The Rubin that took Griffith, Benton, Fernandez, Mims, Ellis, wins this one. No one but Dick Tiger takes Rubin at 158lbs in a shootout in the 60's. The way to beat Rubin was to step around him, do a paint job on him, and use a lot of lateral movement like an Archer or Giardello did (although he won the Joey G bout IMO). No excuses when he was boozing, neglecting training but when he was on he had twice the power in both hands Bennie had, faster hands by far, and much better ring skills as evidenced in the Benton fight. Bennie was very underdeveloped yet still strong, but he was a wide swinger and had a very very tough fight with Tony Chivarini before he stopped him, was laid out cold by Valdez but was one of my favorites as a steady Eddie brawler who would fight the Devil himself. Carter was very fluid in that ring and he would punish and counter punch Bennie and Bennie could not and would not finish or stop Rubin. If you came right at him or stayed close to him to engage in a swap session, he would paralyse you and bust you up. When he was at his zenith he was very dangerous and you had better be a motor skooter like a Skeeter McClure, Archer or Johnny Morris and keep moving, moving moving to survive. Bennie came to fight, and he would catch shots like he never dreamed of. Rubin could take it to the chin and body all night long. Only snappy sneaky punchers like Mims dropped him for a 4 count, and even then he got up and went back to blasting away all night. Look what Rubin did to a Prime Benton in the 10th round, almost knocking him out of the ring. Look at what he did to Floro Fernandez who went 15 with Fullmer and who stopped Jose Torres in 5 (I have a brief clip of that fight, and Fernandez killed him to the body that night), yet was stopped brutally in one by Rubin. Griffith only stopped twice in his career and one of those times was a one round blowout to Carter, the 2nd time when an old man on his feet... think about it. Carter beats Bad Bennie in a war of the shaved head middleweights in a brutal fight for both men, moreso for the Philadelphian.
