Wednesday, March 19, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.
National TV in parentheses
March 21
At Trump Taj Mahal, Atlantic City, N.J. (HBO), Roy Jones Jr., Pensacola, Fla., vs. Montell Griffin, Chicago, 12, for Jones' WBC light heavyweight title.
March 22
At the Memorial Coliseum, Corpus Christi, Texas (PPV), Azumah Nelson, Ghana, vs. Genaro Hernandez, Los Angeles, 12, for Nelson's WBC super featherweight title; Michael Carbajal, Phoenix, vs. Scotty Olson, Canada, 12, for the vacant IBA light flyweight title; Jesse James Leija, San Antonio, vs. Joel Perez, Alice, Texas, 12, for the vacant NABF lightweight title.
At Wemberley Stadium, South Africa, Cassius Baloyi, South Africa, vs. Anton Gilmore, South Africa, 12, for Baloyi's WBU super bantamweight title; Dingaan Thobela, South Africa, vs. Willy Wise, Westbury, N.Y., 10, junior middleweights.
March 25
At Oxnard (Calif.) Civic Auditorium (USA), Derrell Coley, Capitol Heights, Md., vs. Kip Diggs, Hyanis, Mass., 12, for the vacant NABF welterweight title; Jose Luis Lopez, Mexico, vs. Jorge Vaca, Mexico, 10, welterweights.
March 28
At Boston, William Guthrie, Wilmington, Del., vs. Alex Umarov, Kazakhstan, 10, light heavyweights; Todd Foster, Missoula, Mont., vs. Mike Culbert, Brockton, Mass., 10, junior middleweights.
At Irvine Marriott, Irvine, Calif., Ricardo Fuentes, Azusa, Calif., vs. Sergio Macias, North Hollywood, Calif., 10, featherweights.
March 29
At the Las Vegas Hilton (Showtime), Michael Moorer, Detroit, vs. Vaughn Bean, Chicago, 12, for Moorer's IBF heavyweight title; Julio Cesar Chavez, Mexico, vs. Tony Martin, Phildelphia, 10, super lightweights; Alex Sanchez, Puerto Rico, vs. Victor Burgos, Mexico, 12, for Sanchez' WBO mini-flyweight title; Laurent Boudouani, France, vs. Carl Daniels, St. Louis, 12, for Boudouani's WBA junior middleweight title.
At Win-River Casino, Redding, Calif., Tommy Hearns, Detroit, vs. Salvador Maciel, Mexico, 10, cruiserweight.
March 30
At Mohegan Sun Casino, Uncasville, Conn. (CBS), James "Buster" Douglas, Columbus, Ohio, vs. Brian Scott, Kansas City, 10, heavyweights.
April 3
At Couer D'Alene Tribal Bingo Casino, Worley, Idaho, Terrence Lewis, Philadelphia, vs. Levi Billups, San Diego, 10, heavyweights; Jesse Ferguson, Knightdale, N.C., vs. Thomas Williams, Washington, 10, heavyweights.
April 4
At The Orleans, Las Vegas (Telemundo), Erik Morales, Mexico, vs. Javier Lucas, Mexico, 10, super bantamweights; Diego Corrales, Phoenix, vs. Steve Quinonez, Desert Hot Springs, Calif., 12, for the vacant IBA continental junior lightweight title.
April 5
At Bally's Park Place, Atlantic City, N.J. (CBS), David Tua, New Zealand, vs. Oleg Maskaev, Brooklyn, N.Y., 12, for Tua's WBC International heavyweight title.
At the Carousel Hotel and Casino, South Africa, Vuyani Bungu, South Africa, vs. Kennedy McKinney, Memphis, Tenn., 12, for Bungu's IBF junior featherweight title.
April 6
At Jaffa Mosque, Altoona, Pa. (ESPN), Kenny Sigurani, Youngstown, Ohio, vs. Meldrick Taylor, Philadelphia, 12, for Sigurani's WBF welterweight title.
April 7
At Arrowhead Pond, Anaheim, Calif., Carlos Hernandez, Bellflower, Calif., vs. Miguel Arrozal, Philippines, 10, junior lightweights; Cecilio Epino, Montebello, Calif., vs. Miguel Granados, Mexico, 10, super flyweights.
April 8
At Biloxi Grand Casino, Biloxi, Miss., Obed Sullivan, San Diego, vs. Hasim Rahman, Baltimore, 12, for the IBF Intercontinental heavyweight title; Ahmad Abdin, Syria, vs. Larry Donald, Cincinnati, 12, for the WBC Continental Americas heavyweight title.
April 9
At Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas (DIRECTV), Donald Curry, Fort Worth, Texas, vs. Emmett Linton, Tacoma, Wash., 12, for the vacant IBA junior middleweight title.
At Inland Exposition Center, Westmont, Ill., Bruce Rumbolz, Sterling, Ill., vs. Anwar Oshana, Chicago, 12, for the vacant IBF super middleweight title.
April 12
At Caesars Palace, Las Vegas (PPV), Pernell Whitaker, Norfolk, Va., vs. Oscar De La Hoya, East Los Angeles, Calif., 12, for Whitaker's WBC welterweight title; Paula Ayala, Fort Worth, Texas, vs. Nestor Lopez, Mexico, 12, for Ayala's NABF bantamweight title; Alfonso Sanchez, Mexico, vs. Micky Ward, Lowell, Mass., 10, super lightweights.
At Tropicana Hotel-Casino, Las Vegas (ABC), Raul Marquez, Houston, vs. Anthony Stephens, Metarie, La., 12, for the vacant IBF middleweight title.
April 19
At Arena Oberhausen, Germany, Virgil Hill, Williston, N.D., vs. Darius Michalczewski, Poland, 12, for the IBF and WBA light heavyweight titles.
April 26
At Atlantic City (N.J.) Convention Center (HBO), George Foreman, Houston, vs. Lou Savarese, New York, 12, for Foreman's WBU heavyeight title.
April 29
At Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Joseph Kiwanuka, Las Vegas, vs. Antoine Byrd, Los Angeles, 12, for Kiwanuka's NABF super middleweight title; Angel Vazquez, Hartford, Conn., vs. Darryl Pinckney, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 10, featherweights.
May 3
At MGM Grand, Las Vegas (PPV), Evander Holyfield, Atlanta, vs. Mike Tyson, Southington Township, Ohio, 12, for Holyfield's WBA heavyweight title.
At Bynex Arena, Manchester, England, Naseem Hamed, Britain, vs. Billy Hardy, Britain, 12, for Hamed's IBF and WBO featherweight titles; Ronald "Winky" Wright, St. Petersburg, Fla., vs. Steve Foster, Britain, vs. Wright's WBO light middleweight title.
May 14
At Foxwoods Resort and Casino, Ledyard, Conn. (DIRECTV), James Toney, Ann Arbor, Mich., vs. Drake Thadzi, Boston, 12, for the vacant IBO light heavyweight title.
May 16
At Madison Square Garden (HBO), New York, Andrew Golata, Chicago vs. Ray Mercer, East Orange, N.J., 10, heavyweights.
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