How well would a Gay boxer do?

[Kev]

Apparantly it keeps getting booked as a loss leader then huh?
Id rather watch a Mahfood or Wolfe fight then a Valuev fight,any rational fan of the sport would

I don't mean it won't make money or that it has no fans Monkey I just mean the world at large doesn't watch it.

If Anne Wolfe came out as a lesbian then it might raise a few eyebrows within the boxing world, (especially as most probably think if she confessed to anything it would be to be being born a man) but the reaction from 99.9% of the world population would be 'Anne who?'

Mens boxing though is different, the world class fighters at the elite of the sport are far far far far far (add another 25000000 zero's at least) more well known than Anne Wolfe is and so it would be a far bigger deal and would get talked about at the very least.

Again this isn't a knock on woman's boxing you could say the same for any other female sport apart from tennis, and you could say it about 90% of all sports other than the big few like soccer, American football, tennis, Formula One, Baseball etc.

Nobody in Britian would care if a member of our national hockey team was gay or even the whole team as we simply wouldnt know because we don't play hockey but if any footballer in the UK announced he was gay (like Justin Fashanu did) he can expect a barracking from the terraces and songs being chanted about him for the rest of his career and beyond.

I got news,most of the world isnt watching male or female boxing,except the die hards.
Alot of why I got in to the promotion and management end of it in the first place,is I wanted to see the fights I wanted to see,not one tomato can after another being beaten senseless by another contender.
Ive just about gotten Mahfood/Bontz wrapped up,and Im looking forward to seeing it,because I dont have a clue who'se going to win.
Those are the type of fights boxing needs
Not 35-0 vs,we just found this guy

Monkey I admire your insistence on arguing every single point you make until the bitter end, refusing to give in even when the reality of your wrongness is pointed out by everybody.

But let's just assume here a little scenario.

Christy Martin announces she is gay. What kind of newspaper and media coverage do you think this would get?

Now Evander Holyfield announces he is gay.

I ask you Monkey, which is the bigger news story? Which one would people be talking about? On this forum and other boxing sites around the world which story would be discussed the most?

An openly gay boxer amongst the world's male elite would be huge news. If Floyd Mayweather announces he's been playing with mens cocks you can be sure it would create some SERIOUS news, discussion and debate.

If Christy Martin announces she like to flick the bean pretty much the only household where anyone will care other than her own is yours.

Anyway, I know you will continue to disagree and delight us all with another classic response, so please continue.........