Fight schedule

Thursday, Dec. 4, 2003 | 9:49 a.m.

Tonight

At Boston, Marcus Rhode, Oklahoma City, vs. Kevin McBride, Boston, 10, heavyweights.

Friday

At Phoenix, Telefutura), Jorge Paez, Mexico, vs. Scott McCracken, Aliquippa, Pa., 10, lightweights.

At Hollywood, Fla., Hector Camacho, Puerto Rico, vs. Craig Houk, Atlanta, 10, middleweights; Friday Ahunanya, Las Vegas, vs. Thomas Williams, Washington, D.C., 10, heavyweights.

Saturday

At New York, (HBO), Vitali Klitschko, Ukraine, vs. Kirk Johnson, Canada, 12, heavyweights; Joe Mesi, Buffalo, vs. Monte Barrett, New York, 10, heavyweights.

At Bayamon, Puerto Rico, (PPV), Miguel Cotto, Puerto Rico, vs. Carlos Maussa, Colombia, 12, junior welterweights; Eric Morel, Madison, Wis., vs. Lorenzo Parra, Venezuela, 12, for Morel's WBA flyweight title; Ivan Calderon, Puerto Rico, vs. Alex Sanchez, Puerto Rico, 12, junior flyweights.

At Tokyo, Yokthai Sith-Oar, Japan, vs. Manabu Kukushima, Japan, 10, junior bantamweights.

Dec. 11

At Los Angeles, Goyo Vargas, Mexico, vs. Mike Anchondo, LaPuente, Calif., 10, lightweights.

December 12

At the Edgewater, Laughlin, (ESPN2), Audley Harrison, England, vs. Brian Nix, New York, 10, heavyweights; Tokunbo Olajide, New York, vs. Larry Marks, Chicago, 10, junior welterweights.

At Phoenix, (Telefutura), Fernando Vargas, Oxnard, Calif., vs. Tony Marshall, Ghana, 10, junior middleweights.

At Worcester, Mass., Ray Oliveira, Salem, Mass., vs. TBA, 10, welterweights.

At Chicago, David Diaz, Chicago, vs. Louis Brown, Indianapolis, 10, junior welterweights.

Dec. 13

At Atlantic City, (PPV), Bernard Hopkins, Philadelphia, vs. William Joppy, Washington D.C., 12, for Hopkins' WBC, WBA and IBF middleweight titles; Ricardo Mayorga, Mexico, vs. Cory Spinks, St. Louis, for Mayorga's WBC and WBA and Spinks' IBF welterweight titles; John Ruiz, Las Vegas, vs. Hasim Rahman, Baltimore, 12, heavyweights; Zab Judah, New York, vs. Jaime Rangel, Colombia, 12, junior welterweights; Luis Perez, Nicaragua, vs. Felix Machado, Mexico, 12, for Perez's IBF junior bantamweight title; Wayne Braithwaite, Guyana, vs. Luis Pineda, Panama, 12, for Braithwaite's WBC cruiserweight title; Rosendo Alvarez, Mexico, vs. Victor Burgos, Mexico, for Alvarez's WBA and Burgos' IBF junior flyweight titles.

At Manchester, England, (Showtime), Ricky Hatton, England, vs. Ben Tackie, Ghana, 12, junior welterweights; Jeff Lacy, Tampa, Fla., vs. Donnell Wiggins, Covington, Tenn., 12, junior welterweights; Junior Witter, England, vs. Kelson Pinto, Brazil, 12, junior welterweights.

At Nuremberg, Germany, Sven Ottke, Germany, vs. Robin Reid, England, 12, for Ottke's WBA and IBF super middleweight titles.

Dec. 15

At Tokyo, Osamu Sato, Japan, vs. Daekyun Park, Korea, 10, super bantamweights.

Dec. 16

At Levanaois, France, Mayhar Monshipour, France, vs. Jairo Tagliafero, Venezuela, 12, for Monshipour's WBA super bantamweight title.

Dec. 20

At Kiel, Germany, Wladimir Klitschko, Ukraine, vs. Danell Nicholson, Chicago, 10, heavyweights; Felix Sturm, Germany, vs. Ruben Varon, 12, middleweights.

At Montreal, Canada, Eric Lucas, Canada, vs. Danny Green, Australia, 12, super middleweights.

Jan. 3

At Mashantucket, Conn., (Showtime), Acelino Freitas, Brazil, vs. Artur Grigorian, Germany, 12, lightweights; J.C. Candelo, Denver, vs. Kassim Ouma, West Palm Beach, Fla., 12, junior middleweights.

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

At Tokyo, Pongsaklek Wonjongkam, Thailand, vs. Masaki Nakanuma, Japan, 12, for Wonjongkam's WBC flyweight title.

Jan. 9

At Ledyard, Conn., (ESPN2), Jermain Taylor, Little Rock, Ark., vs. TBA, 10, middleweights.

Jan. 10

At Tokyo, Jose Antonio Aguirre, Mexico, vs. Eagle Akakura, Thailand, 12, for Aguirre's WBC strawweight title.

Jan. 19

At Sydney, Australia, Anthony Mundine, Australia, vs. Yoshimori Nishizawa, Japan, 12, super middleweights.

January 24

At Atlantic City, (HBO), Arturo Gatti, Canada, vs. Gianluca Branco, Italy, 12, junior welterweights.