Famous people I’ve
meet
Colonel Sanders, I
shook his hand in the Cherry Festival parade when I was nine.
Durwood Hershey, The
outdoor sport write for the Detroit Free Press was on my paper route and he
taught me to fly fish.
Cheryl Wheeler Duncan
Woman’s world champion kickboxer and stunt woman. We trained together at
the same boxing gym.
Roy Jones Sr. World renowned boxing trainer and my mentor.
Roy Jones Sr. World renowned boxing trainer and my mentor.
Bo Jackson We
meet him at the sunshine State games in Gainesville Florida. He was running
track for Auburn University.
Antonio Tarver He
fought Roy Jones Jr. in the Sunshine State games in 1983
Lemuel Nelson Contender
for Junior Lightweight championship. We were sparring partners.
Kelsey Banks 1988
Olympian, we fought each other in 1982.
Earnie Shavers Former
Heavyweight contender. I got his autograph when he fought in Pensacola in 1983.
Rudy Beocsh Longest serving Navy SEAL, he was master Chief of Command at SEAL Team Two and I would see him around the compound and he would always talk to me.
Julian Wheeler He
is the former WBC Continental Americas Super Featherweight, USBA Lightweight,
and IBC Light Welterweight champion. We were sparring partner on the Boxing
team.
Sean Fletcher USA
Boxing champion three years in a row and contender fighting for world
championships three times.
Sugar Ray Leonard
1976 Olympic boxer and all-time great professional boxer. I trained at his camp with Roy Jones Junior in 1987.
Eugene Speed NABF
Super Featherweight champion. We were sparring partners.
Michael Bent WBO
World Heavyweight Champion. We trained together at Sugar Ray Leonard’s camp.
Michael
Trainer Sugar Ray Lenard’s boxing attorney.
Tony Suggs Virginia
State Light Welterweight Champion and USA Boxing Nation Champion, we fought in
1987.
Danny “Little Red”
Lopez Hall of fame Featherweight champion. We meet at the boxing hall of
fame banquet in 1988 and I introduced him to Roy Jones Jr.
Carlos Palomino Hall
of fame welterweight champion. We meet at the boxing hall of fame banquet and I
introduced him to Roy Jones Jr. and I used to run into him at amateur boxing
events in LA.
Henry Tillman Olympic Heavyweight Gold Medalist and contender for
the heavyweight title. We meet at the boxing hall of fame banquet in 1988.
Martin Sheen Actor, I ran into him in Paraguay in 1990 and he was there with Green Peace.
Martin Sheen Actor, I ran into him in Paraguay in 1990 and he was there with Green Peace.
Dick Cheney US Vice president. We meet at the Naval Special Warfare
Unit in Panama during Operation “Just Cause”.
Emmitt Smith Emmitt
Smith, I used to watch him play high school football at Escambia and ran into
him at Roy Jones Jr.’s first pro fight.
Carlos Hathcock Famous
Marine sniper who wrote the book “One shot, one kill. Marine sniper” Was one of
my instructors in Sniper school.
Victor Cordova WBA
Super middleweight champion. We meet in Panama at an amateur boxing show.
Guillermo Endara President
of Panama, I jumped out of his plane while he was in it.
James “Bone Crusher”
Smith Former WBA Heavyweight Champion, we trained together in Fort Bragg in
1991.
Jack Kemp US
Senator and Vice Presidential candidate. We meet at the Roy Jones Jr. vs Julio
Gonzales fight. I ran into him again a few year later in the San Diego airport.
Fred Levin Known
for rewriting Florida’s Medicaid
Third-Party Recovery Act allowing the state of Florida to sue the Tobacco
Industry. He was Roy Jones Jr. promoter and legal consultant. I call him every time
I go to Pensacola.
George Foreman Two
time heavyweight champion of the world. We meet in Portland when Roy Jones Jr.
fought Clinton Woods and ringside in Dallas 2013.
Bob Arum We meet
in the casino prior to the McKline vs Klitskho fight and sitting ringside in
Dallas.
Tyrone Woods Meet
at the Far East Rock.
Glenn Dougherty Meet
at the Far East Rock
Kevin Ward Professional
baseball player and thoroughbred breeder. Kevin and Craig Lefferts Set me up to
give chapel services for the Braves and the Padres in 1995.
Craig Lefferts Major
league relief pitcher. We meet when he and Kevin Ward had me give chapel
services to the Braves and the Padres in 1995.
Trevor Hoffman Famous relief pitcher of the San Diego Padres. Craig Lefferts introduced us.
Dexter Yeager First Amway Diamond, we meet in Mobil Alabama at a convention.
Herd Mitchell Actor who played the boxing commissioner in the movie "Ali" but he also played Dean Whitter, the Saturn Guy, the goofy manager in Staples commercials, the "Blue and the Grey". He invited me to have an Italian gourmet dinner at his house. We meet several times and talked on the phone often.
Tony Gwynn Hall
of fame slugger, I meet him many times when I worked security for the Padres in
1996.
Orlin Norris WBA
World Cruiserweight champion, we managed a fighter together.
Terry Norris Great
all time welterweight and Junior Middleweight champions. He likes to clown on
me.
Jesse Ventura Pro
wrestler, actor and Governor of Minnesota. I meet him at the SEAL Team reunion
in 2006 and we got into a heated argument over politic.
Merqui Sosa Former
Light heavyweight champion, we meet at Kelsey Banks’ gym while my son Devin
trained there.
Andy MacDowell Actress
and model, meet her at the J. Paul Getti Museum around 1999 and she autographed
Devin’s drawing.
Dennis Quaid Actor,
he was with Andy MacDowell at the Getti Museum.
Tim Bradley Jr. Welterweight Champion, we meet in Palm Springs with his PR manager Tommy Jennings.
Tom Hopkins Famous sales trainer.
Ted Batkin Chairman of the California Citrus Research board for 20 years, I consult with him on agriculture and drone applications.
Ted Batkin Chairman of the California Citrus Research board for 20 years, I consult with him on agriculture and drone applications.
Gene Robinson Sued
the FAA to be allowed to use small drones for search and rescue. I have visited
him several times at his facility just north of Austin.
Mitt Romney Two
time Republican Presidential candidate, I meet him in San Diego when he ran in
2008. I ran into him again last week at the Las Vegas airport.
Melissa Rycroft Is
a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader, Melissa is studying to be an engineer. I got to
sit next to her on the plane leaving Dallas to Salt Lake.
Erica Is a Dallas
Cowboy Cheerleader with a degree in communications and she has a strong faith
and would like to do evangelical speaking. We sat next to each other on the
plane from Dallas to Salt Lake. I do not know her last name.