweights.

Aug. 22

At the Reno Hilton, Reno,, David Defiagbon, Las Vegas, vs. Charles Hatcher, Columbus, Ohio, 10, heavyweights.

At Philadelphia, Miss., (ESPN2), Kasim Ouma vs. Carlos Bojorquez, 10, junior middleweights.

At Odessa, Texas, (Telefutura), Martin Castillo, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, junior lightweights.

Aug. 23

At Biloxi, Miss., (PPV), Laila Ali, Los Angeles, vs. Christy Martin, Orlando, Fla., 10, super middleweights.

At Hollywood, Fla., Ray Mercer, Atlantic City, N.J., vs. Mario Cawley, Cincinnati, 10, heavyweights; Michael Moorer, Detroit, vs. Rogerio Lobo, Brazil, 10, heavyweights; Tito Mendoza, Panama, vs. Tyler Hughes, Dallas, 10, super middleweights.

Aug. 29

At Reading, Pa., Kermit Cintron, Reading, vs. Jesus Valverde, Mexico, 10, welterweights.

At Tacoma, Wash., (ESPN2), Kenny Ellis, Seattle, vs. Kingsley Ikeke, Canada, 12, middleweights; Willie Stewart, Las Vegas, vs. James Lubwama, West Palm Beach, Fla., 10, super middleweights.

Aug. 30

At Munich, Germany, Wladimir Klitschko, Ukraine, vs. Fabio Moli, Argentina, 10, heavyweights.

At St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Frans Botha, South Africa, vs. George Linberger, Cleveland, 10, heavyweights.

Sept. 2

At Chester, W.Va., (ESPN2), TBA.

Sept. 3

At Sydney, Australia, Antwun Echols, Davenport, Iowa, vs. Anthony Mundine, Australia, 12, super middleweights.

Sept. 5

At San Juan, Puerto Rico, (Telefutura), TBA.

Sept. 9

At TBA, Audley Harrison, England, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights.

Sept. 12

At the Orleans, Las Vegas, (Telefutura), Humberto Soto, Mexico, vs. Luis Fuentes, Mexico, 10, featherweights.

At the MGM, Las Vegas, (ESPN2), Rolando Reyes, Oxnard, Calif., vs. TBA, 10, lightweights; Kelly Pavlik, Youngstown, Ohio, vs. TBA, 8, middleweights; Anthony Thompson, Philadelphia, vs. TBA, 8, welterweights.