FIGHT SCHEDULE
National TV in parentheses 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 Mile High Event Center, Commerce City, Colo., Rob Frankel, Denver, vs. Ricardo Dominguez, Mexico, 10, lightweights. 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 Mexicali, Mexico, Cesar Canchila, Colombia, vs. Giovani Segura, Bell Gardens, Calif., 12, for Canchila's WBA light flyweight 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 Albany, N.Y., Adrian Mora, Thornton, Colo., vs. Shamir Reyes, Brooklyn, N.Y., 12, for the vacant WBA-NABA USA light welterweight titles. At TBA, Panama, Celestino Caballero, Panama, vs. Jeffrey Mathebula, South Africa, 12, for Caballero's WBA-IBF super bantamweight titles. At Laredo, Texas (ESPN2), Fernando Beltran Jr., Mexico, vs. Aldo Valtierra, Mexico, 12, for the vacant IBF Latino featherweight title. 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. At Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas, Ron Johnson, Las Vegas, vs. John Johnson, Memphis, 12, for the vacant WBF light heavyweight title. March 22 At Manila, Philippines (PPV), Nonito Donaire, Philippines, vs. Raul Martinez, San Antonio, 12, for Donaire's IBF-IBO flyweight title; Ulises Solis, Mexico, vs. Brian Viloria, Waipahu, Hawaii, 12, for Solis' IBF junior flyweight title.March 27 At Milan, Krzysztof Wlodarczyk, Poland, vs. Giacobbe Fragomeni, Italy, 12, for Wlodarczyk's WBC cruiserweight title. At the Nokia Theatre, Los Angeles (ESPN2), Samuel Peter, Las Vegas, vs. Eddie Chambers, Philadelphia, 12, heavyweights. March 28 At Tamaulipas, Mexico, Edgar Sosa, Mexico, vs. Kompayak Porpramook, Thailand, 12, for Sosa's WBC light flyweight title. At Tijuana, Mexico, Humberto Soto, Mexico, vs. Antonio Davis, Atlanta, 12, for Soto's WBC super featherweight title; Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., Mexico vs. Luciano Cuello, Argentina, 12, for the WBO Latino light middleweight 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. At Austin, Texas, Edwin Valero, Venezuela, vs. Antonio Pitalua, Mexico, 12, for the interim WBC lightweight title; Joel Casamayer, Miramor, Fla., vs. Julio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., 10, lightweights; Jesus Chavez, Austin, Texas, vs. Michael Katsidis, Australia, 10, lightweights; Jorge Barrios, Argentina, vs. Carlos Hernandez, West Covina, Calif., 10, lightweights. April 10 At Morongo Casino Resort & 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. Winky Wright, St. Petersburg, Fla., 12, for the interim WBO light middleweight title. April 17 At Star of the Desert Arena, Primm, Nev. (SHO), Yuki Gamboa, Miami, vs. Jose Rojas, Venezulea, 12, for vacant WBA featherweight 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. At Krefeld, Germany, Felix Sturm, Germany, vs. Koji Sato, Japan, 12, for Sturm's WBA middleweight 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.
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