Classic Lump Wednesday-The Mayweather Family Soap Opera continues..

Happy Lump Day from your Boy L3!
So as we all wait in "anticipation" for this weekends BIG De La Hoya fight (you smellin the sarcasm here?), I thought we would give you one of Oscar's better moments. I mean it's only fair since last weeks Classic Lump had him on the receiving end of a brutal Hopkins liver shot.
Before we get to that, lets talk about the real drama taking place during this weekends fight, the Mayweather brothers. These guys make the Adam's Family look normal. OK try and follow me here. Floyd Mayweather Sr. was the trainer for both his son and Oscar. He had to make a decision to pick a fighter when they both fought and he picked Oscar. Oscar felt uncomfortable with using his opponents dad as a trainer (small conflict of interest don't you think) so he went with Freddy Roach. So Floyd Sr. goes back to his son's corner and co-trains him with his brother Roger Mayweather. Floyd Sr & Jr. have a falling out and Sr. gets bumped from the training camp. So Floyd Sr. sits in the stands for the Mayweather/De La Hoya fight and roots for Oscar.
With me so far?
So now Oscar De La Hoya is fighting Steve Forbes this weekend. Floyd Sr. is back in the corner of Oscar, and Steve Forbes trainer is Roger Mayweather who has trained him in the past, but......
Floyd Jr. does not like the fact that Roger is training Steve Forbes, because if Steve wins it is going to ruin a huge payday for Floyd in the fall when he is supposed to meet Oscar for a rematch. Basically if Uncle Roger's fighter wins, Floyd can't feed his kids.
Sooo, Roger agrees to step down but Forbes still wants a Mayweather as a trainer so he hires the THIRD brother Jeff Mayweather, who is the more quiet laid back one of the group. As sand falls through the hour glass these are the wacky days of our lives...

OK so back to the Classic Lump, De La Hoya vs. Ricardo Mayorga. Mayorga talked so much smack before this fight. No one in De La Hoya's family was safe from his wrath. Trying to get into Oscar's head did not work though as you can see from the following clip.

Weekend Boxing Results

Monday's blow don't they? Especially when its almost May but you wake up to a 47 degree miserable rainy day. Wahh!
OK tantrum done. I really don't have much to say today. I watched the HBO show Countdown to De Lay Hoya Forbes. I will yap more about this fight on Friday but HBO is trying to make a big fight out of nothing. This one is gonna be a bust.

Here are your weekend fight results.
Saturday
DRESDEN, Germany (AP)—Zsolt Erdei, Germany, outpointed DeAndrey Abron, Youngstown, Ohio, 12, to retain his WBO light heavyweight title; Sergiy Dzindziruk, Germany, outpointed Lukas Konecny, Germany, 12, to retain his WBO junior middleweight title; Karoly Balzsay, Hungary, stopped Mantas Tarvydas, Lithuania, 10, to retain his WBO Intercontinental super middleweight title; Willy Blain, France, oupointed Daudy Bahari, Indonesia, 12, to retain his WBO Intercontinental light welterweight title.
QUERETARO, Mexico (AP)—Bernabe Concepcion, Philippines, stopped Torrence Daniels, Denver, 2, to retain his NABF super bantamweight title; Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., Mexico, stopped Giuseppe Loriga, Italy, 9, super welterweights; Orlando Salido, Mexico, stopped Renan Acosta, Panama, 4, featherweights.
TRABZON, Turkey (AP)—Selcuk Aydin, Turkey, outpointed Lucky Lewele, South Africa, 12, to win the vacant WBC International welterweight title.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP)—Roy Mukhlis, Indonesia, stopped Pathompol Srisopha, Thailand, to retain his PABA super featherweight title.
Sunday
CHESTER, W.Va. (AP)—Brian Minto, Butler, Pa., stopped Chad Van Sickle, Grove City, Ohio, 1, heavyweights; Verquan Kimbrough, Pittsburgh, outpointed Rodney Jones, Little Rock, Ark., 10, to win the vacant NABA lightweight title.

Weekend Boxing Schedule-Mike Tyson Making Comeback??

Nahh just playing, Mike ain't doing squat. But next Tuesday at 7pm (EST) on ESPN they are catching up with the former champ, seems like from the previews that Mikey T still got major issues. Not too pumped up for this weekend's schedule however Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. is fighting. This kid is good, real good. I hope he puts on a few more pounds and steps up to fight a big name middleweight. The kid is 35-0-1, I think it's time to go for a title. Anyways have a lumpy weekend and keep your ass off da canvas!

L Cubed is out

Boxing:
TODAY - New York (ESPN2) - 10 rounds, junior middleweights: Andrey Tsurkan (25-3, 16 KOs)
vs. Jesse Feliciano (15-6-3, 9 KOs).
SATURDAY - at Dresden, Germany -12 rounds, light heavyweights: Zsolt Erdei (28-0, 17 KOs) vs. DeAndrey Abron 15-1, 10 KOs); 12 rounds, junior middleweights: Sergiy Dzinziruk (34-0, 22 KOs) vs. Lukas Konecny (36-2, 18 KOs); 12 rounds, junior welterweights: Daudy Bahari (36-1-1, 18 KOs) vs. Willy Blain (18-0, 3 KOs).
SATURDAY - at Queretaro, Mexico (PPV) - 12 rounds, light middleweights: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (35-0-1, 28 KOs) vs. Tobia Giuseppe Loriga (24-0-1, 6 KOs); 12 rounds, super bantamweights: Bernabe Concepcion
(24-1-1, 13 KOs) vs. Torrence Daniels (10-3-1, 4 KOs).

Classic Lump Wednesday-Tribute to a Legend who should hang up the gloves

Beautiful day in sunny CT. So this week's classic lump is in tribute to Bernard Hopkins. The man has nothing left to prove, he was a middleweight champ for 10 friggin years! Sadly he probably won't shut it down, but hopefully his does. Let's be honest, he might even win a few more but his fights are never going to be on PPV again, his style is just so not fan friendly. One punch, clinch, one punch, clinch, and he really does not knock anyone out.
However no one can argue about his boxing reign. Just check it out here for yourself.
Before I get to the video highlight I wanted to let you know about some great Amateur boxing coming up to Bridgeport, CT on May 9th, the USA Boxing Olympic Invitational. I saw some fights up there last year and Harbor Yard is a great place to see dukes.

OK so here we go. This punch doesn't look like much but it was a perfectly placed liver shot. Your mind wants to get up off the canvas but your legs have absolutely no interest. You can totally see the frustration in De La Hoya's eyes.

Weekend Wrap Up-Your Boy is Back

To all you cats who were bustin my chops when I started this blog about my picks....BITE ME.
Your boy has been En Fuego lately. Not only pickin the winners but picking the exact outcomes.
Between me and the Moose you guys should be getting paid in full if you follow our advice!
Let me tell you the first 6 rounds of that Calzaghe/Hopkins fight was a bitch to score but by the end of the fight Mighty Joe was the clear cut winner. You had Hopkins charge in with one big punch then clinch and you had Joe land 4-5 pitter patter combos. Hopkins scored a flash knockdown in the first but after that no one was really hurt. Listen, it wasn't a pretty win for Calzaghe but fights against Hopkins are never pretty. Looking forward to a Joe C. to fight a Pavlik or Jones Jr. next.

I missed the UFC event on Saturday night but I did snag the Georges St. Pierre/Matt Serra fight on YouTube the next morning. Boring grappling fight but St. Pierre controlled the whole fight. Here are the rest of the weekend fight results:

Boxing:
LAS VEGAS (AP)—Joe Calzaghe, Britain, outpointed Bernard Hopkins, Philadelphia, 12, light heavyweights; David Lopez, Mexico, stopped Ryan Davis, East St. Louis, Ill., 5, middleweights.
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP)—Adrian Diaconu, Romania, outpointed Chris Henry, Houston, 12, to win the interim WBC light heavyweight title; Jo Jo Dan, Romania, stopped Raul Balbi, Argentina, 3, to retain his NABA light welterweight title; Viorel Simion, Romania, outpointed Rudy Encarnacion, Spain, 10, to win the WBC Mediterranean featherweight title.
KATOWICE, Poland (AP)—Tomasz Adamek, Poland, stopped O’Neil Bell, Jamaica, 8, in an IBF cruiserweight title eliminator.
MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP)—Sebastian Zbik, Germany, outpointed Marco Schulze, Germany, 12, to retain his WBO Intercontinental middleweight title; Rene Marcos Maidana, Argentina, stopped Arturo Morua, Mexico, 3, light welterweights.
FREDERIKSUND, Denmark (AP)—Evans Ashira, Kenya, stopped Mamadou Thiam, France 6, to win the vacant Universal Boxing Organization Intercontinental light middleweight title.
KIEV, Ukraine (AP)—Yuri Nuzhnenko, Ukraine, technical drawed Irving Garcia, Puerto Rico, 10, to retain his interim WBA welterweight title.

MMA:
UFC 83, Montreal: Jonathan Goulet def. Kuniyoshi Hironaka, TKO (strikes), 2:07 R2; Cain Valesquez def. Brad Morris, TKO (strikes), 2:10 R1; Rich Clementi def. Sam Stout, split decision; Demian Maia def. Ed Herman, submission (triangle choke), 2:27 R2; Jason Day def. Alan Belcher, TKO (strikes), 3:58 R1; Jason MacDonald def. Joe Doerksen, TKO (elbows), 0;54 R2; Mac Danzig def. Mark Bocek, submission (rear naked choke), 3:48 R3; Michael Bisping def. Charles McCarthy, TKO (fighter could not continue at end of round), 5:00 R1; Nate Quarry def. Kalib Starnes, unanimous decision; Rich Franklin def. Travis Lutter, TKO (strikes), 3:01 R2; UFC welterweight title: Georges St. Pierre def. Matt Serra, TKO (strikes), 4:45 R2 (St. Pierre wins title).

Hopkins vs. Calzaghe quick pick

OK your boy is back in town and was not going to post until Monday, but screw it, let's roll the dice. I picked against him once, not doing it again, Calzaghe by decision.

That's all I'm sayin'. Will check back wit ya on Monday with a full post.

Peace

Cotto wins by TKO, another Contender get's destroyed, it's deja vu all over again

Well if you watched the Larry Lump/Moose interview on Friday you would of known that Cotto by TKO was a lock. The fight went EXACTLY as L Cubed Predicted. By the end of the 5th the ringside Doc had enough and stopped the fight. Cotto TKO in 5. Also, past BUMPnLUMP readers will also recall this post a while back: http://www.bumpnlump.com/2008/01/easy-call-for-larry-lumpthe-contender.html

So congrats Alfonso Gomez you have also made the list of Pretenders. Shall I refresh your memory on the results of fighters from the Contender TV showed when they stepped up to top 10 fighters?

1. Peter Manfredo Jr.-TKO'ed by Joe Calzaghe in 3.
2. Anthony Bosante-Lost by Unanimous decision to John Duddy
3. David Banks- Almost gets decapitated and lands in the second row after being KO'ed by Edison Miranda in the 3rd.
4. Alfonso Gomez-TKO'ed by Miguel Cotto in the 5th

Enough is enough already, these guys have not made it to the big time for a reason, they're not that good!

OK so the Moose Man had it a little harder this weekend. His boy Phlegm..oops I mean Glen Johnson fought pretty good even though he lost a 12 round decision to Chad Dawson. However the crowd was booing the result so it seems like some controversy took place. If you recall Da Moose said three bodily fluids would of been release by Johnson. It's very hard to confirm these facts because mainstream media tends to shy away from this kind of business, but I would not be surprised if Glen was able to keep his bowels under control.

Well, heading out to FLA tomorrow but I just needed to gloat before I hit the friendly skies. Have a good week my Lumpy Posse!!!