Author Topic: Gay boxer comes out - Featherweight Orlando Cruz (Read 6404 times)

Tre · « **on:** October 04, 2012, 10:05:55 AM »

Would've been more of a story if dude wasn't a featherweight.

http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/8460484/puerto-rican-featherweight-orlando-cruz-comes-proud-gay-man

Featherweight Orlando Cruz, a 2000 Puerto Rican Olympian and a fringe contender as a professional fighter, has done something unusual in boxing, or in any professional sport: He said he is gay.

Cruz, 31, the first openly gay fighter, released a statement on Wednesday calling himself a "proud gay man."

"I've been fighting for more than 24 years and as I continue my ascendant career, I want to be true to myself," Cruz said. "I want to try to be the best role model I can be for kids who might look into boxing as a sport and a professional career. I have and will always be a proud Puerto Rican. I have always been and always will be a proud gay man."

Cruz (18-2-1, 9 KOs), a pro since December 2000, lost back-to-back fights in 2009 and 2010, getting knocked out in the fifth round by Cornelius Lock and then in the third round by Daniel Ponce De Leon, who won a world featherweight title on Sept. 15.

Cruz won his next two bouts and is scheduled to face Jorge Pazos (20-4, 13 KOs) on Oct. 19 in the main event of a Telemundo-televised card from Kissimmee, Fla.

Cruz said in his statement that he was tired of hiding who he really was.

"I don't want to hide any of my identities," he said. "I want people to look at me for the human being that I am. I am a professional sportsman that always bring his best to the ring. I want for people to continue to see me for my boxing skills, my character, my sportsmanship. But I also want kids who suffer from bullying to know that you can be whoever you want to be in life, including a professional boxer, that anything is possible and that who you are or whom you love should not be impediment to achieving anything in life.

"I want to thank my family, especially my mom, who's my inspiration and my best reason to continue to live and my brother and my sister. I want to thank my friends for their love and support. And I also want to thank my team for believing in me and being so supportive not only in this decision, but throughout my career. I am and will always be a proud Puerto Rican gay man."

bradistani · « **Reply #1 on:** October 04, 2012, 10:08:08 AM »

as long as it isn't your own son, who really gives a fuck these days ? these fucks should start staying 'in' for a change

Nails · « **Reply #2 on:** October 04, 2012, 10:10:17 AM »

Radical Plato · « **Reply #3 on:** October 04, 2012, 10:12:03 AM »

Did you hear that?, it's the sound of a man committing professional suicide in the most masculine of professions. What a douche! Their's a reason nobody else has come out in the sport of boxing, obviously that fact escaped the poor fool. In the words of Clubber Lang: "No, I don't hate Orlando . I pity the fool"

arce1988 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 04, 2012, 03:29:13 PM »

Oscar is sick.

bigjim · « **Reply #5 on:** October 04, 2012, 04:45:32 PM »

what the fuck is wronf with oscar? is he a flaming homo?

el numero uno · « **Reply #6 on:** October 04, 2012, 04:52:27 PM »

Slik · « **Reply #7 on:** October 04, 2012, 05:15:15 PM »

I saw those oscar pix before but r they really real or shopped. If real that boy is took one too many punches to the head.

Nicademus · « **Reply #8 on:** October 04, 2012, 06:27:59 PM »

Boxing is an individual sport he'll be fine.

Tre · « **Reply #9 on:** October 04, 2012, 10:31:25 PM »

Quote from: el numero uno on October 04, 2012, 04:52:27 PM

lol

He's obviously had practice.

a_ahmed · « **Reply #10 on:** October 04, 2012, 10:34:53 PM »

wtf... where the hell is the puke icon?!?!?!

Okay great, so next time he steps in the ring, the other guy will want to pound the shit out of him that much more. Good.

Hahaha funny thing is most westerners have only like on average 1 child.. even my parents only had me. With the advent homosexuals going hay wire, this is true population control. Population is on the absolute decline in that sense and homosexuals contribute to this process.

Some elite pricks actually want to depopulate the earth. I guess their plot is unravelling just mighty fine.

D_1000 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 04, 2012, 10:39:07 PM »

Quote from: Slik on October 04, 2012, 05:15:15 PM

I saw those oscar pix before but r they really real or shopped. If real that boy is took one too many punches to the head.

They're real. Was a big thing a few years back.

tu_holmes · « **Reply #12 on:** October 04, 2012, 10:43:10 PM »

Quote from: D_1000 on October 04, 2012, 10:39:07 PM

They're real. Was a big thing a few years back.

Extremely real.

Coach is Back! · « **Reply #13 on:** October 04, 2012, 10:47:21 PM »

So che finally came out of the closet eh?

mame09 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 04, 2012, 11:27:37 PM »

you have to feel for his opponents past and present

no one wants to lose to a homo or get knocked out by one which is worse

so most likely he wont be getting any major fights unless the pink mafia have a say in the boxing world

Kwon_2 · « **Reply #15 on:** October 05, 2012, 07:06:26 AM »

Not sure why Oscar even accepted to taking his pics in that ludicruos outfit, maybe too many punches to the head.

Or just plain being a fruit.

Nails · « **Reply #16 on:** October 05, 2012, 07:13:47 AM »

He said he was super High on Cocaine

Former champion: New York model Angelica Marie Cecora, 25, says retired boxer Oscar De La Hoya cavorted around in women's underwear and went crazy with cocaine and sex toys

Quote from: Kwon_2 on October 05, 2012, 07:06:26 AM

Not sure why Oscar even accepted to taking his pics in that ludicruos outfit, maybe too many punches to the head.

Or just plain being a fruit.

Kwon_2 · « **Reply #17 on:** October 05, 2012, 07:23:48 AM »

Quote from: Nails on October 05, 2012, 07:13:47 AM

He said he was super High on Cocaine

Former champion: New York model Angelica Marie Cecora, 25, says retired boxer Oscar De La Hoya cavorted around in women's underwear and went crazy with cocaine and sex toys

Well i can definately say, that even if i was super high on cocaine, i would not parade around like that

Kim Jong Bob · « **Reply #18 on:** October 05, 2012, 07:36:06 AM »

Quote from: Kwon_2 on October 05, 2012, 07:23:48 AM

Well i can definately say, that even if i was super high on cocaine, i would not parade around like that

yeah right

bike nut · « **Reply #19 on:** October 05, 2012, 07:56:36 AM »

For the record....this gay boxer has had less sweaty, fat, balding men deposit jism in his ass than TBombz has....

Moen · « **Reply #20 on:** October 05, 2012, 08:02:13 AM »

All of this gay-hate is pathetic. Him being gay doesn't make him less of a boxer and I'm sure his opponents will mind much less (if at all) than the "general crowd". Live and let live. (which can be hard for Americans, I understand)

bike nut · « **Reply #21 on:** October 05, 2012, 08:05:03 AM »

Quote from: Moen on October 05, 2012, 08:02:13 AM

All of this gay-hate is pathetic. Him being gay doesn't make him less of a boxer and I'm sure his opponents will mind much less (if at all) than the "general crowd". Live and let live. (which can be hard for Americans, I understand)

Ever stop and think that only gays with an agenda really care who knows or doesn't know that they're gay?

Well....and the Ugandan sailors that TBombz services.

Moen · « **Reply #22 on:** October 05, 2012, 08:10:09 AM »

What would his agenda be?

Nails · « **Reply #23 on:** October 05, 2012, 08:10:48 AM »

B_B_C · « **Reply #24 on:** October 18, 2012, 09:55:58 AM »

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/oct/18/orlando-cruz-gay-boxer-interview

Cruz's face grows sombre and he nods when asked if he knows the tragic story of Emile Griffith and Benny Paret. "Of course," he says. Fifty years ago, in April 1962, at the weigh-in before their third bout in a bitterly ferocious series, Paret taunted Griffith as a maricón. Griffith beat up Paret so badly that the Cuban welterweight was reduced to a punching bag in the 12th round – absorbing 29 unanswered blows. Paret fell into a coma and died 10 days later. Griffith was haunted for decades afterwards.

"Griffith was gay," Cruz says, "but he could not do what I did. It was only years later he could admit to being bisexual. I understand."

Cruz listens intently while I read a quote from Griffith – who said these words before he succumbed to dementia: "I kill a man and most people forgive me. However, I love a man and many say this makes me an evil person."He sinks back into his chair, a strange expression flitting across his face. "It shows the hypocrisy of the world," he murmurs in Spanish. "He probably wanted to say those words 50 years ago but he was not living in the moment we are now. He was not as lucky as me."