There Is Little Left to Chance : Boxing: Chavez, Norris, Jackson and Haugen beat set-ups in preparation for Mexico City card.

Sunday night’s fight card featuring Julio Cesar Chavez, Terry Norris, Julian Jackson and Greg Haugen was billed by promoters as An Evening of Champions.

Everyone else had tabbed it An Evening of Watching Bums Get the Beatings of Their Lives.

The non-title fights supported the majority opinion, as Norris sent unrelenting punches to the head of Pat Lawlor, beating him mercilessly for nine minutes until the referee could watch no more.

And Chavez (84-0) also dominated every aspect of his fight against little-known Marty Jakubowski and beat him nearly as badly as Norris beat Lawlor. The hardest part of Chavez’s night was catching Jakubowski.

But Jackson, the WBC middleweight champion who brought a 45-1 record with 42 knockouts into the ring against unknown and nine time loser Eddie Hall, was battered, staggered and cut badly over his left eye before knocking out Hall in the fourth round.

And Haugen (32-4-1), a three-time champion who has signed to fight Chavez in February, had all he could handle in winning a decision over Armando Campas (16-5-2) of Mexicali, leaving the ring with a badly bleeding nose and a face full of welts.

The victories set up a Feb. 20 card in Mexico City that will feature Chavez-Haugen, Norris against International Boxing Federation welterweight champion Maurice Blocker and Jackson against Gerald McClellan.

The road to Mexico City was easier for some than others.

Chavez chased Jakubowski from the opening bell. When Chavez caught him in the fifth round, the undefeated World Boxing Council super-lightweight champion made Jakubowski pay dearly, battering him against the ropes with left hooks and thumping rights.

The mauling continued in the sixth, and 18 seconds into that round referee Carlos Padilla halted the attack, wrapping his arms around a bleeding and dazed Jakubowski, who protested.

“I didn’t want to hurt the kid,” Chavez said. “I felt some compassion. He tried hard.”

If Norris (33-3), the fast WBC super-welterweight champion, felt any compassion toward Lawlor, he kept it well hidden.

He ripped the slow-handed and light-punching Lawlor from the opening bell, knocking him down with the first real punch he threw--a left hook that lifted Lawlor off his feet and left him on his back.

Lawlor got up at the count of six, and things got worse for him until, at the end of the third round, referee Joe Cortez, Lawlor’s handlers and Lawlor himself came to a quick agreement that any more would be ridiculous.

“He was leading with his head,” Norris said of Lawlor (18-4). “He was sticking it up for me to hit. I just threw uppercuts. He was eating the uppercuts.”

It probably will be the last solid thing Lawlor will eat for a day or two. The fight ended with him bleeding profusely from the mouth, his mouthpiece having been hammered out by Norris.

Jackson was staggered twice by Hall (21-10-1) in the third round, but the tactic turned on him quickly as Jackson knocked him down with a barrage of heavy blows in the closing seconds.

In the fourth round, Jackson began battering Hall, ending the attack with a crushing left hook that put him down again. Padilla then stopped the fight.

“You try not to take a fight like this lightly,” Jackson said. “Everyone tells me it will be an easy fight, no problem, and that does something to you. It affected me, and I did take him lightly. And I paid for it.”

In earlier bouts, Greg Page and Tony Tucker, who once owned pieces of the heavyweight title, struggled to beat opponents who had a combined record of 30-16.

Tucker, 48-1, (233) the WBC’s No. 2-ranked contender, went six tough rounds with Frankie Swindell, 26-8, (206) of Nashville before Swindell quit with a hand injury.

And Page, 230, who won the World Boxing Assn. title a decade ago, needed eight rounds to stop K.P. Porter, 208, of Battle Creek, Mich., who fell to a 14-10. Page is 36-11.