Fight schedule -- January 7, 1999

Tonight

At Tunica, Miss., (USSB), Danell Nicholson, Chicago, vs. Levi Billups, San Diego, 10, heavyweights; Derrick Jeffreson, Detroit, vs. Marcellus Brown, Benton Harbor, Mich., 10, heavyweights.

Friday

At Ledyard, Conn., (ESPN2), Vinny Pazienza, Providence, vs. Undra White, St. Louis, 10, super middleweights; Ray Oliviera, New Bedford, Mass., vs. Fitz Vanderpool, Trindad, 10, welterweights.

Saturday

At Pensacola, Fla., (HBO), Roy Jones Jr., Pensacola, vs. Rick Frazier, New York, 12, for Jones' WBA and WBC light heavyweight titles; Shane Mosley, Pomona, Calif., vs. Golden Johnson, Wichita Falls, Tx., 12, for Mosley's IBF lightweight title; Arthur Williams, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, cruiserweights; Harold Warren, Philadelphia, vs. Derrick Gainer, Fort Worth, 12, for Warren's USBA junior lightweight title.

At the New Frontier, (Fox), Las Vegas, Ramon Garbey, Cuba, vs. Leeonzer Barber, Detroit, 10, cruiserweights; Ernesto Martinez, Mexico, vs. Carlos Hernandez, Los Angeles, 10, lightweights; Augie Sanchez, Las Vegas, vs. Carlos Cantu, Mexico, 6, featherweights.

Sunday

At Seoul, Korea, Cho In-Joo, Korea, vs. Joel Luna Zarate, Mexico, 12, for In-Joo's WBC junior bantamweight title.

January 15

At The Orleans, Las Vegas, (ESPN2), Thomas Tate, Philadelphia, vs. Merqui Sosa, Dominican Republic, 12, for Tate's NABF super middleweight title; Angel Vazquez, Hartford, vs. Carlos Rios, Argentina, 10, featherweights; Chris Linson, Santa Fe, N.M., vs. Stanley Longstreet, Detroit, 10, lightweights.

January 16

At MGM, Las Vegas, (PPV), Mike Tyson, Scottsdale, Az., vs. Frans Botha, South Africa, 10, heavyweights; Robert Garcia, Los Angeles, vs. John Molina, Puerto Rico, 12, for Garcia's IBF junior lightweight title; Goyo Vargas, Mexico, vs. Ben Tackie, Ghana, 12, lightweights; Zab Judah, New York, vs. Wilfredo Negron, Puerto Rico, 12, for Judah's USBA junior welterweight title.

At Munich, Germany, Torsten May, Germany, vs. Adolpho Washington, Chicago, 10, cruiserweights.

January 20

At Italy, Anatoly Alexandrov, Kazakhstan, vs. Stefano Zoff, Italy, 12, junior lightweights.

January 21

At Miami, Oleg Maskaev, Russia, vs. Michael Rush, Kansas City, 10, heavyweights.

January 22

At Chicago, (ESPN2), Omar Sheika, Catskill, N.Y., vs. Anwar Oshana, Chicago, 10, super middleweights; Rocky Martinez, Chicago, vs. Paul Spadafora, Pittsburgh, 10, lightweights.

January 23

At Shreveport, La., Cliff Couser, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights.

At Tokyo, Jess Maca, Philippines, vs. Shin Yamato, Japan, 12, bantamweights.

At France, Ali Ennebati, France, vs. Erland Betare, France, 12, middleweights.

At San Severo, Italy, Mzukisi Sikali, South Africa, vs. Luigi Castiglione, Italy, 12, junior bantamweights.

January 25

At Versailles, France, Jean Baptiste Mendy, France, vs. Alberto Sicurella, Argentina, 12, for Mendy's WBA lightweight title.

At Anaheim, Rodney Jones, Campo, Calif., vs. James Lerma, Honolulu, 12, junior middleweights.

January 29

At LaCoruna, Spain, (ESPN2), Keith Mullings, Brooklyn, vs. Javier Castillejo, Spain, 12, for Mullings' WBC junior middleweight title.

At Ledyard, Conn., (ESPN2), Dana Rosenblatt, Malden, Mass., vs. Aaron Davis, Bronx, 10, middleweights; Don Diego Poeder, Netherlands, vs. Sajad Abdullah Aziz, Detroit, 10, cruiserweights.

January 30

At Atlantic City, (HBO), Michael Grant, Norristown, Pa., vs. Ahmed Abdin, Houston, 12, for vacant NABF heavyweight title; Andrew Golota, Poland, vs. Jimmy Thunder, Las Vegas, 10, heavyweights.

At Cottbus, Germany, Freeman Barr, Naples, Fla., vs. Bert Schenk, Germany, 12, middleweights; Thomas Ulrich, Germany, vs. Ali Saidi, Germany, 12, light heavyweights.

At Telford, England, Richie Woodhall, England, vs. Vincenzo Nardiello, France, 12, for Woodhall's WBC super middleweight title.

February 6

At TBA, (Showtime), Bernard Hopkins, Philadelphia, vs. Robert Allen, New Orleans, 12, for Hopkins' IBF middleweight title; William Joppy, Washington, vs. Darren Obah, Australia, 12, for Joppy's WBA middleweight title; Hassine Cherifi, France, vs. Keith Holmes, Washington, 12, for Cherifi's WBC middleweight title.

At Tokyo, Kengo Nagashima, Japan, vs. Yuji Watanabe, Japan, 12, junior lightweights.

At Hammanskrall, South Africa, Vuyani Bungu, South Africa, vs. Victor Llerena, South Africa, 12, for Bungu's IBF super bantamweight title.

February 12

At The Orleans, Las Vegas, (ESPN2), Stevie Johnston, Denver, vs. Mauro Lucero, Mexico, 10, lightweights; Tony Marshall, Albany, vs. TBA, 10, junior middleweights; Lamon Brewster, Los Angeles, vs. TBA, 8, heavyweights; Bronco McKart, Monroe, Mich., vs. TBA, 8, junior middleweights.

February 13

At Thomas & Mack Center, (PPV), Las Vegas, Oscar De La Hoya, East Los Angeles, vs. Ike Quartey, Ghana, 12, for De La Hoya's WBC welterweight title; Oba Carr, Detroit, vs. Frankie Randall, Las Vegas, 10, welterweights; Erik Morales, Mexico, vs. Angel Chacon, Puerto Rico, 12, for Morales' WBC super bantamweight title; Butterbean Esch, Jasper, Ala., vs. TBA, 4, heavyweights.

At London, Herbie Hide, England, vs. Orlin Norris, San Diego, 12, heavyweights; Joe Calzaghe, England, vs. Robin Reid, England, 12, super middleweights.

At Stuttgart, Germany, Artur Grigorian, Germany, vs. TBA, 12, lightweights; Vladimir Klitschko, Germany, vs. TBA, 12, heavyweights.

February 18

At Tokyo, Takanori Hatakeyama, Japan, vs. Saul Duran, Mexico, 12, for Hatakeyama's WBA junior lightweight title.

February 20

At Atlantic City, (HBO), Pernell Whitaker, Norfolk, Va., vs. Felix Trinidad, Puerto Rico, 12, for Trinidad's IBF welterweight title.

At TBA, (Univision), Jorge Paez, Mexico, vs. TBA, 12, lightweights; Daniel Santos, Puerto Rico, vs. TBA, 8, welterweights.

At Hamburg, Germany, Juan Carlos Gomez, Germany, vs. Marcelo Dominguez, Argentina, 12, for Gomez's WBC cruiserweight title.

February 26

At The Orleans, Las Vegas, TBA.

February 27

At Berlin, Sven Ottke, Germany, vs. TBA, 12, for Ottke's IBF junior middleweight title.

At London, Colin Dunne, England, vs. Phillip Holiday, South Africa, 12, lightweights.

March 13

At New York, (PPV), Evander Holyfield, Atlanta, vs. Lennox Lewis, England, 12, for Holyfield's WBA and IBF heavyweight titles and Lewis' WBA heavyweight title.

March 19

At The Orleans, Las Vegas, TBA.

March 27

At TBA, (Showtime), Sharmba Mitchell, Washington, vs. TBA, 12, for Mitchell's WBA junior welterweight title; Frankie Liles, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 12, for Liles' WBA super middleweight title.

April 17

At TBA, (Showtime), Johnny Tapia, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 12, for Tapia's WBA bantamweight title; Ricardo Lopez, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, junior flyweights.

May 22

At TBA, (Showtime), Tim Austin, Cincinnati, vs. TBA, 12, for Austin's IBF bantamweight title.

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