Fight schedule

Friday

At the Orleans, Las Vegas, Manuel Medina, Mexico, vs. Frankie Toledo, Newark, N.J., 10, featherweights; Raul Perez, Mexico, vs. Nestor Lopez, Mexico, 10, featherweights.

At Udonthai, Thailand, Medgoen Singsurat, Thailand, vs. Malcolm Tunacao, Philippines, 12, for Singsurat's WBC flyweight title.

At Beverly Hills, Calif., Vassily Jirov, Kazakhastan, vs. Esteben Pizarro, Puerto Rico, 12, for Jirov's IBF cruiserweight title.

At Ft. Worth, Texas, Tony Ayala, San Antonio, vs. Nick Rupa, Cleveland, 10, junior middleweights.

Saturday

At Atlantic City, N.J., (HBO), Derrick Jefferson, Detroit, vs. Oleg Maskaev, Staten Island, N.Y., 10, heavyweights; Corrie Sanders, South Africa, vs. Hasim Rahman, Baltimore, 12, heavyweights.

At Osaka, Japan, Masamori Tokuyama, Japan, vs. Jack Siahaya, Indonesia, 12, junior bantamweights.

At Biloxi, Miss. David Izon, Pensacola, Fla., vs. Reynaldo Minus, Bahamas, 10, heavyweights.

At Tunica, Miss., (Showtime), William Joppy, Seabrook, Md., vs. Rito Ruvalcaba, Mexico, 12, for Joppy's WBA middleweight title; Julio Gamboa, Nicaragua, vs. Felix Machado, Venezuela, 12, junior bantamweights.

At Carnival City, South Africa, Cassius Baloyi, South Africa, vs. Hector Lizarraga, Fresno, 12, featherweights; Hawk Makepula, South Africa, vs. Marcos Obregon, Argentina, 12, junior flyweights; Peter Culshaw, England, vs. Jake Matlala, South Africa, 12, flyweights.

At Lake Tahoe, Juan Manuel Marquez, Mexico, vs. Roque Cassiani, Mexico, 12, featherweights.

Sunday

At Kansas City, (FSN), Joel Casamayor, Cuba, vs. Jong-Kwon Baek, Korea, for Baek's WBA junior lightweight title; Goyo Vargas, Mexico, vs. TBA, 10, junior lightweights; Limmie Young, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 8, welterweights.

May 25

At Tunica, Miss., (DirecTV), Ray Mercer, Newark, vs. Anthony Willis, St. Louis, 10, heavyweights; Oliver McCall, Chicago, vs. Marcus McIntyre, Princeton, N.J., 10, heavyweights; Larry Donald, Cincinnati, vs. Phil Jackson, Miami, 10, heavyweights; Henry Akinwande, Tallahassee, vs. Russell Chasteen, England, 10, heavyweights.

At Mendoza, Argentina, Freddie Norwood, Las Vegas, vs. Julio Pablo Chacon, Argentina, 12, for Norwood's WBA featherweight title.

May 26

At Toronto, Canada, Trevor Berbick, Canada, vs. Shane Sutcliffe, Canada, 10, heavyweights.

At Holbaek, Denmark, Thomas Damgaard, Denmark, vs. TBA, 12, welterweights.

May 28

At Irvine, Calif., Raul Franco, Mexico, vs. Danny Perez, El Cajon, Calif., 10, welterweights.

May 29

At Piancavallo, Italy, Michele Piccirillo, Italy, vs. Walter Crucce, Argentina, 12, welterweights.

June 2

At Kent, England, Zolani Petelo, South Africa, vs. Mickey Cantwell, England, for Petelo's IBF junior flyweight title.

At Cancun, Mexico, (DirecTV), TBA.

At Philadelphia, (ESPN2), Omar Sheika, Paterson, N.J., vs. Glen Johnson, Jamaica, 10, super middleweights; Billy Irwin, Niagra Falls, vs. Miguel Arrozal, Oakland, 10, lightweights.

June 3

At Regent Las Vegas, Las Vegas, (Showtime), David Tua, New Zealand, vs. Obed Sullivan, Houston, 12, for Tua's USBA heavyweight title.

At Imperial, Calif., (Univision), Alejandro Gonzalez, Mexico, vs. Harold Warren, Corpus Christi, 12, featherweights.

At Caserta, Italy, Antonio Perugino, Italy, vs. Johnson Tshuma, South Africa, 12, middleweights.

At Karlsruhe, Germany, Sven Ottke, Germany, vs. Robin Reid, England, 12, for Ottke's IBF super middleweight title.

June 10

At Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, (Showtime), Evander Holyfield, Atlanta, vs. John Ruiz, Methuen, Mass., 12, for vacant WBA heavyweight title; James Page, Pittsburg, Calif., vs. Andrew Lewis, Guyana, 12, for Page's WBA welterweight title; Randall Bailey, Miami, vs. TBA, 12, junior welterweights.

At Lincoln City, Ore., (HBO), Acelino Freitas, Argentina, vs. Lemuel Nelson, 10, junior lightweights; Omar Sheika, New York, vs. TBA, 10, super middleweights.

June 11

At Tokyo, Japan, Gilbert Serrano, Venezuela, vs. Takanori Hatakeyama, Japan, 12, for Serrano's WBA lightweight title.

June 16

At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, (Showtime), Andrew Golota, Poland, vs. Orlin Norris, Lubbock, Texas, 10, heavyweights; Juan Lazcano, Sacramento, vs. TBA, 12, for vacant NABF lightweight title.

At the Orleans, Las Vegas, TBA.

At Los Angeles, (ESPN2), Antonio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., vs. TBA, 12, junior welterweights.

June 17

At Los Angeles, (PPV), Oscar De La Hoya, Whittier, Calif., vs. Shane Mosley, Pomona, Calif., 12, for De La Hoya's WBC welterweight title; Erik Morales, Mexico, vs. Mike Jaurez, Omaha, 10, featherweight; Diego Corrales, Sacramento, vs. Justin Juuko, Las Vegas, 12, for Corrales' IBF junior lightweight title; Shannon Taylor, Australia, vs. Miguel Angel Ruiz, Mexico, 10, welterweights.

At Los Angeles, (ABC), Stevie Johnston, Denver, vs. Jose Luis Castillo, Mexico, 12, for Johnston's WBC lightweight title.

June 18

At Regent Las Vegas, Las Vegas, (FSN), Hector Camacho Jr., Miami, vs. Manard Reed, Steubenville, Ohio, 12, junior welterweights; Augie Sanchez, Las Vegas, vs. TBA, 10, featherweights.

At Los Angeles, (ABC), Paulie Ayala, Fort Worth, vs. TBA, 12, for Ayala's WBA bantamweight title.

June 23

At the Hard Rock, Las Vegas, TBA.

At Budapest, Hungary, Istvan Kovacs, Hungary, vs. Steve Robinson, England, 12, featherweights.

At Merida, Mexico, Guty Espadas, Mexico, vs. TBA, 12, for Espadas' WBC featherweight title.

June 24

At TBA, (Showtime), Mike Tyson, Catskills, N.Y., vs. Lou Savarese, New York, 10, heavyweights; Zab Judah, New York, vs. Jason Rowland, 12, junior welterweights.

At TBA, (Univision), Cesar Soto, Mexico, vs. Oscar Chololo Larios, Mexico, 12, super bantamweights.

June 25

At Tokyo, Japan, Veeraphol Sahaprom, Thailand, vs. Toshiaki Nishioka, Japan, 12, for Sahaprom's WBC bantamweight title.

At Elgin, Ill., (FSN), Robbie Peden, New Zealand, vs. John Brown, Louisville, 12, junior lightweights.

July 15

At London, England, Lennox Lewis, England, vs. Frans Botha, South Africa, 12, for Lewis' WBC and IBF heavyweight championships.

At Secaucus, N.J., (Univision), Victor Rosado, Bronx, N.Y., vs. vs. TBA, 10, welterweights; Emmanuel Lucero, Bronx, N.Y., vs. TBA, 8, super bantamweights.

July 29

At TBA, Kostya Tszyu, Australia, vs. Julio Cesar Chavez, Mexico, 12, for Tszyu's WBC junior welterweight title.

At TBA, David Tua, New Zealand, vs. TBA, 12, for Tua's USBA heavyweight title.

August 26

At TBA, (HBO), Fernando Vargas, Oxnard, Calif., vs. TBA, 12, for Vargas' IBF junior middleweight title.

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