Fight schedule

Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2005 | 9:02 a.m.

Today

At Sydney Entertainment Center, Sydney, Australia: Vic Darchinyan, Australia, vs. Jair Jiminez, Colombia, 12, for Darchinyan's IBF and IBO flyweight titles.

Thursday

At Manhattan Center, New York (FSN): Dmitriy Salita, Brooklyn, N.Y., vs. Shawn Gallegos, 10, for the vacant NABA welterweight championship.

Friday

At Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Hollywood, Fla. (PPV): O'Neil Bell, vs. Sebastian Rothmann, 12, for Bell's IBF cruiserweight title; Ray Mercer, Jacksonville, Fla., vs. Shannon Briggs, West Orange, N.J., 10, heavyweights; Jameel McCline, Clifton, N.J., vs. Steve Pannell, Salem, Va., 10, heavyweights; Juan Urango, Spain, vs. Andre Eason, Brooklyn, N.Y., 12, for the WBC Latin American junior welterweight title.

At Westchester County Center, White Plains, N.Y.: Joan Guzman, Dominican Republic, vs. Terdsak Jandaeng, Thailand, 10, super featherweights.

At The Golden Acorn Casino, Campo, Calif.: Willie Stewart, Las Vegas, vs. John Roman William, Chicago, 10, super middleweights.

Saturday

At Mohegan Sun Casino, Uncasville, Conn.: Eric Harding, West Hartford, Conn., vs. Danial Judah, Brooklyn, N.Y., 12, for Harding's USBA light heavyweight title.

Aug. 31

At Thailand: Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym, Thailand, vs. Ricardo Cordoba, Panama, 12, for the vacant WBA bantamweight title.

Sept. 3

At Berlin: Markus Beyer, Germany, vs. Omar Sheika, Paterson, N.J., 12, for Beyer's WBC super middleweight title; Oktay Urkal, Germany, vs. Thomas Damgaard, Denmark, 12, for Urkal's EBU welterweight title.

At Norwich, England: Jonathan Thaxton, Britain, vs. Laszlo Bognar, Hungary, 12, for Thaxton's WBC and Bognar's IBC lightweight titles.

At Gund Arena, Cleveland (SHO): Daniel Santos, Puerto Rico, vs. Jose Antonio Rivera, Worcester, Mass., 12, for Santos' WBO light middleweight title; Owen Beck, Nashville, Tenn., vs. Sergei Liakhovich, Phoenix, 10, heavyweights.

Sept. 4

At South Yorkshire, England: Clinton Woods, Britain, vs. Julio Cesar Gonzalez, Huntington Beach, Cailf., 12, for Woods' IBF light heavyweight title.

Sept. 10

At Great Plaza, Philadelphia: Terrence Lewis, Philadelphia, vs. Maurice Wheeler, Philadelphia, 12, for Lewis' USBA heavyweight title.

At Staples Center, Los Angeles (HBO): Eric Ortiz, Mexico, vs. Brian Viloria, Waipahu, Hawaii, 12, WBC light flyweight title.

Sept. 16

At The Arena at Gwinnett Center, Duluth, Ga.: Sultan Ibragimov, Miami, vs. Friday Ahunanya, Las Vegas, 12, for Ibragimov's WBO Asia/Pacific heavyweight title; Ebo Elder, Newnan, Ga., vs. Prawet Singwangcha, Thailand, 12, for the WBA lightweight title elimination bout; Fernando Angulo, Venezuela, vs. Luis Arceo, Mexico, 12, for Angulo's WBA Fedelatin lightweight title; Merhav Mohar, Brooklyn, N.Y. Xavier Tolliver, Arapahoe, N.C., 10, for the vacant WBC Fecarbox welterweight title.

Sept. 17

At MGM Grand, Las Vegas (PPV): Marco Antonio Barrera, Mexico, vs. Robbie Peden, Australia, 12, for Barrera's WBC and Peden's IBF super featherweight titles; Leavander Johnson, Atlantic City, N.J., vs. Jesus Chavez, Mexico, 12, for Johnson's IBF lightweight title.

Sept. 22

At Tokyo: Lorenzo Parra, Venezuela, vs. Takefumi Sakata, Japan, 12, for Parra's WBA flyweight title.

Sept. 24

At Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, N.J. (HBO): Miguel Angel Cotto, Puerto Rico, vs. Gianluca Branco, Italy, 12, for Cotto's WBO light welterweight title.

Oct. 1

At Tampa, Fla. (PPV): Antonio Tarver, Tampa, Fla., vs. Roy Jones, Jr., Pensacola, Fla., 12, for Tarver's IBO light heavyweight title.

At TBA (SHO): James Toney, Grand Rapids, Mich., vs. Dominick Guinn, Hot Springs, Ariz., 12, for Toney's IBA heavyweight title.

Oct. 8

At Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas (SHO): Diego Corrales, Las Vegas, vs. Jose Luis Castillo, Mexico, 12, for Corrales' WBC and WBO lightweight titles; Jesus Chavez, Mexico, vs. Carlos Alberto Hernandez, West Covina, Calif., 12, WBC super featherweight eliminator.

Oct. 15

At Tokyo: Wladimir Sidorenko, Germany, vs. Manabu Fukushima, Japan, 12, for Sidorenko's WBA bantamweight title.