The man who was in the ring with Benjamin Flores of Houston when he died during that fight at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas Thursday night is trying to make sense of it all. Al Seeger is back in Savannah, Georgia but his thoughts remain in Dallas.

The fight was described as a competitive fight until the 8th round. There were a flurry of punches thrown when something when wrong.

"I noticed that he had gone from the chair to the floor, and I was just waiting for him to get up. You know that happens. I've been in that position and you get up," says Seeger. " You see a guy and they go down, and you wait, they get up and you go and you make your phone calls. But he just didn't get up and that just stayed with me."

The fight was for the vacant NABF Super Bantamweight title.

"We've reviewed this very, very carefully, between Dr. Landers the chief ring side physician, Dick Cole who was representing the state there, and me," says Steve Crosson who has refereed thousands of fights and was the boxing chairman for the TREC Foundation which produced the fight. "In reviewing this we can't find anything that could have been done that would have produced a different outcome.

"I just want to say that no title or no amount of money in world is every worth someone losing their life," says Seeger. "I just can't explain why it happened. My thoughts are just completely on the Flores family."

Flores is survived by his parents, a sister and his fiancé. He also leaves behind a 10-month old son, Christopher Jesus.

The Real Estate Council has set up a memorial fund:

Benjamin Flores Memorial Fund
Attn: Sabrina Jaramillo
Guaranty Bank
2nd Floor - TMSS
8333 Douglas Ave.
Dallas, TX 75225

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