RIP Johnny Bumphus

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  1. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Saintpat, Feb 4, 2020
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  2. Eye of Timaeus

    Eye of Timaeus Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Damn that's two champions gone this year already.
     
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    mrkoolkevin Never wrestle with pigs or argue with fools Full Member

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    RIP Bump City
     
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  4. Fergy

    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

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    This is getting ridiculous now, the amount of guys in boxing that have had untimely deaths. I reckon there's only wrestling that seems to top it!
     
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    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    RIP. One of T-Town's finest.
     
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    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    RIP
     
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  7. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    A shame

    In the UK we got to see Bumphus on prime time BBC fight Honeyghan. And for added value, Lou Duva was a little wound up!
     
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  8. Ken Ashcroft

    Ken Ashcroft Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I remember seeing Bumphus on the cover of Ring Magazine back around 1984. He was the newly crowned WBA light welterweight champion and appear on the cover alongside his childhood friend, Rocky Lockridge who had also won a WBA Super Featherweight title around the same time. Sitting proudly between them was their manager/trainer, Lou Duva.

    Now all three are gone. Duva passed away in 2017, Lockridge almost exactly a year ago and now Bumphus. The time just seems to have flown by since they appeared together on that Ring Magazine cover. :confundio1:
     
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    joebeadg Well-Known Member Full Member

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    what the hell is bump city??? I always wondered that, I wasn't really a big fan, but much respect! Shame, so young
     
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    Saad54 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    An alarming number of 80 s boxers are dropping lately. Bumphus made it to 60 years old. Many didn't make it that far.
     
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    You know. "Do you want to do a bump!" Classic ending to ALL Lou Duva Tomorrows Champion fighters.
     
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    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    His last name was BUMP-hus ....so he could take you to “Bump City “if you stepped in the ring
     
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  13. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    You could not handle Bump city. Bump city was too hot for you!

    In context, that was Bump city...
     
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  14. Stevie G

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    RIP.
     
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    Rip Johnny
     
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