Fight schedule

Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2003 | 9:42 a.m.

January 2

At Wilmington, Del., (Telefutura), Cesar Bazan, Mexico, vs. Louis Brown, Indianapolis, 10, junior welterweights.

January 3

At Mashantucket, Conn., (Showtime), Acelino Freitas, Brazil, vs. Artur Grigorian, Uzbekistan, 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.

January 9

At Uncasville, Conn., (ESPN2), Jermain Taylor, Little Rock, Ark., vs. Alex Rios, San Antonio, 10, middleweights; Nate Campbell, Jacksonville, vs. Daniel Attah, Nigeria, 12, junior lightweights.

At Laredo, Tx., (Telefutura), Manuel Gomez, Nueva Laredo, Tx., vs. Jesse Gonzalez, Fort Worth, 10, welterweights.

January 10

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

January 15

At Santa Ynez, Calif., (Showtime), Ishe Smith, Las Vegas, vs. Randall Bailey, Miami, 12, welterweights.

January 16

At Bloomington, Minn., (ESPN2), Diobelys Hurtado vs. Joe Hutchinson, 12, welterweights.

January 18

At Karlsruhe, Germany, Julio Gonzalez, Huntington Beach, Calif., vs. Zsolt Erdel, Hungary, 12, light heavyweights.

January 19

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

January 23

At Kansas City, Mo., (Telefutura), Martin Castillo, Mexico, vs. Rogelio Galicia, Philippines, 12, junior bantamweights.

January 24

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

January 30

At the Orleans, Las Vegas, TBA.

January 31

At Phoenix, (HBO), Antonio Margarito, Mexico, vs. Hercules Kyvelos, Canada, 12, welterweights; Rafael Marquez, Mexico, vs. Pete Frissina, Tarpon Springs, Fla., 12, for Marquez's IBF bantamweight title.

February 6

At Ledyard, Conn., Mark Johnson, Washington D.C., vs. TBA, 12, junior bantamweights.