Ben is a happy young fellow of 81 years with a charismatic personality.  He can be seen at the Fabulous Freddie’s Carwash on Charleston and Fort Apache, greeting and shaking hands with customers and talking about old times in the fight game.  He’s quite a P R guy.  There are pictures of him on a large poster with many champions outside the main entrance to the carwash.  He sparred with the greats… heavy weight champion Sonny Liston, Jersey Joe Walcott, Essard Charles and Rocky Marciano to name a few.  He started out as the light heavy weight champion in the Navy of the Aleutian Islands.  He went on to have a pro career and fought Archie Moore twice.  As a sparring partner, he traveled with Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson along with the legendary referee Arthur Donavon. There are so many more stories to tell about his exciting career that we will bring to you in the up coming months. 

Oh, by the way... Friday night at the Orleans, I checked out Tye Fields and Bruce Seldon heavy weight fights.  It was a travesty… I’ve never seen a fight with an ex- champion so terribly out of shape, never through one punch, I’ll take it back, he through one punch in the second round and missed by ten feet.  The rest of the time he covered up, not trying to throw a punch and went down with a shot to the body.  The second time he went down with a shot to the body and  a left to the head that missed.  He got up at the count of five, and the referee stopped the fight. Bruce Seldon, do us a favor, don’t fight again…    

Don’t forget the heavy weight championship fight between Vitali Klitschko and Hasim Rahman at the Thomas and Mack on November 12^th. This may be Rahman’s last shot at a title. 

Also, Floyd Mayweather Jr. is fighting Sharmba Mitchell on November 19^th in Portland Ore. The world’s best boxer has to get a major fight in 2006. 

Finally, in December watch for my interview with an outstanding up and coming heavy weight.