http://msn.foxsports.com/boxing/story/9887332/Boxer-wants-to-fight-as-woman-after-sex-change
Boxer Rob Newbiggin is preparing for his final bout, but all of his friends are no longer in his corner.
That's because they've all deserted him since learning of his plans for a sex change, he says.
The 44-year-old Southport resident says he'll soon become "Mercedes," as he admitted in an English tabloid.
"The way The Sun treated my story was the complete opposite to what I expected. Maybe I was being naive, but they made me out to be some kind of freak. I should have just spoken to the Visiter," he told the Southport Visiter.
"I have lost every friend I have ever had in the world in this town."
Newbiggin, who has boxed for 20 years and is a former sparring partner of Ricky Hatton, has said he hopes to continue his career in the women's ranks.
Newbiggin says though he has the physical characteristics of a man, he was born with high levels of estrogen that make his gender identity less than clear.
He says that was the reason his adoptive father pushed him toward boxing to begin with.
"My dad said that I had to act like a man because people wouldn't accept me as anything else, so I started boxing at the YMCA at about the age of 12.
"He was trying to protect me. I didn't find out I was adopted until I was 16 and then about how I was born, but then it all starting making sense to me."
In addition to boxing, Newbiggin says he hopes to work as a model after the transformation is complete.
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Boxer wants to fight as woman after sex change
Aug 3, 2009 at 9:42 AM
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Aug 3, 2009 at 9:44 AM
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This thread is useless without...........on second thought.........nah don't
Aug 3, 2009 at 9:47 AM
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Originally posted by Youngone:
This thread is useless without...........on second thought.........nah don't

Aug 3, 2009 at 10:44 AM
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New-Big-Ums?
Aug 3, 2009 at 12:04 PM
- fzrdave
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Wow, the lengths that some will go to win.
Aug 3, 2009 at 12:20 PM
- IWASATTHECATCH
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You know what this thread needs?
A topical theme song.
A topical theme song.
Aug 3, 2009 at 12:58 PM
- SybErkRimInAL
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hope he gets punched in the cooch, or whatever you'd call that tomahawk wound he'll be sporting.

Aug 3, 2009 at 1:03 PM
- Joecool
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I'd like to see him fight a woman. Let all those "men and women are equal" people to really see that we are not equal.
Aug 3, 2009 at 1:18 PM
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Boxers.
They crack me up.


Aug 3, 2009 at 1:21 PM
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Originally posted by Kolohe:
Boxers.They crack me up.
i know if he wanted to fight girls he should have just switched to MMA
Aug 3, 2009 at 2:05 PM
- NinerDreamer11
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Originally posted by valrod33:Originally posted by Kolohe:
Boxers.They crack me up.
i know if he wanted to fight girls he should have just switched to MMA
yea, to bad boxing is for pussies anywayz, explains his need for a sex change.
Go to MMA to ACTUALLY FIGHT!
Aug 3, 2009 at 2:08 PM
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Originally posted by valrod33:Originally posted by Kolohe:
Boxers.They crack me up.
i know if he wanted to fight girls he should have just switched to MMA
Sure Gina Carano would be happy kick the crap outta that drag queen boxer!!!

Aug 3, 2009 at 2:08 PM
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Originally posted by NinerDreamer11:Originally posted by valrod33:Originally posted by Kolohe:
Boxers.They crack me up.
i know if he wanted to fight girls he should have just switched to MMA
yea, to bad boxing is for pussies anywayz, explains his need for a sex change.
Go to MMA to ACTUALLY FIGHT!
yeah rolling around on the floor with men in spandex trying to dry hump the hell out of them is real manly
Aug 3, 2009 at 2:35 PM
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Originally posted by valrod33:Originally posted by NinerDreamer11:Originally posted by valrod33:Originally posted by Kolohe:
Boxers.They crack me up.
i know if he wanted to fight girls he should have just switched to MMA
yea, to bad boxing is for pussies anywayz, explains his need for a sex change.
Go to MMA to ACTUALLY FIGHT!
yeah rolling around on the floor with men in spandex trying to dry hump the hell out of them is real manly
It's not gay if there's no eye contact haha I honestly think boxing is more brutal than MMA
Aug 3, 2009 at 3:00 PM
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mr. garrison should not be able to fight woman