Fight schedule

Thursday, Nov. 20, 2003 | 9:51 a.m.

Friday

At the Orleans, Las Vegas, Armando Velardez, San Bernardino, Calif., vs. Frankie Sanchez, Aurora, Col., 8, welterweights. At Fresno, Calif., (ESPN2), Juan Valenzuela, Mexico, vs. Ernie Zavala, Burbank, Calif., 10, junior welterweights.

At Imperial, Calif., (Telefutura), Eleazar Contreras, Bakersfield, Calif., vs. Omar Bernal, Mexico, 10, lightweights; Manuel Gomez, Mexico, vs. David Ojeda, Mexico, 10, welterweights.

Saturday

At Los Angeles, (PPV), Oscar Larios, Mexico, vs. Napapol Kiattisakchokchia, Thailand, 12, for Larios' WBC super bantamweight title; Javier Jauregui, Mexico, vs. Levander Johnson, Atlantic City, N.J., 12, for vacant IBF lightweight title; Jose Navarro, Los Angeles, vs. Reynaldo Hurtado, Colombia, 12, junior bantamweights.

At Houston, (Showtime), Rocky Juarez, Houston, vs. Hector Velazquez, Mexico, 10, featherweights; Francisco Bojado, Los Angeles, vs. Juan Carlos Rubio, Lakeside, Calif., 10, junior welterweights.

At Anaheim, Calif., Rolando Reyes, Oxnard, Calif., vs. John Brown, Atlantic City, N.J., 10, lightweights.

At Belfast, Ireland, Brian Magee, Ireland, vs. Hassine Cherifi, France, 10, super middleweights.

At Stateline, Derek Bryant, Philadelphia, vs. Jovo Pudar, Queens, N.Y., 10, heavyweights.

November 28

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

November 29

At Glasgow, Scotland, Manuel Medina, Mexico, vs. Scott Harrison, Scotland, 12, featherweights.

December 5

At Phoenix, (Telefutura), Jorge Paez, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, lightweights.

December 6

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.

December 11

At Los Angeles, Goyo Vargas, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, lightweights.

December 12

At the Edgewater, Laughlin, TBA.

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

December 13

At Atlantic City, N.J., (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, New York, 10, junior welterweights; Luis Perez, Nicaragua, vs. Felix Machado, Mexico, 12, for Perez's IBF junior bantamweight title; Wayne Braithwaite, Guyana, vs. TBA, 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, Cincinnati, vs. Donnell Wiggins, Covington, Tenn., 12, junior welterweights.

December 20

At Kiel, Germany, Wladimir Klitschko, Ukraine, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights; Felix Sturm, Germany, vs. TBA, 12, middleweights.

January 3

At TBA, (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.

January 10

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

January 24

At Atlantic City, (HBO), Arturo Gatti, Canada, vs. Gianluca Branco, Italy, 10, junior welterweights.

January 31

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

February 7

At Moscow, Russia, Kostya Tszyu, Australia, vs. Sharmba Mitchell, Washington D.C., 12, for Tszyu's WBC, WBA and IBF junior welterweight titles.

At TBA, (Showtime), James Toney, Ann Arbor, Mich., vs. Jameel McCline, Port Jefferson, N.J., 12, heavyweights.

February 21

At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, (HBO), Fernando Vargas, Oxnard, Calif., vs. Javier Castillejo, Spain, 10, junior middleweights.