Yo Lumpaputans this is my last post for a few days. I know it's hard to believe, but yes it's true, BUMPnLUMP is not a full time gig. No, it has not made me riches (actually hasn't made me $20 yet). So next week I am out on business. I might get a post in on Monday, but don't be too upset, we might be without a Classic Lump next week.
Anyways good fight schedule this weekend with the headliner being Manuel Marquez (48-3-1, 35 KOs) vs. Manny Pacquaio (45-3-2, 35 KOs) for the WBC super featherweight title. These are little cats with POWER. First one was a classic with Marquez rallying from being knocked down three times in the first round. Fight was scored a draw. I don't think Manny is going to make the same mistake twice. Pacquaio winner by decision.
Sakio Bika, the Contender Champ fights on the under card. He had the crazy slug fest against Jaidon Codrington. If his defense is as bad at it was that night he is going to get taken out.
Pete Manfredo, another Contender is on ESPN2 Friday night.
OK so I just learned about this guy Saoul Mamby from this AP story.
Check this out:
1st fight in 1969
Won WBC light welterweight title in 1980
Successfully defended the title 5 times
(Pretty good so far, right?)
Now the mess begins
After losing the title has gone 13-19 including an 8 fight losing streak
Lost his last fight to a guy who was 6-25 (why do you still box with a 6-25 record? But that's a question for another day).
OK here is the kicker, good Old (and I mean that literally) Saoul is still an active fighter and just fought last week. Have you done the math yet? He is 60 years old!
The embarrassing part is the 6-25 guy who just beat him is 32 years old and it took him 10 rounds to get the decision!
Part of me says WOW, a 60 year old guy just went 10 rounds with a 32 year old fighter. I sparred a few times in my life and my sessions were 3-4 two minute rounds and I was sucking wind big time. But the other part of me says, how the hell do they allow 60 year old guys and guys with 6-25 records even step foot in the ring? Makes you wonder why NY barred Holyfield a few years ago just cause he lost a couple of fights by decision. Any one else got another view about this nonsense? Let your boy Larry know. Have a great weekend peeps.
Weekend Boxing Schedule:
FRIDAY - at Munich, Germany - 12 rounds,heavyweights: Sinan Samil Sam (29-4, 15 KOs) vs.Ratko Draskovic(27-6-2, 15 KOs).
FRIDAY - at Lincoln, Rhode Island (ESPN2) -10 rounds, super middleweights: Peter Manfredo Jr.(28-5, 13 KOs) vs. Shane Benfield (17-1, 9 KOs).
FRIDAY - at Cicero Illinois (Telefutura) -12 rounds, lightweights: Miguel Angel Huerta(26-8-1, 18 KOs) vs. Javier Jauregui (52-14-2, 36 KOs);8 rounds, lightweights: Brandon Rios (15-0, 10 KOs) vs.Alvin Brown (26-10, 12 KOs).
SATURDAY - at Las Vegas (HBO PPV) -12 rounds, WBC super featherweight title: Juan Manuel Marquez(48-3-1, 35 KOs) vs. Manny Pacquaio (45-3-2, 35 KOs);12 rounds, WBC lightweight title: David Diaz (33-1-1, 17 KOs)vs. Ramon Montano (14-3-2); 10 rounds, super middleweights:Sakio Bika (25-3-2, 15 KOs) vs. Librado Andrade (26-1, 20 KOs);12 rounds, featherweights: Steven Luevano (34-1, 15 KOs) vs.Terdsak Jandaeng (29-2, 19 KOs); 12 rounds, bantamweights:Abner Mares (15-0, 9 KOs) vs. Diosdado Gabi (30-3-1, 21 KOs).
SATURDAY - at Allentown, Pennsylvania -10 rounds, cruiserweights: Rob Calloway (67-7, 55 KOs)vs. Juan Carlos Robles (9-0, 5 KOs).
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Friday, March 14, 2008
Marquez/Pacquiao Prediction-Weekend Boxing Schedule-Who is Saoul Mamby?
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I know the Mamby. He's a Bronx boy (I'm 89 so he IS a boy). Needs dough now for shoes & eats. He;ll keep fitin as long as they let him: the Cayman's Turkey, China, Ivory Coast. He's a tough one, in the ring or in the alleyways.
Moose licks his wounds so here's a weiner:
Bam Bam Rios, 21 & undefeated takes care of business vs. old fart Big Al Brown in Chi-Town. Brown, out of the KC meat markets, is pushin' 40 and has lost 4 out of his last 7. Even old man Mamby would eat his lunch.
Rios has trained religiously for months for this one. Taggin' behind Ole' Brown in downtown has him all over the bar scene on Rush & sportin' pimp clothes on Michigan. Plus, being a stockyard rat, has been chowin' down thousands of ribs over at Carson's. No way Alvin can handle this one against a driven kid.
Good parlays here for a TKO, lots 'o blood and a longshot piss stream in the SE ring corner. Put a longshot ducat on the need for smellin' salts too.
Mamby: Islands re-cap:
Aged Mamby must retire
By Ron Shillingford, ron@cfp.ky
Monday 10th March, 2008
The Cayman boxing crowd witnessed a unique but sad occasion on the Lions Centre undercard.
There were three other fights and the main support featured Saoul Mamby the former light–welterweight champion. Mamby is a freak of nature because he is at an age when many people are already retired from regular jobs, much less for boxing. A father of six and granddad of 11, Mamby is 60 years old!
He is featured in the Guinness World of Records as the only fighter to have boxed in five different decades, starting in the Sixties. Historic events that happened in 1969 include Concorde taking to the air for the first time, the first heart transplant was made, John Lennon and Yoko Ono conducted their bed–in, the first men landed on the moon and Richard Nixon is sworn in as president. Cayman Islands population was around 10,000 and Cayman Airways had only started the previous year.
Mamby is a Vietnam vet. The New Yorker hadn’t fought since 2000. He came out of retirement “because it is something I love doing” he said and took on 32–year–old Jamaican Anthony Osbourne, someone young enough to be his son. New York–based Osbourne had only won six out of 32 previous bouts.
It went the full 10 rounds only because Osbourne treated Mamby with the utmost respect and didn’t have the heart to knock him out. At the end of some rounds, one wag in the crowd shouted: “Well done, grandpa!”
“I wanted Saoul to end the fight with dignity, on his feet,” Osbourne said.
Well he certainly did that and got a rousing ovation from the crowd.
Mamby was reluctant to agree not to fight again. Yet he is unsteady on his feet, slurs his speech and fought like the old man he is and was fortunate that Osbourne showed compassion. For his own sake he should be consigned from the ring now for ever. No boxing commission should give him a license to fight again. He has nothing left to prove. Hopefully, this was his 85th – and last – ‘contest’."
Lumper- Here in Caymans we read your site. We like the slur speech, brain damaged guys as much as you do. We want MORE! Peition the States to keep him boxin. We love him & you!
Ian Goldworthy-Blue
Opposite L3 I am taking Pacquaio by TKO in 6! What does Larry know anyway he get like 3 fights a year right!
Bika fight is going to be a tough call as most of his fights will be...He is a straight brawler not a boxer as we all saw in the contender, he will be throwing bombs all night long if it goes anything like I predict.
60yrs Old and still fighting God Bless him...Then again I just saw a video from the UK of a 101 years old training for the London Marathon....Would you pay to see two old farts fight on PPV Larry?
Willy rollin' on L3's business trip for moral support. You know he can't sleep without his wooby!
Willy Out!
Moose goes to 18-1:
"One way to avoid controversy on the scorecards is to get rid of your opponent as early as possible. Unbeaten junior lightweight prospect Brandon Rios managed just that, dominating Alvin Brown en route to a second round knockout in the televised co-feature.
Rios was in total control from the opening bell, with Brown unable to get anything going in the brief encounter. A right hand to the body had Brown momentarily frozen late in the first round, but the journeyman was able to survive the round.
Not the case in round two, when Rios landed a left-hook, straight right combination that sent Brown to the canvas for the full ten count.
Official time was 1:10 of round two.
Rios improves to 16-0 (11KO), scoring his first knockout in 18 months, with his last three bouts going the distance. The bout was his first in eight months, though the buzz surrounding the 21-year old is an active campaigned for 2008.
Brown is on the opposite end of the spectrum. At age 38 and fighting for just the first time in 15 months, one has to wonder what the Kansas City journeyman has left to offer the sport. The loss is his third straight, all by knockout, with his last win coming more than two years ago as he falls to 26-11 (12KO). Retirement would appear to be the next logical step, though he was already there before accepting assignment for this fight."
Good pick-ups here with subscribers winning on all counts. The "freeze" was a brain freeze; brief coma as decided by the Doc which usually pays off at well-over 100-1. Big timne drooling action here too along with the usual dump streaks down the flabby cracks. Good to get one back here.
This Lumpy-Moose combo hit the jackpot for me tonight in Cicero. I saw the action live and this one was like pickin' cherries off them trees. As we say in sales, low hanging fruit. The dazed stupor by the old man gave me $6,000 on a $75bet. Picked up another $900 on green fluids and the brown stains (one which dripped on the ring floor but my book wouldn't pay off on diarreah, the low-life). Hey, a good night all-around. Thanks guys!
I bet Rios to win because that's what my mama told me my father's name was even though my father was her father. No difference, all my friends have the same mama and its mine, i think. In Peru, we all love each other. I win on Rios bekause of you.
I win here at this sites. The Moose makes me money & I went with the Mr. Lumplump for "Pacquaio winner by decision."
You persons are the best with your picks. tHank you Lumpymoose people!
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