Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Three Decade British Boxing Promoter Frank Maloney Is Now Living As A Woman Named Kellie
By Robert Brizel, RCM Head Boxing Corresondent
London, UK (August 8th, 2014)–Transsexual figures of professional sports is no longer a taboo subject, it is discussed with sass and class. Dr. Richard Raskind became Dr. Renee Richards in tennis. Nobody could ever guess world famous boxing promoter Frank Maloney of Great Britain, best known in his three decades of boxing promotion for promoting world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis, had become a woman. “It was something I wanted to suppress-I didn’t want to be seen as different. I was born into a male world,” explained Mr. Maloney.
Frank turned Kellie Maloney Daily Mirror Interview on YouTube
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Married with three children, and now retired from boxing, Maloney, 61, after years of anger management consultations, and gender identity counseling, has been living for over a year as a woman named Kellie, in preparation for gender reassignment surgery.
Such a topic would have at one time been taboo in boxing and other professional sports. It is not yet known how boxing commissions will react with legal interpretation in regards to licensing when fighters themselves, rather than the ring promoters, managers, trainers, referees and officials, undergoing gender reassignment. If Frank turned Kellie Maloney is any indicator, the future of professional boxing may require a hard look at the complex interpretation of the rules.
How will professional boxers represented by Frank Maloney view the new Kellie Maloney? “I don’t know. They make their own decisions,” explained Ms. Maloney.
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