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NEW YORK – Sugar Shane Mosley’s fight with Zab Judah on May 31 was canceled Thursday after Judah seriously injured his arm in an accidental fall.

Judah (36-5, 25 KOs), the former undisputed welterweight champion hoping for a career comeback, severely cut his right forearm and needed 50 stitches to close the wounds, which will keep him out of training for four weeks.

“It is very unfortunate that Zab suffered this injury and that this great event had to be canceled,”Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer said. “We are already in discussions with all parties involved to attempt to reschedule the fight for the near future.”

Mosley (44-5, 37 KOs), the respected former three-division champion, lost a competitive unanimous decision to Miguel Cotto in his last fight on Nov. 10. When he couldn’t nail down a rematch with WBA champion Cotto, Mosley settled for Judah in a non-title bout at the Mandalay Bay Event Center in Las Vegas.

Judah had been animated in the public build-up to the fight, offering to bet Mosley $100,000 on the fight’s outcome and later pushing out a wheelchair for the 36-year-old star at the Bernard Hopkins-Joe Calzaghe weigh-in last month.

Suriya banned for year

BANGKOK, Thailand –Olympic bronze medalist Suriya Prasathinphimai has been suspended for one year by Thailand’s boxing authorities after a positive doping test.

Suriya won bronze in the middleweight division at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

He tested positive during last year’s Southeast Asian Games, when he won gold in the 75-kilogram division. Suriya, 28, was stripped of that gold after testing positive.

compiled from advocate wire reports

Fight schedule

Today

At Atlantic City, N.J. (ESPN2), Mike Arnaoutis, Atlantic City, vs. Lanardo Tyner, Detroit, 12, for Arnaoutis’ USBA light welterweight title. May 10

At Nottingham Arena, Nottingham, England (SHO), Junior Witter, England, vs. Timothy Bradley, Palm Springs, Calif., 12, for Witter’s WBC super lightweight title; Carl Froch, England, vs. Dennis Inkin, Germany, 12, super middleweights.

Wednesday

At New York (ESPN2), Francisco Figueroa, Bronx, N.Y., vs. Luis Rodriguez, Mexico, 10, light welterweights.

May 16

At Cox Pavilion, Las Vegas (ESPN), Chris Byrd, Las Vegas, vs. Shaun George, Brooklyn, N.Y., 10, light heavyweights.

May 17

At Miami (HBO), James Kirkland, Austin, Texas, vs. Eromosele Albert, Miami, 10, junior middleweights; Yuriorkis Gamboa, Miami, vs. Darling Jimenez, Bronx, 10, junior lightweights; Alfredo Angulo, Coachella, Calif., vs. Richard Gutierrez, Miami, 10, junior middleweights.

At Aguascalientes, Mexico (PPV), Jorge Arce, Mexico, vs. Devid Lookmahanak, Thailand, 12, super flyweights.

At Durango, Mexico, Cristian Mijares, Mexico, vs. Alexander Munoz, Venezuela, 12, for Mijares’ WBA and Munoz’s WBC super flyweight titles.

At Mexico City, Ulises Solis, Mexico, vs. Juanito Rubillar, Philippines, 12, for Solis’ IBF light flyweight title.

May 19

At Tokyo, Jose Alfaro, Nicaragua, vs. Yusuke Kobori, Japan, 12, for Alfaro’s WBA lightweight title.

May 24

At City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester, England (VERSUS), Ricky Hatton, Britain, vs. Juan Lazcano, Sacramento, Calif., 12, for Hatton’s IBO light welterweight title; Paulie Malignaggi, Brooklyn, N.Y., vs. Lovemore N’Dou, South Africa, 12, for Malignaggi’s IBF junior welterweight title.

At Tui Arena, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany, Sven Ottke, Germany, vs. Dariusz Michalczewski, Poland, 12, cruiserweights.

At Isla Margarita, Venezuela, Celestino Caballero, Panama, vs. Lorenzo Parra, Venezuela, 12, for Caballero’s WBA super bantamweight title.

May 30

At Istanbul, Turkey, Sinan Samil Sam, Germany, vs. Matt Skelton, Britain, 12, for the vacant European heavyweight title.

June 7

At Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, N.J. (HBO), Kelly Pavlik, Youngstown, Ohio, vs. Gary Lockett, Wales, 12, for Pavlik’s WBC and WBA middleweight titles; Daniel Ponce De Leon, Mexico, vs. Juan Manuel Lopez, Puerto Rico, 12, for Ponce De Leon’s WBO junior featherweight title.

At Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, Conn. (SHO), Vernon Forrest, Atlanta, vs. Sergio Mora, Los Angeles, 12, for Forrest’s WBC junior middleweight title; Carlos Quintana, Puerto Rico, vs. Paul Williams, Augusta, Ga., 12, for Quintana’s WBO welterweight title.

June 15

At Tokyo, Edwin Valero, Tokyo, vs. Israel Perez, Argentina, 12, for Valero’s WBA super featherweight title.

June 20

At Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands (SHO), Andre Ward, Oakland, Calif., vs. Jerson Ravelo, Newark, N.J., 12, for the NABO super middleweight title; Cris Arreola, Riverside, Calif., vs. TBA, 12, heavyweights; Eddie Chambers, Philadelphia, vs. Raphael Butler, Rockester, Minn., 10, heavyweights.

June 21

At Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Hollywood, Fla. (SHO), Edison Miranda, Puerto Rico, vs. Arthur Abraham, Germany, 12, middleweights.

June 27

At Las Vegas (ESPN2), Yuriorkis Gamboa, Cuba, vs. Jose Rojas, Miami, 10, junior lightweights.

June 28

At Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas (PPV), David Diaz, Chicago, vs. Manny Pacquiao, Philippines, 12, for Diaz’s WBC lightweight title; Tye Fields, Las Vegas, vs. Monte Barrett, Queens, N.Y., 10, heavyweights.

July 5

At TBA, Hanover, Germany, Ruslan Chagaev, Uzbekistan, vs. Nikolai Valuev, Russia, 12, for Chagaev’s WBA heavyweight title.

At Las Vegas (SHO), Ricardo Torres, Bolivar, vs. Kendall Holt, Paterson, N.J., 12, for Torres’ WBO junior welterweight title; Giovanni Lorenzo, Dominican Republic, vs. Raul Marquez, Houston, 12, middleweights.

July 12

At Hamburg, Germany (HBO), Wladimir Klitschko, Ukraine, vs. Tony Thompson, Washington, for Klitschko’s IBF, IBO and WBO heavyweight titles.

July 26

At Madison Square Garden, New York (PPV), Miguel Cotto, Puerto Rico, vs. Antonio Margarito, Mexico, 12, for Cotto’s WBA welterweight title.

August 2

At TBA (SHO), Dimitri Kirilov, Russia, vs. Vic Darchinyan, Armenia, 12, for Kirilov’s IBF junior bantamweight title.