Fight schedule

Thursday, Sept. 29, 2005 | 9:09 a.m.

National TV in parentheses

FRIDAY

At Fox Theatre, Atlanta, Alex Baba, Miami, vs. Fidencio Reyes, Garland, Texas, 12, for the vacant IBA Americas bantamweight title.

At Cache Creek Casino Resort, Brooks, Calif. (FSN), Glen Johnson, Miami, vs. George Jones, Paterson, N.J., 12, IBF light heavyweight title eliminator.

SATURDAY

At The St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, Fla. (PPV), Antonio Tarver, Tampa, Fla., vs. Roy Jones, Jr., Pensacola, Fla., 12, for Tarver's IBO light heavyweight title.

At Reno Events Center, Reno, Nev. (SHO), James Toney, Grand Rapids, Mich., vs. Dominick Guinn, Hot Springs, Ark., 12, for Toney's IBA heavyweight title; Chris Byrd, Flint, Mich., vs. DaVarryl Williamson, Washington, 12, for Byrd's IBF heavyweight title.

OCTOBER 6

At El Foro, Tijuana, Mexico, Luis Valdez, Mexico, vs. Omar Salado, Mexico, 12, for the vacant WBA Fedelatin super flyweight title.

OCTOBER 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; Carlos Alberto Hernandez, West Covina, Calif., vs. Bobby Pacquiao, Philippines, 12, super featherweights; Jorge Arce, Mexico, vs. Hussein Hussein, Australia, 12, flyweights.

OCTOBER 10

At Tokyo, Pongsaklek Wonjonkam, Thailand, vs. Daisuke Naito, Japan, 12, for the vacant WBC flyweight title.

OCTOBER 15

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

At Dusseldorf, Germany, Herman Ngoudjo, Canada, vs. Emanuel Augustus, Brownsville, Texas, 12, for Ngoudjo's NABF light welterweight title.

At The Speaking Rock Entertainment Center, El Paso, Texas, Fernando Beltran, Jr., Mexico, vs. Carlos Contreras, El Paso, Texas, 10, super bantamweights; Francisco Arce, Mexico, vs. Alejandro Moreno, Mexico, 10, flyweights.

OCTOBER 27

At TBA (HBO), Daniel Ponce De Leon, Mexico, vs. Sod Looknongyangtoy, Thailand, 12, for the vacant WBO super bantamweight title.

NOVEMBER 5

At Caesars Tahoe, Las Vegas (SHO), Rafael Marquez, Mexico, vs. Silence Mabuza, South Africa, 12, for Marquez's IBF bantamweight title; Jeff Lacy, Tampa, Fla., vs. Scott Pemberton, Fair Haven, Mass., 12, for Lacy's IBF/IBO super middleweight titles.

NOVEMBER 12

At Thomas and Mack Center, Las Vegas (PPV), Vitali Klitschko, Los Angeles, vs. Hasim Rahman, Baltimore, 12, for Klitschko's WBC heavyweight title.

DECEMBER 3

At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas (PPV), Jermain Taylor, Little Rock, Ark., vs. Bernard Hopkins, Philadelphia, 12, for the world middleweight title.

-- Associated Press