Triple jumper Sheila Hudson, a great athlete and a gorgeous woman, jumped the wrong way.
Hudson, who is now about age 40, committed a matrimonial misdemeanor when, for whatever reason she might offer, she did not rush to a church to marry Freddie Roach.
The track and field star was once engaged to Boxingconfidential?s Bachelor Of The Year, famed boxing trainer.
Imagine the tremendous footwork and boxing skills their progeny would?ve gotten in their designer genes. I don?t think even Floyd Mayweather can triple jump and throw a left hook simultaneously.
That they were enagaged and split up is public knowledge. But not many people know this but I do.
Back in his youthful days in Vegas, when he was solid, 10-round fighter for Bob Arum?s Top Rank, the hotties in Sin City used to call the Boston boy ?Fly Fly Freddie.?
And he wasn?t even a rich guy back then. Now, at age 47, I?m not saying Fredster is a threat to Brad Pitt or some of the younger Hollywood poster boys but he is also not chopped liver.
His Mom, Barbara, is not a Jewish mother who would be farklempt over her prosperous son?s bachelor status and lack of children but I know Irish-American mothers have the same feelings any other Mom would.
Take my late, sainted mother, Dorothy Marion Corbett, for example. My mother either put a blessing or a curse on me when I was still in college. I followed Muhammad Ali around the world so much my mother questioned if I was majoring in journalism or boxing at Nevada-Reno.
?You?ll never get married, Michael,? Mom said. ?Because you will never find a woman you love as much as you love Muhammad Ali.?
Women have come, women have gone and, here I am a decade older than my Boston brother Roach, and I?m still a sometimes boozed up bachelor. At least Roach is still in his prime and does not have to pay attention to TV spots for male sexual enhancement pills or prostate shrinking medications. Me, I coming close to the old lecher category. (Pllumbing works fine, thank you, although I’m sure that is TMI.)
Which gets me back to Fly Fly Freddie and our newest Boxingconfidential.com mission or contest.
That is to locate and to introduce the Pugilistic Professor to a suitable bachelorette. Britney Spears just got thown into a funny farm so I guess she?s off limits. She probably wouldn?t know Nacho Beristain from Nachos Supreme, anyway.
I welcome any and all reader nominations. Btw, our search knows no ethnic or racial boundaries although I must say that since Roach?s Irish pallor is nearly that of an albino, I might rule someone with lighter pigmentation out of the search.
Roach is a man of the world, a seasoned man, and I believe he can appreciate the innate beauty of all women whether they are from Bacolod, Boston or Babilonia.
Ooops, that was a Freudian slip. I was thinking of my old love, who I never actually met even though I covered her Olympic skating exploits, the over the top sexy and 50 percent Filipina, Tai Babilonia.
Her web site mentions that she is engaged to comic David Brenner but, from what I hear, he’s a chepa skate. (Get it, cheap skate?) Brenner’s not good enough for my Lake Placid Olympic heroine.
I may be too old, too battered for the Ice Queen now but wait until I introduce her to my ?younger brother.?
Tai, say hello to Bachelor #1, Freddie Roach. He?s a coach, he?s no joke and you two just might make beautiful music together.
Send your bachelorette names, photos, phone numbers, track records, etc. to me at
We won?t get Coach Roach to the chapel by Valentine?s Day but perhaps a nice June wedding on a Cape Cod beach would accomplish our task.
Come on, you matchmakers, bring it! Let the (ice) chips fall where they may.
I wonder if Tai has an older sister?
