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Updated at 4:27 a.m., Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Boxing: Viloria to fight March 22 in Manila for IBF light flyweight title

Associated Press

Waipahu's Brian Viloria will fight Mexico's Ulises Solis on March 22 in Manila for Solis' IBF light flyweight title.

Also on the card, Nonito Donaire, San Leandro, Calif., will fight Raul Martinez, San Antonio, for Donaire's IBF-IBO flyweight titles.

Both bouts are scheduled for 12 rounds.

Fight schedule (national TV in parentheses)

Friday

At the Roseland Ballroom, New York (ESPN2), Alexis Camacho, Austin, Texas, vs. Carlos Molina, Chicago, 10, welterweights.

Saturday

At St. Quentin, France, Cristobal Cruz, Mexico, vs. Cyril Thomas, France, 12, for Cruz's IBF featherweight title; Osman Aktas, France, vs. Guillaume Frenois, France, 10, for Aktas' French featherweight title.

At BankAtlantic Center, Sunrise, Fla. (HBO), Nate Campbell, Tampa, Fla., vs. Ali Fuenka, South Africa, 12, for Campbell's IBF-WBO lightweight titles; Sergio Martinez, Spain, vs. Kermit Cintron, Redding, Pa., 12, for the interim WBC light middleweight title; Francisco Palacios, Puerto Rico, vs. Lawrence Chapman, Atlanta, 12, for Palacios' WBA Fedlatin cruiserweight title; Alfredo Angulo, Coachella, Calif., vs. Danny Perez, San Diego, 10, middleweights; Ray Austin, Cleveland, vs. Alex Gonzales, Puerto Rico, 10, heavyweights.

Feb. 20

At Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (ESPN2), Jesus Gonzales, Phoenix, vs. Richard Gutierrez, Miami, 10, light middleweights.

Feb. 21

At Madison Square Garden, New York (PPV), Miguel Cotto, Puerto Rico, vs. Michael Jennings, England, 12, for the vacant WBO welterweight title.

At Youngstown, Ohio (PPV), Kelly Pavlik, Youngstown, Ohio, vs. Marco Antonio Rubio, Mexico, 12, for Pavlik's WBC-WBO middleweight titles.

Feb. 27

At Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Hollywood, Fla. (ESPN2), Glen Johnson, Miami, vs. Daniel Judah, Brooklyn, N.Y., 10, light heavyweights.

At the Prudential Center, Newark, N.J. (SHO), Tomasz Adamek, Jersey City, N.J., Johnathon Banks, Detroit, 12, for Adamek's IBF cruiserweight title; Dionisio Miranda, Miami, vs. Giovanni Lorenzo, New York, 12, IBF middleweight eliminator.

Feb. 28

At the Toyota Center, Houston (HBO), Juan Manuel Marquez, Anaheim, Calif., vs. Juan Diaz, Houston, 12, for Diaz's IBO lightweight title; Chris John, Indonesia, vs. Rocky Juarez, Houston, 12, for John's WBA featherweight title.

At Oaxaca, Mexico, Roman Gonzalez, Nicaragua, vs. Francisco Rosas, Mexico, 12, for Gonzalez's WBA minimumweight title.

At Toluca, Mexico, Cesar Canchilla, Colombia, vs. Giovanni Segura, Bell Gardens, Calif., 12, for the interim WBA light flyweight title.

March 6

At Mohegan Sun Casino, Uncasville, Conn. (ESPN2), Delvin Rodriguez, Danbury, Conn., vs. Shamone Alvarez, Atlantic City, N.J., IBF welterweight title eliminator.

March 7

At HP Pavilion, San Jose, calif. (HBO), Victor Ortiz, Oxnard, Calif., vs. Mike Arnaoutis, Atlantic City, N.J., 12, for Ortiz's WBO-NABO-USBA light welterweight titles; James Kirkland, Austin, Texas, vs. Joel Julio, Miami, 10, light middleweights; Robert Guerrero, Gilroy, Calif., vs. Daud Cino Yordan, Indonesia, 10, super featherweights.

March 12

At Tokyo, Oscar Larios, Mexico, vs. Takahiro Aoh, Japan, 12, for Larios' WBC featherweight title.

At Hyogo, Japan, Hozumi Hasegawa, Japan, vs. Vusi Malinga, South Africa, 12, for Hasegawa's WBC bantamweight title.

March 13

At Bell Centre, Montreal (SHO), Lucian Bute, Canada, vs. Fulgencio Zuniga, Colombia, 12, for Bute's IBF super middleweight title.

March 14

At Kiel, Germany, Arthur Abraham, Germany, vs. Lajuan Simon, Philadelphia, 12, for Abraham's IBF middleweight title.

At Palms Casino, Las Vegas (HBO), Chad Dawson, New Haven, Conn., vs. Antonio Tarver, Tampa, Fla., 12, for Dawson's IBF-IBO light heavyweight title.

At Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico, Cristian Mijares, Mexico, vs. Nehomar Cermeno, Panama, 12, for the interim WBA bantamweight title; Jorge Linares, Japan, vs. Josafet Perez, Mexico, 12, for Linares' WBA super featherweight title.

March 20

At TBA, Panama, Celestino Caballero, Panama, vs. Jeffrey Mathebula, South Africa, 12, for Caballero's WBA-IBF super bantamweight titles.

March 21

Kempton Park, South Africa, Zolani Marali, South Africa, vs. Fahsai Sakkreenin, Thailand, 12, for the vacant IBO super featherweight title; Jake Els, South Africa, vs. Thamsanqa, Zimbabwe, 12, for the vacant WBA Pan African heavyweight title; Hekkie Budier, South Africa, vs. Charitt Mukondeleli, South Africa, 12, for the vacant African Boxing Union light flyweight title.

At Stuttgart, Germany (ESPN), Vitali Klitschko, Los Angeles, vs. Juan Carlos Gomez, Germany, 12, for Klitschko's WBC heavyweight title.

At Dublin, Ireland, Ricardo Cordoba, Panama, vs. Bernard Dunne, Ireland, 12, for Cordoba's WBA super bantamweight title.

March 22

At Manila, Philippines, Nonito Donaire, San Leandro, Calif., vs. Raul Martinez, San Antonio, 12, for Donaire's IBF-IBO flyweight titles; Ulises Solis, Mexico, vs. Brian Viloria, Waipahu, Hawaii, 12, for Solis' IBF light flyweight title.

March 27

At Milan, Krzysztof Wlodarczyk, Poland, vs. Giacobbe Fragomeni, Italy, 12, for Wlodarczyk's WBC cruiserweight title.

March 28

At Tamaulipas, Mexico, Edgar Sosa, Mexico, vs. Kompayak Porpramook, Thailand, 12, for Sosa's WBC light flyweight title.

April 4

At Bell Centre, Montreal (SHO), Timothy Bradley, Palm Springs, Calif., vs. Kendall Holt, Paterson, N.J., 12, for Bradley's WBC light welterweight title and Holt's WBO light welterweight title; Librado Andrade, La Habra, Calif., vs. Vitali Tsypko, Ukraine, 12, super middleweights.

April 10

At Morongo Casino Rresort & Spa, Cabazon, Calif. (ESPN2), Julio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., vs. Michael Katsidis, Australia, 10, cruiserweights.

April 11

At Osaka, Japan, Nobuo Nashiro, Japan, vs. Konosuke Tomiyama, Japan, 12, for Nashiro's WBA super flyweight title.

At Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas (HBO), Paul Williams, Augusta, Ga., vs. Ronald Wright, St. Petersburg, Fla., 12, for the interim WBO light middleweight title.

April 18

At Johannesburg, South Africa, Yonnhy Perez, Santa Fe Springs, Calif., vs. Silence Mabuza, South Africa, 10, IBF bantamweight eliminator.

April 25

At TBA, Puerto Rico (HBO), Juan Manuel Lopez, Puerto Rico, vs. Gerry Penalosa, Philippines, 12, for Lopez's WBO super Bantamweight title.

May 2

At the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Ricky Hatton, Britain, vs. Manny Pacquiao, Philippines, 12, for Hatton's IBO junior welterweight title.

June 20

At London, Wladimir Klitschko, Ukraine, vs. David Haya, Britain, 12, for Klitschko's IBF-WBO-IBO heavyweight titles.