Fight schedule

Thursday

At Tacoma, Wash., (USSB), Alexander Zolkin, Russia, vs. Willie Williams, East Point, Ga., 12, heavyweights; Boris Powell, St. Louis, vs. Art Pendergrass, Ft. Lauderdale, 10, heavyweights.

Friday

At All-American SportPark, Las Vegas, (ESPN2), Antonio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., vs. Marlon Thomas, Detroit, 12, junior welterweights; Daniel Santos, Puerto Rico, vs. Leonard Townsend, Chicago, 10, welterweights.

Saturday

At the Las Vegas Hilton, Las Vegas, (PPV), Erik Morales, Mexico, vs. Juan Carlos Ramirez, Mexico, 12, for Morales' WBC super bantamweight title; Nestor Garza, Mexico, vs. Carlos Barreto, Venezuela, 12, for Garza's WBA super bantamweight championship; Jorge Paez, Mexico, vs. Augie Sanchez, Las Vegas, 10, featherweights; Kevin Kelley, Las Vegas, vs. Enrique Jupiter, Mexico, 10, featherweights.

At the Cal-Neva, Reno, Roger Mayweather, Las Vegas, vs. Francisco Mendez, Mexico, 10, welterweights.

At Philadelphia, Miss., Chris Byrd, Flint, vs. John Sargent, Chicago, 10, heavyweights.

At Berlin, Germany, Sven Ottke, Germany, vs. Gabriel Hernandez, Mexico, 12, for Ottke's IBF super middleweight title; Norbert Nieroba, Sweden, vs. Fighting Nordin, Denmark, 12, super middleweights.

At Miami, (Telemundo), Michael Carbajal, Phoenix, vs. Oscar Andrade, Mexico, 10, junior flyweights; Hector Camacho Jr., Puerto Rico, vs. Eduardo Perez, Mexico, 10, junior welterweights.

At Grande-Synthe, France, David Guerault, France, vs. Jason Booth, England, 12, flyweights.

Sunday

At Minot, N.D., (FSN), Michael Nunn, Davenport, Iowa, vs. William Guthrie, St. Louis, 10, light heavyweights; Virgil Hill, Bismarck, N.D., vs. Glen Thomas, Louisville, 10, cruiserweights; Al Williams, Las Vegas, vs. Fres Oquendo, Chicago, 8, heavyweights.

At Madrid, Spain, Javier Castillejo, Spain, vs. Humberto Aranda, Costa Rica, 12, for Castillejo's WBC junior middleweight title.

Monday

At Inglewood, Calif., Juan Manuel Marquez, Mexico, vs. Wilfredo Vargas, Puerto Rico, 12, featherweights; Rafael Marquez, Mexico, vs. Angel Almena, Puerto Rico, 10, bantamweights.

May 14

At Pikesville, Md., (ESPN2), Omar Sheika, Patterson, N.J., vs. Esteban Cervantes, Stockton, Calif., 10, super middleweights.

May 15

At El Paso, (Univision), Luisito Espinosa, Philippines, vs. Cesar Soto, Mexico, 12, for Espinosa's WBC featherweight title; Hector Velasquez, Mexico, vs. Max Gomez, Denver, 8, featherweights.

At TBA, Kostya Tszyu, Australia, vs. Miguel Angel Gonzalez, Mexico, 12, for Tszyus's WBC junior welterweight title.

At the Tropicana, Las Vegas, Hector Quiroz, Los Angeles, vs. Cosme Rivera, Mexico, 12, junior welterweights; Tito Mendoza, Mexico, vs. Alfred Ankamah, Los Angeles, 12, junior middleweights.

At Sheffield, England, Johnny Nelson, England, vs. Bruce Scott, England, 12, cruiserweights.

At Miami, (Showtime), Henry Akinwande, Fort Lauderdale, vs. Najee Shaeed, Bridgewater, Mass. 10, heavyweights; Tim Austin, Cincinnati, vs. Steve Dotse, Ghana, 12, for Austin's IBF bantamweight title.

At Bangkok, Thailand, Veerapol Nakornluang, Thailand, vs. Mauro Blanc, Uruguay, 12, for Nakornluang's WBC bantamweight title.

May 20

At Robinsonville, Miss., Oleg Maskaev, Kazakstan, vs. Shane Sutcliffe, Canada, 10, heavyweights.

May 21

At Ledyard, Conn., (ESPN2), Dana Rosenblatt, Malden, Mass., vs. Lloyd Bryan, Jamaica, 10, middleweights.

At The Orleans, Las Vegas, (ESPN2), James Crayton, Las Vegas, vs. John Palaki, Seattle, 12, lightweights.

At San Rafael, Calif., Paul Nave, San Francisco, vs. Livingstone Bramble, Las Vegas, 10, welterweights.

May 22

At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, (HBO), Oscar De La Hoya, Big Bear, Calif., vs. Oba Carr, Detroit, 12, for De La Hoya's WBC welterweight title; Floyd Mayweather, Las Vegas, vs. Goyo Vargas, Mexico, 12, for Mayweather's WBC junior lightweight title; Nicolas Cervera, Colombia, vs. TBA, 10, junior middleweights; Carlos Gerena, Puerto Rico, vs. Angel Aldana, Mexico, 8, junior lightweights; Maurice Harris, Newark, vs. Louis Monaco, Denver, 8, heavyweights.

At Mexico City, Jesus Chavez, Austin, Tx., vs. Julio Alvarez, Mexico, 12, for Chavez's NABF junior lightweight title.

May 23

At Kansas City, Ray Berry, Sevierville, Tenn., vs. Glenn Robinson, Bronx, 12, light heavyweights; Randle Carver, Kansas City, vs. Mario Iribarren, Miami, 10, super middleweights.

May 28

At Montreal, (ESPN2), Davey Hilton, Canada, vs. Stephane Quellet, Canada, 12, middleweights.

May 29

At Puerto Rico, Felix Trinidad, Puerto Rico, vs. Vincent Pettway, Baltimore, 12, for Trinidad's IBF welterweight title.

At South Africa, Benedict Ledwaba, South Africa, vs. John Michael Johnson, Dallas, 12, super bantamweights.

At Bari, Italy, Michele Piccirillo, Italy, vs. Juan Martin Coggi, Argentina, 12, welterweights.

June 3

At Mt. Pleasant, Mich., Chris Byrd, Flint, vs. Jose Ribalta, Cuba, 10, heavyweights.

June 4

At Philadelphia, (ESPN2), Richard DeJesus, Wilmington, Del., vs. Orlando Canizales, Laredo, 10, featherweights; Billy Irwin, Niagra Falls, vs. John Lark, Gary, Ind., 10, lightweights; Sammy Ahmad, Philadelphia, vs. John Scully, Windsor, Conn., 8, light heavyweights.

June 5

At Biloxi, Miss., (HBO), Roy Jones, Pensacola, Fla., vs. Reggie Johnson, Houston, 12, for Jones' WBC and WBA and Johnson's IBF light heavyweight titles; Arthur Williams, Las Vegas, vs. Alexander Gurov, Russia, 12, for Williams' IBF cruiserweight title.

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

June 11

At Vernona, N.Y., Carl Daniels, St. Louis, vs. Bobby Heath, Reading, Pa., 12, for Daniels' USBA junior middleweight title; Greg Haugen, Seattle, vs. Tracy Patterson, Troy, N.Y., 10, welterweights; Paul Spadafora, Pittsburgh, vs. Luther Smith, Washington, 10, welterweights.

June 12

At the Cal-Neva, Reno, TBA.

June 13

At Seoul, Korea, Cho In-Joo, Korea, vs. Pone Saengmorakot, Thailand, 12, for In-Joo's WBC junior bantamweight title.

June 19

At TBA, (HBO), Michael Grant, New York, vs. Lou Savarese, Houston, 12, for Grant's NABF heavyweight title; Jeremy Williams, Long Beach, vs. Hasim Rahman, Baltimore, 10, heavyweights.

June 23

At Edmonton, Manny Sobral, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 12, junior middleweights.

June 26

At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, (PPV), Johnny Tapia, Las Vegas, vs. Paulie Ayala, Fort Worth, 12, for Tapia's WBA bantamweight title; Stevie Johnston, Denver, vs. Aldo Rios, Argentina, 12, for Johnston's WBC lightweight title; Butterbean Esch, Bay City, Mich., vs. Peter McNeeley, Medfield, Mass., 4, heavyweights; Yory Boy Campas, Mexico, vs. Peter Mullings, Baltimore, 10, junior middleweights.

June 27

At Tokyo, Takanori Hatakeyama, Japan, vs. Lakva Sim, Mongolia, 12, for Hatakeyama's WBA junior lightweight title.

July 3

At Los Angeles, David Tua, Somoa, vs. Jimmy Thunder, Las Vegas, 10, heavyweights.

July 9

At Cape Cod, R.I., (ESPN2), Zab Judah, New York, vs. Ray Olivera, Boston, 12, for Judah's USBA junior welterweight title.

July 31

At Nagoya, Japan, Jesus Rojas, Mexico, vs. Hideki Todaka, Japan, 12, for Rojas' WBA junior bantamweight title.

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