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The world's first transgender professional boxer is now the face of Everlast
Everlast, the leading brand in boxing, has chosen an unlikely athlete to be the new face of the brand.
The company picked Patricio Manuel for its "Be First" campaign. Manuel is the first transgender boxer to compete professionally.
As a woman, Manuel was a USA National Amateur Boxing Champion and was invited to compete in the 2012 Olympics trials.
However, a shoulder injury during Olympic qualifying changed everything, Everlast said in a news release.
While Manuel was recovering from the injury he decided to transition from female to male. It proved to be the toughest fight of his life.
He was shunned and abandoned by his trainers and gym, and he had to fight the boxing commissions until they recognized regulations on transgender people in the sport, the news release said.
Against all odds, Manuel fought his way back into the sport and became the first person to compete in a professional boxing match as a transgender fighter. On December 8, 2018, Manuel climbed into the ring against Hugo Aguilar at the Fantasy Spring Resort Casino in Indio, California, and came out a winner.
The six-year journey proved to be worth the wait.
"I'm incredibly honored to have been selected to tell my story in Everlast's Be First campaign," Manuel tells CNN. "Everlast is such a fixture in the sport and to have such an iconic athletic company recognize me as I am -- as a professional boxer who is transgender -- is a dream come true."
There may be no other fighter who embodies the campaign's focus on challenging people to carve their own path to success better than Manuel, and he is paving the way for others to follow him.
"At a time when transgender people are being questioned whether we have a place in the sporting world or even being recognized by the world at large, for Everlast to endorse me is huge," Manuel said. "It's a bold statement and I think it personifies the saying 'Be First.'"
"I really hope it pushes other companies to think outside the box. This world is so incredibly diverse, we all deserve to have our identities and stories highlighted."
Transgender boxer Patricio Manuel becomes face of Everlast - CNN
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Humans are the dumbest species on the planet
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Humans are the dumbest species on the planet
No wonder the apes took over.
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Well, this one is a little different. Usually it's guys becoming girls but keeping their muscular bodies.
This time its a female beating guys.
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I HATE this transgender stuff, especially when it comes to sports.
I watch a "reality" show called "Botched." Two plastic surgeons, who apparently are the best of the best, take on botched surgeries to help people be normal again. Some of the cases are truly horrifying, like one lady who had a tummy tuck in Mexico and they froze the area with ice, no general or even local anesthesia, which damaged the tissue and caused major deformity... just one example...
Anyhow, they also include all the freaks ... the porn stars with basketball size implants, transgenders, drag queens... and thankfully, 99% of the time, they turn them away with stern warnings. And that 1%, is someone who actually needs their help. They really are good at their jobs.
It's just a matter of time before they show someone who wants to reverse their trans surgery. But then again, it may not be PC to address a trans reversal.
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fuego
No wonder the apes took over.
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Humans are the dumbest species on the planet
At least when they allow the opposite path, huge stocky males posing as transgender athletes in the women's division. There was one recently that ran sprints at the college level and technically broke the women's world record and won a scholarship by beating all the females. I'm not sure if he had even done any kind of gender transition, it might amount to just a matter of identifying as a female.
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Well, at least Patricio looks like a man...
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curly sue
Well, at least Patricio looks like a man...
Seriously.
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