Whitaker to Meet Layne at Norfolk on Dec. 20

Lightweight boxer Pernell (Sweetpea) Whitaker of Norfolk will fight Alfredo Layne of Panama Dec. 20 at Norfolk’s Scope arena.

The fight will replace one that had been scheduled Nov. 20 in Norfolk between Whitaker and Victor Acosta, said Kathy Duva, a spokeswoman for Main Events-Monitor Productions of West Paterson, N.J.

Instead, Whitaker and Acosta will fight Nov. 19 in Atlantic City, she said.

Whitaker won an Olympic gold medal in 1984.