He mostly avoids the chips he's maintaining competition weight in case he gets a fight soon. "I actually switch between both," Manuel says of the pronunciation, sitting across the table from me at a Mexican restaurant in Boyle Heights, the Los Angeles neighborhood where he lived in the summer of 2019. Patricio Manuel (pronounced man-you-all) was born July 22, 1985, to an Irish American mother and an African American father. WHILE THE ANNOUNCER might have rolled the R in "Patricio" and bent the eñe in "Mañuel" - and even with "Cacahuate," the Mexican Spanish word for peanut, as his nom de guerre - Manuel is not Latinx.
Though he doesn't know when he'll compete again, Manuel trains like his next chance is around the corner.
#ISBOXER EVE TWO PICTURES PROFESSIONAL#
Manuel had just become the first transgender man to box professionally in the United States - and the first to win.īut two and a half years since that professional debut against Hugo Aguilar, since making that promise, Manuel has yet to return to the ring and does not know whether he ever will again. Now, his face rapidly swelling, Manuel addressed his hecklers directly: "I hear some fans aren't happy it's OK, I'll be back. He spent months at a time traveling to amateur exhibitions, weighing in, only to watch his opponents refuse to get into the ring with him. Since his amateur debut in 2016, Manuel has entered the ring for only three official fights - a slim record for any boxer to take into the pros. "It's been almost two years since I've been in the ring." "I think if people knew what it took to get to this moment," he said into the mic held in front of him. Manuel stood in the ring unfazed, under the lighting truss that blinded him. An angry male voice rasped, "Liar, liar, pants on fire!" Manuel's partner, Amita Swadhin, raised a middle finger at the jeers. Then, like smoke seeping through a vent, the arena began to fill with a chorus of boos. The applause and cheers came first, concentrated in Section VV, packed with Manuel's family, biological and chosen alike. and now undefeated in his professional career: Patricio 'Cacahuate' Manuel!" THE VOICE of the announcer yo-yoed across the boxing arena at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California.
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