Fight schedule

Thursday, Jan. 16, 2003 | 9:02 a.m.

Updated Jan. 16, 2003

Thursday

At Los Angeles, (HBO), Oscar Larios, Mexico, vs. Marcos Licona, Mexico, 10, for Larios' WBC super bantamweight title; Carlos Madrigal, Mexico, vs. Jose Navarro, Mexico, 12, junior bantamweights.

Friday

At Memphis, Tenn., Thomas Hearns, Detroit, vs. Thomas Reid, Jackson, Tenn., 10, cruiserweights.

At Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, (Telefutra), Saul Duran, Mexico, vs. Wilfredo Negron, Puerto Rico, 10, junior welterweights.

Saturday

At Melbourne, Australia, (Showtime), Kostya Tszyu, Australia, vs. James Leija, San Antonio, Texas, 12, for Tszyu's WBC, WBA and IBF junior welterweight titles; Mohammad Abdulaev, Las Vegas, vs. Philip Holiday, South Africa, 12, welterweights.

At Essen, Germany, Artur Grigorian, Germany, vs. Matt Zegan, Poland, 12, lightweights; Michel Trabant, Germany, vs. Frederic Klose, France, 12, welterweights.

At Preston, England, Bobby Vanzie, England, vs. Yuri Romanov, Ukraine, 12, lightweights.

Jan. 24

At the Orleans, Las Vegas, Jairo Ramirez, San Diego, vs. Aaron Steadman, Denver, 8, junior welterweights.

At Philadelphia, Anthony Thompson, Philadelphia, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights; Michael Grant, Norristown, Pa., vs. Carlton Johnson, Pittsburgh, 10, heavyweights.

At St. Paul, Minn., Matt Vanda, St. Paul, vs. Homer Gibbons, Atlanta, 10, junior middleweights.

At City of Commerce, Calif., (Telefutra), Julio Gonzalez, Huntington Beach, Calif., vs. Glencoffe Johnson, Miami, 10, light heavyweights.

Jan. 25

At Temecula, Calif., (HBO), Vernon Forrest, Atlanta, vs. Ricardo Mayorga, Nicaragua, for Forrest's WBC welterweight title; Joel Casamayor, Miami, vs. Nate Campbell, Jacksonville, Fla., 10, junior lightweights.

At Atlantic City, (Showtime), Sharmba Mitchell, Washington D.C., vs. Carlos Vilches, Argentina, 10, junior welterweights; Diego Corrales, Sacramento, vs. Freddy Cruz, Dominican Republic, 10, junior welterweights.

Jan. 28

At London, England, Howard Eastman, England, vs. Erland Betare, France, 12, middleweights.

Jan. 30

At Portland, Ore., Jeremy Williams, Long Beach, Calif., vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights.

At Oakland, Calif., Hector Camacho Jr., Miami, vs. Sebastian Valdez, Mexico, 10, junior welterweights.

Jan. 31

At Atlantic City, N.J., (ESPN2), Charles Brewer, Philadelphia, vs. Etianne Whitaker, Warren, Ohio, 10, super middleweights; Miguel Figueroa, Camden, N.J., vs. Scott DePompe, West Milford, N.J., 10, junior welterweights.

Feb. 1

At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, (PPV), Juan Manuel Marquez, Mexico, vs. Manuel Medina, Mexico, 12, for vacant IBF featherweight title; Carlos Hernandez, Bellflower, Calif., vs. David Santos, St. Petersburg, Fla., 12, for vacant IBF junior lightweight title; Miguel Cotto, Puerto Rico, vs. Cesar Bazan, Mexico, 12, junior welterweights.

At Ledyard, Conn., (Showtime), Rocky Juarez, Houston, vs. Jason Pires, New Bedford, Mass., 10, featherweights; Francisco Bojado, Mexico, vs. Frankie Santos, Puerto Rico, 10, junior welterweights; Juan Diaz, Houston, vs. John Bailey, Weirto, W. Va., 10, lightweights.

At Chemnitz, Germany, Danilo Haussler, Germany, vs. Glenn Catley, England, 12, super middleweights; Oktay Urkal, Turkey, vs. TBA, 12, junior welterweights.

Feb. 7

At the Edgewater, Laughlin, TBA.

At San Jose, Calif., (Telefutra), Jorge Paez, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, lightweights.

Feb. 8

At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, (HBO), Shane Mosley, Pomona, Calif., vs. Raul Marquez, Houston, 10, junior middleweights; Antonio Margarito, Mexico, vs. Andrew Lewis, Ghana, 10, welterweights.

Feb. 14

At Louisville, Ky., (ESPN2), Laila Ali, Las Vegas, vs. Mary Ann Almager, Albuquerque, 10, super middleweights; Chris Smith vs. Sam Garr, 12, welterweights.

At Reading, Pa., Kermit Cintron, Puerto Rico, vs. Frankie Sanchez, Los Angeles, 10, welterweights.

Feb. 15

At Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, (HBO), Tim Austin, Cincinnati, vs. Rafael Marquez, Mexico, 12, for Austin's IBF bantamweight title; Jose Victor Burgos, Mexico, vs. Alex Sanchez, Mexico, 12, for vacant IBF junior flyweight title.

At the Flamingo, Laughlin, Ray Austin, Cleveland, vs. Zuri Lawrence, Wappinger Falls, N.Y., 10, heavyweights.

Feb. 21

At Tucson, Ariz., (Telefutra), Antonio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., vs. TBA, 10, junior welterweights.

Feb. 22

At Memphis, Tenn., (Showtime), Mike Tyson, Catskills, N.Y., vs. Cliff Etienne, Baton Rouge, La., 10, heavyweights.

March 1

At the Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, (HBO), John Ruiz, Las Vegas, vs. Roy Jones Jr., Pensacola, Fla., 12, for Ruiz's WBA heavyweight title.

At Berlin, Germany, Sven Ottke, Germany, vs. Byron Mitchell, Washington, 12, for Ottke's IBF and Mitchell's WBA super middleweight titles.

March 7

At Montreal, Canada, (ESPN2), Leonard Dorin, Canada, vs. Miguel Callist, Panama, 12, for Dorin's WBA lightweight title.

March 8

At TBA, Germany, Wladimir Klitschko, Germany, vs. Danny Williams, England, 12, heavyweights.