FIGHT SCHEDULE


FIGHT SCHEDULE

National TV in parentheses

Dec. 10

At Sydney, Anthony Mundine, Australia, vs. Jose Alberto Clavero, Argentina, 12, for Mundine’s WBA “regular” super middleweight title.

Dec. 14

At Cicero Stadium, Cicero, Ill., Orlando Salido, Mexico, vs. Hector Avila, Dominican Republic, 10, featherweights; Miguel Angel Huerta, Mexico, vs. Daniel Alicea, Camden, N.J., 10, lightweights.

Dec. 15

At Plaza de Toros, Cancun, Mexico (PPV), Edwin Valero, Venezuela, vs. Juan Carlos Salgado, Mexico, 12, for Valero’s WBA junior lightweight title; Jorge Linares, Venezuela, vs. Gamaliel Diaz, Mexico, 12, for Linares’ WBC featherweight title; Rudolfo Lopez, Mexico, vs. Naoki Matsuda, Japan, rematch, 10 or 12 rounds, featherweights.

At Meadowbank Sports Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, Alex Arthur, Scotland, vs. Steven Foster Jr., Britain, 12, for Arthur’s WBO interim junior lightweight title.

Dec. 16

At Challenge Stadium, Mt Claremont, Perth, Australia, Stipe Drews, Croatia, vs. Danny Green, Australia, 12, for Drews’ WBA light heavyweight title.

Dec. 20

At Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Joshua Clottey, Ghana, vs. Shamone Alvarez, Atlantic City, N.J., 12, IBF welterweight eliminator; Tye Fields, Las Vegas, vs. Chris Koval, Youngstown, Ohio, 10, heavyweights.

Dec. 21

At Dickerson’s Events Center, Las Cruces, N.M., Urbano Antillon, Maywood, Calif., vs. Adrian Valdez, Mexico, 10, lightweights.

Dec. 28

At Vancouver, Britsh Columbia, (ESPN2), Dominick Guinn, Houston Texas, vs. Alonzo Butler, Knoxville,Tenn., 10, heavyweights.

Dec. 29

At Seidensticker Halle, Bielefeld, Germany, Steve Cunningham, Philadelphia, vs. Marco Huck, Germany, 12, for Cunningham’s IBF cruiserweight title.

2008

Jan. 5

At Bally’s Hotel & Casino, Atlantic City, N.J. (SHO), Paul Malignaggi, Brooklyn, N.Y., vs. Herman Ngoudjo, Canada, 12, for Malignaggi’s IBF junior welterweight title.

Jan. 10

At Prefectural Gym, Osaka, Japan, Hozumi Hasegawa, Japan, vs. Simone Maludrottu, Italy, 12, for Hasegawa’s WBC bantamweight title; Wladimir Sidorenko, Germany, vs. Nobuto Ikehara, Japan, 12, for Sidorenko’s WBA bantamweight title.

Jan. 14

At Yokohama, Japan, Alexander Munoz, Venezuela, vs. Katsushige Kawashima, Japan, 12, for Munoz’s WBA junior bantamweight title.

Jan. 19

At Madison Square Garden, New York (PPV), Roy Jones Jr., Pensacola, Fla., vs. Felix Trinidad, Puerto Rico, 12, light heavyweights; Cory Spinks, St. Louis, vs. Verno Phillips, Denver, 12, for Spinks’ IBF junior middleweight title.

Jan. 26

At Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany (HBO), Alexander Povetkin, Russia vs. Eddie Chambers, Philadelphia, 12, IBF final heavyweight title eliminator.

Jan. 29

At Bangkok: Daisuke Naito, Japan, vs. Pongsaklek Wonjongkam, Thailand, fourth fight, 12, for Naito’s WBC flyweight title.

Feb. 2

At Madison Square Garden, New York, Oleg Maskaev, West Sacramento, Calif., vs. Samuel Peter, Nigeria, 12, for Maskaev’s WBC heavyweight title.

Feb. 16

At MGM Grand, Las Vegas (PPV), Kelly Pavlik, Youngstown, Ohio, vs. Jermain Taylor, Little Rock Ark., 12, for Pavlik’s WBC and WBO middleweight titles.

Feb. 23

At Madison Square Garden, New York (HBO), Wladimir Klitschko, Ukraine, vs. Sultan Ibragimov, Russia, 12, IBF/WBO heavyweight unification.

March 1

At Dodge Arena, Hidalgo, Texas (SHO), Israel Vazquez, Mexico, vs. Rafael Marquez, Mexico, 12, for Vazquez’s Ring and WBC junior featherweight titles.

March 15

At Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas (PPV), Juan Manuel Marquez, Anaheim, Calif., vs. Manny Pacquiao, Philippines, 12, for Marquez’s WBC super featherweight title.