Lolenga "The Whiz Kid (Lumumba Boy)" Mock

IntentionalButt · Jan 4, 2018

Mock 165½lb, Chudinov 167¾lb

UnleashtheFURY · Jan 4, 2018

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What a wild career this guy has so far had (and continues to have).

He began with a six year campaign barnstorming across the Dark Continent and grinding out victories - mostly on points - over inexperienced middleweights, presumably the big-fish-in-a-small-pond "tough guys" of their respective villages, in his native East Congo (then called Zaire - for his entire undefeated run, ceasing to exist just prior to his first pro loss) as well as Tanzania, Kenya, Côte D’Ivoire & Uganda. He scored just four knockouts in these first seventeen contests, and three of them were in the deeper waters of rounds 5-10. A shocking number of these early career bouts were scheduled for - and largely went - 8 or even 10 rounds. In fact, his sophomore effort was a scheduled 10-rounder, and he scored a KO in the 6th. Another interesting tidbit about this period is that more than half of his first seventeen opponents were making their pro debuts when he fought them. Nine of seventeen.

Then, in his eighteenth try, he was bested, his second time in Tanzania, challenging for the African Boxing Union super middleweight title and taking a big step up in class in his first scheduled 12-rounder. He was defeated by Joseph Marwa, the barrel-chested, thick-necked, slow-and-steadily methodical and jab-happy incumbent champ from Zanzibar.

Mock then dialed it back and tried for lower-hanging fruit, and in his very next outing a few months later captured the more regionally specific "Eastern & Central African" title at 168lbs. Inexplicably, his opponent Lucas Omondi was allowed to compete for this despite coming off an 0-3-1 career start and then scoring his first professional victory over a guy making his debut.

The celebratory mood would not last very long, as Mock would go 3-5-1 in his next eight. The last two losses in this slump, however, would see his first taste of intercontinental travel, losing decisions in Denmark and Germany, and both to unbeaten prospects with some money and hype behind them. So he was graduating from provincial can-crusher (or rather "One upon whom you can rely to outpoint and occasionally crush tomato cans") to a boutique jobber abroad.

Then, in his 29th match, he jumped to cruiser and headed to Berkshire in the UK, taking on a young man in his 6th pro match. The young man in question, brash and corn-rowed, was none other than Bermondsey's own "former model & nightclubbing playboy", David Haye. Mock was stopped for the first (and to date only) time in his career, but in the process he dealt out the first knockdown Haye would ever suffer professionally. Mock showed a legendary chin, while exposing some nascent fissures in the ultimately far more famous Brit's, and was only thwarted via rather questionable referee intervention helping give rise to a bit of popular internet forum slang: the "British stoppage". This match predated Calzaghe vs. Manfredo, which saw the already-extant phrase more widely popularized, by four years.

For a while that was Mock's biggest claim to fame - an entertaining war in a respectable loss to a future champ. He remained more or less a footnote in David Haye's storybook, from the latter's salad days - even though he also fought admirably in a light heavyweight return one year later with Mario Veit in the German's backyard & then somewhat less competitively with Canadian matinee idol Lucian Bute in his own (but still proving durable and making Bute work for it, acquitting himself well), and rattled off a few notable upsets: over Giovanni Alvarez for a now-defunct version of the European title at 175lbs, then over former IBF world titlist Charles "The Hatchet" Brewer at super middle.

(By this point Mock has, for whatever reason, taken up permanent residency in Denmark, eventually gaining full citizenship there, and picked up a secondary ring moniker. He is now also known as "The Dane", even though he is a bit less pale than, say, Mikkel Kessler, or how one envisions the Vikings' modern descendants on average...)

Then it gets interesting. 17 years since his pro campaign began, and zeroing in on his 36th birthday (and thus his late thirties), he starts this really nice run of form. He upsets 13-0 Senegalese-Italian prospect Mouhamed Ali Ndiaye, who then spent the next seven years in the heat of the European title picture. He suffers a robbery loss (at home, no less) to 16-2 future world champion Gabriel Campillo, despite hurting and dropping the Spaniard and setting him on his bike for much of the night. El Chico Guapo would springboard directly into his WBA light heavyweight title capture in his next match, just three months later. Mock then scores two more upsets, both over Italians, capturing and defending the EBU-EU SMW title versus 16-2 future world title challenger Giovanni De Carolis and 40-3-1 perennial Euro contender and workhorse Lorenzo Di Giacomo.

Then, yet another robbery, this one in Rzeszów, Poland. He decked local favorite Dawid Kostecki hard with a headsman's-ax right hand, and physically dominated him the rest of the way despite having a cut and swollen eye, and still came up empty-handed. Lo and behold, two of the judges were Polish and had it remarkably wide.

Oh well, back to work. Mock immediately jumped into the ring once more to upset 13-1-1 Patrick Dobroschi, again in his opponent's backyard in Düsseldorf. Dobroschi was a former camp mate, when both sparred for a time with Felix Sturm to help prep him for Lorenzo, Hearns & Macklin (if not more). Mock was familiar enough with Dobroschi to lay a severe beating on him, such that Dobroschi has to date never fought again.

Now for a battle at home (Denmark, not Congo) with his adopted land's homegrown up-and-coming star, Erik Skoglund. Inevitably, the 41-year-old lost a unanimous decision, but gave his talented rival and compatriot a tough melee in a highly educational first-ever 12-rounder for Skoglund - whom, btw, Mock knocked down.

After that, you might expect Mock to have packed up and retired. It was, by and by, 22 years since he debuted and the solid job done in the Skoglund loss was plenty to be proud of and made for a nice torch-passing as well as sort of a microcosm of his career path (falling short versus the elite but gaining respect from all corners). You'd think he would call it a day. And so he did.

Until he changed his mind, returning 2 years and 2 months later to upset 11-0 Italian prospect Alessandro Sinacore. This began a still-going 10-0 streak in the nearly two years since, and before it hits two full calendar years he is hoping to make it an 11-0 streak by putting a nice big plume in his cap with Dmitry Chudinov. Before you let out too low a whistle in thinking he's surely taking on too much of a leap in class from whatever bums he was feasting on in the aforementioned 10 - no, it (mostly) hasn't been a bum tour. At the age of 45, he, somehow, is still pounding out decisions (and one kayo, versus obscure Jorge Silva of Portugal) over decent journeymen and fringe contenders. Look at the list of names Mock has fought; if you know the super middleweight division well, you know these are meaningful victories, especially for a man of his advanced years - and to say nothing of the rigor of the schedule itself! He fought six times in 2016...in his mid-forties!

The fact that Mock is a viable opponent for 20-1-2 former interim WBA champ Night Wolf (half of the widely touted Chudinov brothers who lit up the amateur ranks and not that long ago were expected by many experts to co-reign as elite champs in the pros) a month from now is absolutely mental. The fact that I don't think he should even be all that much of an underdog means I should probably be institutionalized - but I don't think I'm wrong. The strong and skillful 31-year-old Russian, who is often criticized for being too single-geared, is capable of being drawn into a slogging brawl. This is guaranteed to last the fully scheduled ten frames, as neither Mock nor Chudinov has a big enough punch to bypass the other's main line of defense: both have incredible chins. For all ten of those frames, judges will be seeing a lot of leather thrown & landed in both directions, while listening to a partisan crowd in Cøpenhagen roar every time Mock so much as twitch-feints. It wouldn't be the greatest shock of all time if the ancient Congolese veteran managed to put this enormously prestigious notch in his belt, in his 57th bout and 26½ years deep. I'm half-expecting to see him eke out a MD or SD, actually.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR MOCK!
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Great post. I love characters like him in boxing. Every bit as interesting as the world champions that most worship. The sport is built on the backs of guys like this.

Elvizzz · Jan 4, 2018

Mock is in good shape!! Hope he gets a W

JordanK2406 · Jan 4, 2018

When’s this fight on?

james5000 · Jan 4, 2018

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IntentionalButt · Jan 4, 2018

Ooh, might have to lay a smackerel on Mock just on principle.

Farmboxer · Jan 4, 2018

Don't Mock Mock........................he is a live underdog.............

Spadafora · Jan 4, 2018

I basically just can’t wait to see Mock once again make his very slow ring walk. He always walks so extremely slow, and it takes him forever to get up there, because he prefers to hear the rest of the song.

Exemplified here when he was still virtually unknown to the Danish audience. Picked as an opponent for the promoters own fighter:

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With the sun glasses on. And with the leopard skin around his shorts. From the leopard that he had to kill with a spear at the age of 18 as a coming-of-age ritual.

And here is the knock out in that specific fight:

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Before this he was invited to fight cruiserweights in Denmark, even though he is a natural super middleweight. This was a light heavyweight bout and Alvarez was 15-1.

With this win Mock landed his first long term contract in Denmark (meaning more than one fight).

PS: He will be 46 in three months.

IntentionalButt · Jan 5, 2018

The card will begin to air in 2½ hours, main event probably in ~6½.

KiwiMan · Jan 5, 2018

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The card will begin to air in 2½ hours, main event probably in ~6½.
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6.5 hours from now is 1am Danish time .... surely it'll be earlier?

edit: I was wrong, it is 11pm!

IntentionalButt · Jan 5, 2018

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6.5 hours from now is 1am Danish time .... surely it'll be earlier?
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Mm, nope, current local time in Copenhagen is 4:43pm. They are GMT+1, so in 6.5 hours it will be about 11pm there.

KiwiMan · Jan 5, 2018

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Mm, nope, current local time in Copenhagen is 4:43pm. They are GMT+1, so in 6.5 hours it will be about 11pm there.
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Yes sorry, I got mucked up with GMT-1

IntentionalButt · Jan 5, 2018

Top of the hour.

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Chuck Norris · Jan 5, 2018

Hopefully this RBR is better than the Michael Hunter vs Oswaldo Ortega and Gianmarco Cardillo vs Ivan De Berardino ones.

IntentionalButt · Jan 5, 2018

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Hopefully this RBR is better than the Michael Hunter vs Oswaldo Ortega and Gianmarco Cardillo vs Ivan De Berardino ones.
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Hey, both times I put my best foot forward - only to have a goddamn bowling ball dropped on it by false promises from fickle broadcasters.

I'm fairly confident a Mogens Palle card will be televised, however. I'm not sure there has been one since before my parents were born that hasn't been.

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