Thursday, May 25, 2006
Fight Schedule
May 25
At Temecula, Calif. (FSN), Fres Qquendo, Chicago, vs. Javier Mora, Anaheim, Calif., 10, heavyweights.
May 26
At San Juan, Puerto Rico, Nelson Dieppa, Puerto Rico, vs. Eric Ramirez, 10, light flys.
At Tropicana, Atlantic City, N.J., Stevie Johnston, Vero Beach, Fla., vs. Herman Ngoudjo, Canada, 12, for Johnston's IBO and NABF light welterweight titles; Eric Mitchell, Vero Beach, Fla., vs. Charles Whittaker, Miami, 12, for the vacant IBO Intercontinental light middleweight title.
At Cohen Stadium, El Paso, Texas (ESPN), Delvin Rodriguez, Danbury, Conn., vs. Luis Hernandez, Ecuador, 10, for the vacant USBA welterweight title.
At South Coast Casino, Las Vegas, Eric Mitchell, Vero Beach, Fla., vs. Charles Whitaker, Miami, 12, for Whitaker's WBC CABOFE light middleweight title; Danny Santiago, Ocala, Fla., vs. Rubin Williams, Detroit, 12, light heavyweights.
May 27
At Munchen, Germany, Segiy Dzinziruk, Germany, vs. Sebastian Lujan, Argentina, 12, for Dzinziruk's WBO light middleweight title; Juergen Braehmer, Germany, vs. Mario Veit, Germany, 12, for Braehmer's WBC International super middleweight title; Stipe Drews, Croatia, vs. Kai Kurzawa, Germany, 12, for Drews' EBU light heavyweight title.
At Home Depot Center, Carson, Calif. (HBO), Daniel Ponce De Leon, Mexico, vs. Alejandro Barrera, Mexico, 12, for De Leon's WBO super bantamweight title; Jhonny Gonzalez, Mexico, vs. Fernando Montiel, Mexico, 12, for Gonzalez's WBO bantamweight title; Walter Matthysse, Argentina, vs. Paul Williams, Augusta, Ga., 10, welterweights; Hugo Cazares, Mexico, vs. Edgar Sosa, Mexico, 12, for Cazares' WBO light flyweight title.
May 31
At Airway Heights, Washington (ESPN), Manuel Medina, Mexico, vs. Cassius Baloyi, South Africa, 12, for the vacant IBF super featherweight title.
June 2
At Miccosukee Resort & amp; Gaming, Miami, Felix Flores, Puerto Rico, vs. Cosme Rivera, Mexico, 12, for Flores' WBO Latino welterweight title and Rivera's WBA Fedecentro welterweight title.
At Chumash Casino, Santa Ynez, Calif. (SHO), Eric Harding, West Hartford, Conn., vs. Chad Dawson, New Haven, Conn., 10, for the NABF light heavyweight title.
June 3
At Hannover, Germany, Nikolay Valuev, Russia, vs. Owen Beck, Nashville, Tenn., 12, for Valuev's WBA heavyweight title.
At Szolnok, Hungary, Steve Conway, Britain, vs. Attila Kovacs, Hungary, 12, for Conway's IBO light middleweight title.
At Las Vegas, (SHO), Diego Corrales, Sacramento, Calif. vs. Jose Luis Castillo, Mexico, 12, for Corrales' WBC lightweight title; Vic Darchinyan, Australia, vs. Luis Maldonado, Mexico, 12, for Darchinyan's IBF flyweight title; Yuri Foreman, Brooklyn, N.Y., vs. Jesus Valverde, Mexico, 10, super welterweights.
June 7
At Borgata Hotel Casino, Atlantic City, N.J. (ESPN), Demetrius Hopkins, Phila., vs. Michael Warrick, Landover, Md., 10, light welters.
June 9
At Copenhagen, Denmark, Mikkel Kessler, Denmark, vs. Vitali Tsypko, Ukraine, 12, for Kessler's WBA super middleweight title.
At Atlantic City, N.J., Kendall Holt, Paterson, N.J., vs. Jauquin Gallardo, San Leandro, Calif., 12, for the vacant WBO Inter-Continental light welterweight title.
June 10
At Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, N.J. (PPV), Antonio Tarver, Tampa, Fla., vs. Bernard Hopkins, Philadelphia, 12, for Tarver's IBO and NBA light heavyweight titles.
At Madison Square Garden, New York (PPV), Miguel Cotto, Puerto Rico, vs. Paulie Malignaggi, New York, 12, for Cotto's WBO junior welterweight title; Bobby Pacquiao, Philippines, vs. Kevin Kelley, Flushing, N.Y., 12, for Pacquiao's WBC Continental Americas junior lightweight title; John Duddy, Ireland, vs. Freddy Cuevas, Chicago, 12, for the vacant WBC Continental Americas middleweight title.
June 14
At Dover Downs, Del. (ESPN), Oscar Diaz, San Antonio, vs. Chris Smith, Queens, N.Y., 10, welterweights. June 16
At Philadelphia, Rogers Mtagwa, Philadelphia, vs. Artyom Simonyan, Glendale, Calif., 12, for Mtagwa's USBA featherweight title. June 17
At FedEx Forum, Memphis, Tenn. (HBO), Jermain Taylor, Little Rock, Ark., vs. Ronald Wright, St. Petersburg, Fla., 12, for Taylor's WBC and WBO middleweight titles.
At Blackham Coliseum, Lafayette, La., Chad Broussard, Lafayette, La., vs. Homer Gibbins, Riverdale, Ga., 12, for Broussard's IBU welterweight title. June 24
At Caesars Palace, Las Vegas (HBO), Joel Julio, Colombia, vs. Carlos Quintana, Puerto Rico, 12, WBA welterweight title eliminator; Timur Ibragimov, Hallandale, Fla., vs. Calvin Brock, Charlotte, N.C., 12, for Ibragimov's WBA Fecarbox heavyweight title.
June 28
At Houston (ESPN), Dominick Guinn, Houston, vs. Tony Thompson, Silver Spring, Md., 10, heavyweights. June 29
At Delta Center, Salt Lake City, Vince Phillips, Las Vegas, vs. Justo Sanchez, Howell, Utah, 10, welterweights; Kelvin Davis, Natchez, Miss., vs. David Vedder, San Jose, Calif., 10, heavyweights. June 30
At Hard Rock Live Arena, Hollywood, Fla. (ESPN), Juan Urango, Miami, vs. Naoufel Ben Rabah, Australia, 12, for the vacant IBF light welterweight title.
At Denver Coliseum, Lanardo Tyner, Detroit, vs. Robert Finkel, Denver, 12, light welterweights.
At Desert Diamond Casino, Tucson, Ariz., Hugo Cazares, Mexico, vs. Domingo Guillen, Dominican Republic, 12, for Cazares' WBO light flyweight title. July 2
At Manila, Philippines, Manny Pacquiao, Philippines, vs. Oscar Larios, Mexico, 12, for Pacquiao's WBC International super featherweight title.
At Jakarta, Indonesia, Chris John, Indonesia, vs. Renan Acosta, Panama, 12, for John's WBA featherweight title. July 8
At Savvis Center, St. Louis (SHO), Roman Karmazin, Russia, vs. Cory Spinks, St. Louis, 12, for Karmazin's IBF junior middleweight title.
July 15
At Hamburg, Germany, Felix Sturm, Germany, vs. Javier Castillejo, Spain, 12, for Sturm's WBA middleweight title.
At Los Angeles (PPV), Shane Mosley, La Verne, Calif., vs. Fernando Vargas, Oxnard, Calif., 12, light middleweights.
July 22
At Bangkok, Thailand, Juanito Rubilar, Philippines, vs. Wandee Singwangcha, Thailand, 12, for the interim WBC light flyweight title.
At Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, N.J. (HBO), Carlos Manuel Baldomir, Los Angeles, vs. Arturo Gatti, Jersey City, N.J., 12, for Baldomir's WBC welterweight title.
At Qwest Arena, Boise, Idaho, Prince Badi Ajamu, Camden, N.J., vs. Roy Jones, Jr., Pensacola, Fla., 12, for Ajamu's WBO NABO light heavyweight title. July 30
At Fukuoka, Japan, Takashi Koshimoto, Japan, vs. Rodolfo Lopez, Mexico, 12, for Koshimoto's WBC featherweight title. Aug. 5
At TBA, Nevada, Juan Manuel Marquez, Anaheim, Calif., vs. Humberto Soto, Mexico, 12, for the WBC interim featherweight title; Rafael Marquez, Mexico, vs. Silence Mabuza, South Africa, 12, for Marquez's IBF bantamweight title. Aug. 12
At Thomas and Mack Center, Las Vegas (HBO), Hasim Rahman, Baltimore, vs. Oleg Maskaev, Kazakhstan, 12, for Rahman's WBC heavyweight title. Aug. 19
At TBA, Germany, Arthur Abraham, Germany, vs. Edison Miranda, Miami, 12, for Abraham's IBF middleweight title. Sept. 2
At Tokyo, Yutaka Niida, Japan, vs. Katsunari Takayama, Japan, 12, for Niida's WBA minimumweight title.
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