EXCLUSIVE Q&A With Davone Bess

We recently got a chance to sit down with the second year stand out at wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins - Davone Bess.

In between surfing sessions in Hawaii as he unwinds before reporting back to Davie for the start of training camp, Davone was kind enough to sit down with us and discuss last year's improbable rise up the depth chart and the team's improbable march to the playoffs and what we can expect this upcoming season.

I will be typing this blog LIVE as I speak with Davone, so please excuse any spelling or grammatical errors.

Let's begin:

Odin Gunderson: Hey Davone, glad we could catch up with you. How is Hawaii this time of year?

Davone Bess: A little bit cold, you know? The Eskimos are chill though. I been drinkin some Pepsi's and Coronas with them. They cool.

OG: Wait, you said you are in Hawaii? That doesn't...

DB: What? Do you know who you talkin to? This be Davone Bess. Davone knows Hawaii! Davone is KING of Hawaii. They call me King Comonaplayawanaleia and all the ladies be coming to my 'gloo for some action.

OG: Nice try Lambo... I have traced this call and will be sending this information to the proper authorities.

L_W: But this is Davone Bess. I promise. Please don't. I can prove it. I'll send you a picture of my hair. Come on man. Please? ****!

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My apologies, it appears that we have been had by an impostor once again. However, if you would like to read a REAL interview with the legit Davone Bess, simply follow this link to read his thoughts on the Dolphins shocking 2008 season and what 2009 might have in store:
Q&A with Davone Bess

Lambo_Weezy Impersonated Davone in REAL LIFE too!

Now that the Lambo_Weezy saga has reached a national audience, many people are coming forward with their experiences with the con artist formerly known as "Davone Bess AKA Lambo_Weezy". In one interesting account on BallerAlert.com, he mentions that Lambo had been using Bess' identity to frequent clubs in real life.

BallerAlert writes:

We kept in contact and just fell into the friendship zone. A couple weekends ago we hanged out at the club. Every one knew him by Devone the NFL player. So he did not just fool the bitches on twitter he fooled every one on South Beach! He was poping comped bottles and had all the groupies on his dick.

When confronted about his reasons for impersonating Davone, Lambo stated that his reasons for lying was that:

...everyone told him that he looked like Davone. So i am guessing he started believing he really was him.

You can read more about BallerAlert's run-in with the infamous Lambo_Weezy here.

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Davone Bess Speaks Out On Lambo_Weezy & More

The good guys over at Hawaii 1500, Rob & Russ, recently caught up with the real deal Davone Bess and managed to get his thoughts on a variety of topics including his recent victimization by the infamous Lambo_Weezy. Davone doesn't mince words when he discusses the case of Twitter identity fraud.

"It's very frustrating" Davone said. "I've worked very hard to get where I'm at and for this guy to go out of his way to put all this dirt on me, it really just bothers me. I'm not going to sugar coat it, it just bothers me. Because I never did nothing to nobody."

There are several other nuggets of information for Dolfans and Davone fans to enjoy during this interview, including how his new foray into boxing might help him during the upcoming season, his outlook on the 2009 season, and more.

Listen to the complete interview with the REAL Davone Bess

Guess Who's Back? The One and Only WEEZY Update!

Yes, the infamous Lambo_Weezy may be a thing of the past, and you would think with Davone Bess' team of lawyers on his ass, he would be running far, far away from Twitterland. But it seems our favorite Twitter impostor can't seem to stave off the allure of thousands of adoring "followers" following his every move.

So, Mr. Weezy has reincarnated as @The1andonly99. At this juncture, it is not known whether his username is foreshadowing that he will soon shave his head in hopes of impersonating a more famous member of the Miami Dolphins. (He couldn't possibly be that foolish, could he?)

Since he will surely take this profile down once he gets word that we are onto him, I will go ahead and post all the pictures so you can see our favorite impostor in all his glory one last time, for old time's sake.

"Sup. I'm not a Wide Receiver, but I play one on Twitter. Sex?"



"OMG! Davone Bess? Let's do it right now!" -Cool, lets head back to my crib. *minutes later* "WTF? Why are you driving a Pinto?" -"Oh, my Lambo is in the shop. Sorry." "Oh OK! I'm doing it with Davone Bess! DAVONE F***ING BESS!"


Below is the screencap that I took of his resurrected Twitter page:

Click for FULL SIZE

Rest in Peace, Lambo_Weezy. We hardly knew ye...

[NOTE: Thanks go out to Lord_Of_Miami at FH who sent me a link to his new Twitter.]

UPDATE: After investigating some more and following a link to one of the users Lambo communicated with in the above picture to Myspace, I was able to find that same user on Facebook. I looked through the user's 300 or so friends, but could not find someone who matched Lambo.

However, this is where it gets interesting, several of the user's facebook friends were current and former Miami Dolphins players. Players on this user's facebook friends list included OJ McDuffie, Kendall Langford, Troy Drayton, Louis Oliver, Devin Aromashodu, and Santonio Holmes. However, it is possible that this user is only friends with Lambo on Twitter because he still believes he is Davone Bess. It is also possible that this user does not know any of these players personally, and has only friended them on Facebook.

Lambo_Weezy Saga Goes National

I had promised that the Davone Bess VINDICATED post would be my last blog on the topic, but I didn't really anticipate the story going national. Well, it has, and Señor Weezy is in some serious trouble now. Perhaps this will be a message to all would-be future Twitter impostors, you fake, you pay. Props to Davone Bess for being so proactive in trying to clear his name of the sludge that the impostor had slathered all across his good name while using the popular social networking site.

You can follow the national coverage at the following links:

http://www.profootballtalk.com/2009/06/29/lambo_weezy-isnt-davone-bess/

http://blogs.nfl.com/2009/06/29/another-twitter-imposter/

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/9745904/NFL-looks-into-Dolphins-WR's-fake-Twitter-account

On the bright side for Lambo_Weezy, he might get a date afterall... A date in court.

Remember Lambo...

Davone Bess VINDICATED

And so it ends, with Davone Bess cleared of all charges of douchiness and virtual wrong-doing. Today, Dolphins Public Relations honcho Harvey Greene confirmed to ThePhinsider that the twitter account originally known as Lambo_Weezy (and all subsequent faux accounts) does NOT belong to Davone Bess - WR of the Miami Dolphins.

If you would like to follow the entire saga of the infamous Lambo, please click here.

The impostor had many of us fooled, including yours truly. He got real NFL players, models, party promoters, and even bloggers and reporters to believe he was the real Davone Bess, even though his antics appeared to be at odds with the personality of the Davone Bess Dolfans have come to know over the past year.

Please get the word out about the impostor so no one else can be conned into following the scumbag who was attempting to leech off of Davone's success.

Thanks for everyone's hard work in exposing the fraud. And hopefully this can be my FINAL time reporting on Twitter.

I am glad Davone Bess has finally been vindicated in this matter, as I and several others can remain one of his biggest fans. There is no way I could support a man of the character of "Lambo_Weezy", fortunately for us, the REAL Davone Bess is the antithesis of Lambo.

Now someone just needs to get his Ustream Account taken down!

UPDATE: Lambo_Weezy has returned to his original Twitter username, but has since removed any references to Davone Bess from his profile. Bookem Dan-O!

How the Miami Dolphins Can Thwart Future Twitter Impostors

In light of the entire "Lambo_Weezy" saga, it has become clear that it is incredibly easy for someone to tarnish the good name of a popular player. All it takes is for a person to convince one REAL NFL Twitter personality that he is the real player, and the masses will follow suit. This was the case of Lambo_Weezy's Davone Bess charade.

These impostors can be dangerous as well seeing as how if they go on unchecked, they can do a lot of harm to a player's image as some of their Twitter impostor's statements begin to make the rounds on message boards, blogs, and even news outlets.

In the case of Lambo_Weezy, he challenged the real Chris Johnson to a foot race (claiming he now ran a 4.2, sending thousands of dolfans' hearts a-twitter) and displayed a brash persona at odds with the humble personality that the real Davone Bess displayed throughout his playing career.

But that wasn't the worst of it. The impostor was seen on his ustream chats asking users to find him women with which he could fornicate with, which would be a problem, seeing as how Davone Bess is married and has a young daughter. These kinds of antics have the possibility of harming players' personal relationships. To make matters worse, this impostor even appeared to be using recreational drugs, and one viewer I spoke with even claims he flashed a gun at one point to the camera. (This must have occured a few days ago, since during the ustream broadcast I tuned into for a sec two days ago, "Davone" claimed his web cam was broken.)

These kinds of things could turn into another Vontae Davis scenario quite easily. Even though Davone Bess wasn't mistaken as having committed a crime, he no doubt does not want to be associated with any of the activities that the impostor was doing in front of hundreds of fans using his name and likeness.

So how can the Dolphins go about thwarting such cases of Twitter identity theft in the future? I believe the only solution would be to put a list of verified Dolphin player Twitter accounts on miamidolphins.com for all to see. This would make it easy for fans to easily crosscheck whether or not the Tweeter they are interacting with is vouched for by the organization. Perhaps they could even set up some predetermined accounts for the players to use.

While the previous case of Twitter identity theft involving Chad Pennington was merely a (a sometimes humorous) nuisance, this latest Twitter impostor could have caused much larger problems for Davone since real players such as Chad Ochocinco, Chris Johnson, and Lendale White believed Lambo_Weezy to be the real Davone Bess. And, his actions, if they were indeed the real Davone Bess, likely would have resulted in some sort of disciplinary action or involvement from the team or league.

As this saga winds down, I again would like to thank all those involved in exposing the Twitter impostor.

And I sure am getting tired of writing about Twitter. I could go for some Twitter bird skeet shooting right about now...

TWITTER TRACKER TWITTER TRACKER TRACK THAT TWEET!

Lambo_Weezy: CONFIRMED FRAUD

This will be my final Lambo_Weezy post except for the one where I report on Davone Bess' response to this whole thing, if there even is a response.

Let there be no doubt, Lambo_Weezy was a SCAM! A SHAM! AN IMPOSTOR!

He was a loser who had a passing resemblance to Davone Bess and used it to manipulate people and make his pathetic life feel a tad more exciting.

Even if the previous evidence wasn't enough to sway you, this new bit should.

Lambo_Weezy has officially changed his twitter account name to @Lambo_Weezy15. If he were indeed the REAL Davone Bess, he would have no need to change his account in order to get away from the bad press.

The charade is over. PLEASE pass this on so Lambo_Weezy15 can no longer continue to tarnish the good name of Davone Bess.

Bess is one of the most humble guys around. A man who does his talking on the field, not on a bogus twitter and ustream account. I just hope this Lambo_Weezy character didn't turn off any of Davone's fans through this scam.

Please RETWEET THIS. LETS SHUT DOWN Lambo_Weezy, Lambo_Weezy15, and whichever other account he changes his name to in the future.

UPDATE: He just changed his name to @Lambo_Weezywee. I am sure he will continue to keep changing it. Please just get the word out about this guy. Don't let any other people be fooled.

UPDATE #2: He is now known as @LamboWeezy

FREE DAVONE BESS!

PS: Thank you to all the Tweeters out there who helped us expose Lambo_Weezy for the fraud he is. Hopefully Chris Johnson and Chad Ochocinco are no longer fooled by this clown.

Lambo_Weezy: Case Closed?

It looks like Lambo_Weezy is actually in Orange County. And not even Orange County, FLORIDA. The guy is in L.A. Just got this update from The Phinsider:

[Update by Matty I at 4:12 am] Just to add one more piece of evidence that really shouts that "Lambo_Weezy" is not Davone Bess, on June 1at 11:10 pm, the "fake Bess" tweets, "Mondrian is the best hotel in hollywood." Then on June 2 at 3:06 pm, he tweets, "Wat is everybody doing? talk to me I'm bored @ the hotel room thinkin bout goin to the Beverly center in a lil bit." The Beverly Center, by the way, is a mall in Los Angeles. Then at 5:02, this guy tweets about going to USC to play basketball. The problem with all this? Well, the Dolphins had an OTA on June 2 that was open to the media. And Omar Kelly tweets at 10:02 am on June 2, "Davone Bess paired with Ted Ginn as the starting WRs." Yeah - the real Davone Bess was in Florida practicing at the time. This just about seals the deal for me - though I'll wait for official confirmation. [end update]

Spread the word. There is basically no way he can explain this. On top of all the other evidence we have found to support that Lambo_Weezy is a fraud, including the fact that he refuses to take a picture of himself with a sign that reads his username, should confirm once and for all that Davone Bess has been the victim of nefarious doppelganger. Ochocinco, LenDale, and Chris Johnson also fell prey to the infamous Lambo. Hopefully they didn't loan him any money or anything.

Get the word out to @ChrisJohnson28, @OGOchoCinco, and @THEREAL_LENDALE that they are being played by a con artist posing as Miami Dolphins WR Davone Bess.

Google Images Confirms Lambo_Weezy Is An Impostor?

The proof is in the pudding. Or in this case, the Google Cache.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://static.ustream.tv/videos/1/6/5/2/1652551/114x84.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ustream.tv/lambo_weezy/schedule&usg=__7QtCrjFCAY4eBu2koBW35jwZfik=&h=84&w=112&sz=3&hl=en&start=5&um=1&tbnid=9boihPvoeTtU7M:&tbnh=65&tbnw=86&prev=/images%3Fq%3DLambo_Weezy%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1B3WZPB_enUS312US312%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

(Thanks go to Lord Of Miami at Finheaven for this find.)

This is a Google cache of Lambo_Weezy's Ustream account. It displays a picture that was originally associated with the account. As you can see, that is NOT Davone Bess. The evidence continues to mount. It is only a matter of time before Lambo_Weezy is exposed.

It was rather impressive that he managed to fool so many people, including Chad Ochocinco, LenDale White, and Chris Johnson into believing that he was the real Davone Bess.

All the while, the real Davone Bess was likely working out and staying in nights with his wife and young daughter while Lambo_Weezy was trying to scrub off his good name and tarnish his image.

More Lambo_Weezy Investigation Updates

While this entire saga is still making me go...

I do have some updates to report.

First off, still no word from Lambo_Weezy himself. This would suggest to me that he is hiding, since he has been quite active of late. In fact, he tweeted "goodnight" last night at what would have been 6am EST.

Secondly, no response from LenDale White or Chris Johnson either. However, I do have some bits in regard to LenDale. It seems that the Twitter account that claims to be LenDale and interacted with Lambo_Weezy is legit as per these articles as refered to me by user @TRacsTitans31:

http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d810f7361&template=with-video-with-comments&confirm=true

and

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/afcsouth/0-9-279/Bulluck-expects-this-is-last-season-with-Titans.html

The ESPN article confirms Keith Bulluck's twitter account. From this account, Keith has interacted with ChrisJohnson28 which would make it appear that ChrisJohnson28 is Chris Johnson the RB from the Titans. And since ChrisJohnson28 routinely speaks the Lendale Twitter account I posted earlier, that would appear to make him legit as well.

So both the real Lendale and Chris Johnson appear to believe that Lambo_Weezy is the real Davone Bess.

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Bdizzle93, a once staunch Lambo_Weezy believer, has now come to believe that the account is fake as well since his father, a diehard dolphin fan, found that the voice Lambo_Weezy was using sounded nothing like Davone Bess in interviews.

Bdizzle also stated that Lambo_Weezy was asking other Twitter users to pick up chicks for him. I highly doubt Davone Bess would have any trouble finding women.

But this leads to another issue. According to @808okiboy Davone Bess is married and had his first child a while back. If this is true, and Lambo_Weezy is really Davone Bess, he will have to answer to more than just the Tuna. I highly doubt a married man would flaunt his cheating ways all over Twitter seeing as how it is such a public forum.

Perhaps the best proof AGAINST Lambo_Weezy being the real Davone Bess is the following tweet I received:

rzayo24 @Finstache ...The account sent a tweet out at like 11:11am and 12:30pm on June 14th...Phins had practice. And 5am nite b4 a chat started

I made an attempt to verify this, but @Lambo_Weezy has now locked his updates to the outside world.

For now, it is still up in the air. But I am still leaning toward the side that Lambo_Weezy is a sham account trying, and somewhat succeeding, to profit off of Davone's fame.

Stay tuned.

UPDATE: The guys over at The Phinsider were able to detail the descrepencies from when Lambo_Weezy was tweeting and Davone Bess was on the practice field. You can check out what they found HERE.

This is getting closer and closer to a cracked case, but we still won't know for sure until the real Davone Bess speaks out on the issue or his agent confirms or denies. I suppose there was always the offchance that Bess had his blackberry stashed in his jockstrap and tweeted in between running routes...

UPDATE #2: I received the following message from @TRUE_Sports which recollects something Lambo_Weezy tweeted about on June 24th...

Lambo_Weezy tweeted:

@boscovega **** im single now so i gotta party it up lol 10:57 PM Jun 24th

If someone could confirm or deny whether Davone was recently divorced, that would go a long way in solving the case.

The Curious Case of Lambo_Weezy

This Lambo_Weezy Twitter Saga is beginning to get as complicated as a David Lynch film. Most signs point to Lambo_Weezy being a Davone Bess impersonator, however, there are still some things that keep popping up which would tend to support the claim that Lambo_Weezy is indeed the real Davone.

This is where we stand so far:

A few days back Lambo_Weezy pops on the scene. His online persona is flamboyant and gaudy, almost the antithesis of the Davone Bess we have seen in interviews. He even was seemingly charging other people to make appearances at their clubs and parties.

He has held several live streaming chats with fans on Ustream.com at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/me-and-chillin. However, during these live broadcasts, there is only audio, no video. He claims his webcam is busted. I only listened in on a portion of the broadcast. At the time, I did think it sounded like Davone Bess from what I remembered from interviews. However, several posters from Finheaven, a popular Dolphins message board, found the broadcast to feature a personality that was out of character for the Davone they thought they knew. You can see their reaction here.

Anyway, Lambo_Weezy has several legit NFL tweeters convinced that he is the real Davone Bess. Chad Ochocinco @OGOchoCinco is a verified account, meaning, that it has been PROVEN that the real number 85 uses that account. When asked by several tweeters whether or not Lambo_Weezy was Davone Bess, he responded that it was.

My first interaction with Lambo_Weezy was when I tweeted him in regard to a typo. He had responded to another user's question about who was the most impressive rookie he faced in camp and Lambo_Weezy responded with "Steve Smith". At the time, I thought it just might have been a slip up, as he meant Sean Smith, but looking back, I think that was a clue as to the identity of Lambo_Weezy.

Today, I received a tweet from @Bryttani18 which linked me to some pictures on his personal TwitPic.com account. TwitPic is a place that allows you to store photos for use on Twitter. She stated that the photos didn't look like the Davone Bess she had seen in photos, and upon inspection, I concur.

When I confronted Lambo_Weezy on the issue, he promptly deleted the photos in question. Fortunately, @Bryttani18 had saved the photos and passed them along to me. That picture can be found here.

Obviously the photo is NOT of Davone Bess. However, Lambo_Weezy claims that a friend had used his phone to take a picture of himself and that is why it was on his TwitPic account.

I told him that the only way to prove that he was the real Davone Bess was to take a picture of himself holding a sign that read "Lambo_Weezy" under it. If he is indeed the real Davone Bess, this would be the easiest way to prove it. He responded that he would do so later. As of this time, he has not posted any such photo.

Since the photos got out into the Dolphin Twitter fan base, several people have come forth to help provide their assistance in uncovering the truth. @ThePhinsider put a call into Davone's agent, so we should have the answer once he hears back from him. Additionally, Ethan Skolnick of the Sun-Sentinel has picked up on the story. It won't be long until the truth regarding Lambo_Weezy surfaces.

During one of the broadcasts, several users stated that Lambo_Weezy had a conversation with LenDale White over the phone.

I received the following tweets from a Titans fan who seemed to confirm that LenDale did in fact speak with Davone, and that those accounts were confirmed by the Tennessean. He stated the following:

Ryan915 @Finstache and he said yeah it was.. LenDale and CJ's twitters are confirmed by the Tennessean too. I don't know what's going on here.

28 minutes ago from web

Ryan915 @Finstache If you read LenDale's updates he replied to what I asked he just didn't press reply. I asked if that was him on the phone

I have since tweeted both Lendale (@THEREAL_LENDALE) and Chris Johnson(@ChrisJohnson28), but have not yet received a response. However, I am even beginning to think that THESE accounts are fake. If it weren't for the fact that the Tennessean supposedly backed them up, I would lump them in with Lambo_Weezy.

My reasoning is as follows: All these accounts use photography that anyone could find simply by doing a google search. Most of the verified NFL tweeters such as Chad Johnson and Warren Sapp have used photos they have taken themselves from their camera phones, etc.

The fact that Chad Ochocinco vouched for Lambo_Weezy remains the most perplexing aspect of this whole saga.

In any case, the truth will surface shortly. There are too many people on this case for this charade to persist much longer.

Be sure to check back for more updates.

BTW, I kept imagining the hardcore TWITTER TRACKER voice from the Tonight Show while writing this story...

TWITTER TRACKER TWITTER TRACKER TRACK THOSE TWEETS!

And of course be sure to follow the Twitter drama as it unfolds here: http://www.twitter.com/finstache.

@Lambo_Weezy NOT Davone Bess?

After I posted the last story regarding Twitter and its implications for the Parcells Regime, an intrepid tweeter by the name of @Bryttani18 linked me to a picture Lambo_Weezy had posted of himself on twitpic.com. While the person could pass for Davone Bess at a dark nightclub, mimmicking his signature dreads, it did not appear to me to be the same person. After I RTd the messaged to @Lambo_Weezy, the pictures mysteriously disappeared.

This, in conjunction with the fact that he never used video during his Ustream broadcasts, leads me to believe that in fact there is someone posing as Davone Bess on Twitter, and perhaps in real life. Lambo_Weezy responded to several requests to appear at clubs and parties by asking for money in return.

The one facet of this story that is still a bit of a mystery is the fact that the REAL Chad Ochocinco vouched for @Lambo_Weezy as the real Davone Bess. I tweeted him regarding the evidence we found as to his stolen identity, and am awaiting a response.

You can follow all the action at http://www.twitter.com/finstache

UPDATE: @Bryttani18 managed to save these images before they were deleted. Lambo_Weezy is Davone Bess? See for yourself! BUSTED!

UPDATE 2: @Lambo_Weezy direct messaged me with the following: "Lambo_WeezyMy friend used my phone with those pics, wat u did was not cool @ all if u seen all the pics the had difftent people on them"

I couldn't direct message him back, so I tweeted him back telling him he could resolve this issue by simply posting an image of himself holding a sign that read "Lambo_Weezy". I will keep you updated if he takes up the challenge.

UPDATE 3: He responded with "I will later". Keep posted.

PLEASE RETWEET THIS SO WE CAN CLEAR DAVONE's NAME!