One more wrastlin' Classic Lump

So yesterday I said adios to wrestling on BUMPnLUMP. Well lets send em out in style with a tribute to one of the most insane wrestlers I have ever seen, Mick Foley, aka Mankind, aka Cactus Jack, aka Dude Love. How he is still alive and has full movement of all his limbs boggles my mind. Say whatever you want about wrestling being fake, but getting thrown off cages 50 feet up in the air hurts anyway you look at it (especially when you land on hundreds of thumbtacks). Enjoy the hardcore legend. And yes that is his tooth sticking out of his nose.

Weekend Boxing/MMA results and Pro Wrestling is down for the count

Happy MLK, and that doesn't stand for Mauls, Lumps, and Knockouts!
Your boy Larry is mentally drained from the amazing Giants victory last night so all I am giving you today is weekend results. Oh and one more thing, Larry Lump has come to the conclusion he no longer has the rights to include Pro Wrestling on BUMPnLUMP. To be honest I just don't follow it anymore, the days of Sergeant Slaughter, Iron Sheik, and Bob Backlund are long gone. I will leave it up to the young'uns. So there ya have it, go back to doing nothing today peeps.
Catch you tomorrow with a phat Classic Lump.

Boxing Results:
NEW YORK (AP) -- Roy Jones Jr., Pensacola, Fla., outpointed Felix Trinidad, Puerto Rico, 12, light heavyweights; Andrew Golota, Poland, outpointed Mike Mollo, Oak Lawn, Ill., 12, heavyweights; Alex Bunema, Congo, stopped Roman Karmazin, Russia, 10, junior middleweights; Devon Alexander, St. Louis, outpointed DeMarcus Corley, Washington, 12, junior welterweights; Luis Collazo, Queens, N.Y., outpointed Edvan Dos Santos Barros, Brazil, 10, welterweights.
DUSSELDORF, Germany (AP) -- Ruslan Chagaev, Germany, outpointed Matt Skelton, Britain, 12, to retain his WBA heavyweight title; Taras Bidenko, Ukraine, outpointed Cisse Salif, Mali, to retain his WBA Inter-Continental heavyweight title.
RAMA, Ontario (AP) -- Steve Molitor, Canada, outpointed Ricardo Castillo, Mexico, 12, to retain his IBF super bantamweight title.

MMA Results:
Saturday, Jan. 19
UFC 80, Newcastle, England: Sam Stout def. Per Eklund, unanimous decision; Alessio Sakara def. James Lee, TKO 1:30 R1; Paul Kelly def. Paul Taylor, unanimous decision; Antoni Hardonk def. Colin Robinson, TKO 0:17 R1; Jorge Rivera def. Kendall Grove, TKO 1:20 R1; Wilson Gouveia def. Jason Lambert, KO (punch) 0:37 R2; Marcus Davis def. Jess Liuadin, KO (punch) 1:04 R1; Fabricio Werdum def. Gabriel Gonzaga, TKO 4:34 R2; UFC lightweight title: B.J. Penn def. Joe Stevenson, submission (rear naked choke), 4:02 R2 (Penn wins vacant title).

Jones-Trinidad and the winner is...

Jones by unanimous decision. Hmmm didn't Larry's post on Friday start with the exact same words? Your boy Larry called it perfectly the last two weeks, not only calling out the winner but calling out the way the victory was going to go down. Yes I ain't gonna lie, when I started the blog my first few picks were just a tad off. But now both Stella and Larry got their grooves back. As for the fight, Jones actually gave away the first 3 rounds to Tito and I was telling myself this guy better pick up the pace otherwise he is going to get outpointed. Little by little Jones did that as he picked his punches and began to land more and more. By the late rounds it was easy pickins and he put Tito on his ass in the 7th and the 10th. Trinidad is done, adios hermano. However Jones looked pretty good (but was it only because he was against a second level opponent)? Well his next fight will probably be for a championship or against a number 1 contender. Guess we will find out then.
As for the undercard it pretty much blew until the Golota-Molla heavyweight fight. This one was pretty entertaining but it sure didn't win any style points with a ton of flailing punches and clinches. Molla was the much smaller but faster guy in the beginning rounds and his wild man style was somewhat effective until he blew his load by the 6th. I have no clue how this fight went the full 12, Molla was spent, half the time he was using Golota to keep him up. I got to give credit to big Andrew because his left eye closed up 100% in about the 6th round. If you did not see it there are two ways to explain it. Think back to Rocky 1 and remember how his eyes looked by the end of the Creed fight? Got that visual, good, cause it looked even worse than that. The other way to explain it is a little grosser but think of a certain female part of the anatomy (in a horizontal position). This thing was closed shut. But the bil ol' Pole did not quit and scored the unanimous decision. Unreal as it may seem Golota might be in line for ANOTHER shot at a title.

Have a good weekend boys and girls. That's all I wanted to yap about this Sunday. Oh one more thing...GO GIANTS!!!

Weekend Fight Schedule plus the winner of Jones Jr. vs. Trinidad is.....

Jones Jr. by unanimous decision. Case closed. Tito has been dormant for over 2 1/2 years (and he lost that fight back in 05). At least Jones has been semi active and I still feel his speed will overwhelm Tito. Listen, this fight is a joke, it has no real implication in their weight class. No matter what these cats tell you it is definitely a one and done for the loser, and probably one more fight after this for the winner. Both these guys are calling out opponents that they should of been fighting years ago. Let's hope for an entertaining brawl at least. The under card is not too shabby on this one. Cory Spinks and Andrew Golota will be fighting as well.

Let's not forget that the WBA heavyweight title is also on the line this weekend in Germany. Hey Moose who you like in this one and why, the champ Chagaev or the challenger Skelton?
Can't wait to hear what da Moose man thinks.

If you want to check some MMA action, BJ Penn vs. Joe Stevenson fight is also on PPV on Saturday night as well.

Busy weekend in the fight game, 2008 is officially underway!
Have a good one Lumpee's. L3 is out.

Weekend Boxing Schedule:
TODAY - at Key West, Florida (ESPN2) - 10 rounds,middleweights: Raymond Joval (37-4, 16 KOs)vs. Tarvis Simms (21-0-1, 11 KOs); 10 rounds, junior welterweights: Randall Bailey (35-6, 32 KOs) vs.Anthony Mora (15-1, 10 KOs).
TODAY - at Brownsville, Texas (Telefutura) - 10 rounds,welterweights: Jesus Soto Karass (18-3-3, 14 KOs) vs.Germaine Sanders (27-4, 17 KOs).
SATURDAY - at Dusseldorf, Germany - 12 rounds,WBA heavyweight title: Ruslan Chagaev(23-0-1, 17 KOs) vs. Matt Skelton (21-1, 18 KOs);12 rounds, heavyweights: Taras Bidenko (24-2, 12 KOs)vs. Cisse Salif (22-8-2, 20 KOs).
SATURDAY - at Ontario, Canada - 12 rounds,IBF super bantamweight title: Steve Molitor(25-0, 10 KOs) vs. Ricardo Castillo (33-4, 22 KOs).
SATURDAY - New York (HBO PPV) - 12 rounds,light heavyweights: Roy Jones Jr. (51-4, 38 KOs) vs.Felix Trinidad (42-2, 35 KOs); 12 rounds, IBF light middleweight title: Cory Spinks (36-4, 11 KOs) vs.Verno Phillips (41-10-1, 21 KOs); 12 rounds, heavyweights:Andrew Golota (40-6-1, 33 KOs) vs. Mike Mollo (19-1, 12 KOs);12 rounds, light middleweights: Roman Karmazin(36-2-1, 23 KOs) vs. Alex Bunema (28-5-2, 14 KOs);10 rounds, junior welterweights: Devon Alexander(13-0, 8 KOs) vs. Miguel Callist (24-6-1, 17 KOs).

MMA Events:
Saturday, Jan. 19
UFC 80: B.J. Penn vs. Joe Stevenson; Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Fabricio Werdum, Newcastle, England (PPV)

In this Corner with Willy Lump

Jones & Tito this weekend the short & sweet!
All the hype is about Jones Jr & Trinidad….I will not draw this out, the “W” goes to Jones Jr by KO in max 5 rounds…
Even at Roy's ripe old age, Trinidad cannot match his speed and power. Enough Said.
I am already on to February and the more competitive fights on the horizon…
2/2 - Oleg Maskaev vs. Samuel Peter
2/16 - Kelly Pavlik vs. Jermain Taylor
2/23 - Wladimir Klitschko vs. Sultan Ibragimov
February is turning out to be the month to be watched in the fight game.
On another note…possible fight on the horizon
Mayweather vs De La Hoya, fight that needs to happen. I still feel like this fight should have been a draw, but again this fight needs to happen and it looks like it’s a go.
Hopkins vs Calzaghe – I would like to see this one happen although to me I feel that Hopkins is not fighting for the sport but for the money because he can.

Willy Out!

Classic Lump-Tito's Turn

What up kiddies? Well last week we highlighted Roy Jones Jr. so this week Trinidad is up.
We are going to go back, waay back to the year 2000. Round 12 Felix Trinidad vs. Fernando Vargas. On another note I just read that Trinidad is already looking past Roy Jones and calling out Joe Calzaghe. Basta Basta Felix, slow your roll and TRY to take care of business on Saturday night first Hesse.

Easy call for Larry Lump/The Contender series is going to get someone killed

Whats up LumpLand? Well the guarantee came through, Edison Miranda not only KO'ed David Banks, he almost knocked him into the third row. It's already a candidate for KO of the year. If you have not seen it yet go to YouTube now before it gets taken down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KcMw4wYgsw
Banks was asleep before he even landed. I got to tell you, this is the third Edison Miranda fight I have seen and even though he lost one of them to Pavlik, all his fights are exciting. He is kind of like a mini Tyson, there is rarely going to be a draw in any of his fights. I look forward to seeing him step up to a top level opponent.
I also saw the Sergio Mora fight. Once again not impressed by Mora even though he won by TKO. It was a VERY controversial stoppage, way too early. The other guy was not hurt, and Mora was behind on two scorecards. So once again Mora skates though a lower level opponent and pads his record.

Which brings me to the my next point. For the most part the TV show The Contender has only brought us a bunch of Pretenders, not only that, they are putting some of these guys into fights where they have no business being in, and someone is going to get hurt. Other than Alfonso Gomez from season 1 none of these guys have done anything.

Let's look at a few of the winners and finalists and what they have done when they faced champions or "real" contenders:
Season 1 Contenders

1: Sergio Mora: turned down a title fight against Jermain Taylor, pulled out of a fight against Kassim Ouma, and won this weekends fight on a shady early stoppage (and was behind on 2 of the 3 judges scorecards)

2: Peter Manfredo: Lost to Gomez during the show but was invited back because another contestant got the chickenpox. Lost twice to Sergio Mora. Somehow gets a title fight with Joe Calzaghe and gets destroyed by TKO in only 3 rounds. Lost just a few months ago to Jeff Lacy. During this time he beat a few chooches, but when it was time to step up he lost every one.

Anthony Bonsante: Lost to Allen Green and to John Duddy.

3. Joey Gilbert: Suspended by Nevada Athletic Commission due to positive steroid test.

Season 2:

Winner Grady Brewer has not fought since the TV show ended.

Season 3:

David Banks: See above

I will admit that the final fight between Jaidon Codrington and Sakio Bika was an instant classic but both of them got hit by so many shots I have a feeling they will get destroyed by any current champs or top contenders. Knowing ESPN though they will play up The Contender popularity again and put them up against someone way above their skill level.

After David Banks almost got decapitated hopefully ESPN and boxing promoters will wake up and not put these Pretenders in against top level competition.