How well would a Gay boxer do?

[Kev]

Actually you are,nobody cares about Holyfield anymore,they havent for years now.
It'll play on boxing boards,but it would barely be a hiccup on a mainstream news board like Yahoo

I see Fenster is on this thread, at least he'll speak some sense here.

Since when did Holyfield cease to be irrelevent as a huge global figure of sport? True most people don't care about his continued boxing career as he's far past his prime but he's still a bona fide A+ celebrity virtually the whole world over.

You really think if he, a boxing legend, a devout Christian, a man with more kids than even Katfights announced he was gay that it wouldn't even make the main page of news on yahoo?

If it is was anyone else on the board who said this I'd be in disbelief, but of course from you such a position is to be expected

It would show up,but it would be gone the next day,really Holyfields own fault,he cant seem to wait to find another way to tarnish his own legend,but it would be exactly the same with Ali,it would show up for the day of the announcement,and be gone the next day.

You think if Muhammad Ali announced he was gay it would be news that morning and then forgotten the next day??

I can't even be bothered to explain.......

[Gandalf]

If Muhammad Ali turned out to be a homosexual after all these years and all those marriages it would be a sensational story. Most stories are pretty impermanent and don't tend to get serialised, but for it's time at the centre of things it would be pretty huge. No doubt about it.