Openly gay boxer Yusaf Mack beats up online troll over slurs
Professional boxer Yusaf Mack, who is openly gay and an adult film actor, apparently applied his fighting skills outside the ring Saturday night at a Philadelphia-based barbershop. TMZ Sports was first to report the incident.
According to witnesses, the usually mild-mannered Mack unleashed his anger upon learning that an Internet troll, one who’d been harassing him on a regular basis, was inside the establishment. The man allegedly had a history of targeting Mack due to his sexual orientation.
So Mack found and began to pummel his harasser, who was getting his hair washed at the time of the attack. The brawl appeared to be one-sided, as punches from the hard-hitting Mack left the troll sprawled on the floor and unable to adequately defend himself.
What the punches failed to do, however, was silence the troll. According to TMZ, the man continued harassing Mack online with more homophobic slurs and claimed “me and him gonna fight again,” while refusing to provide his identity.
No arrests were made nor charges filed in relation to the incident as of publishing time.
Mack had a decent career as a professional boxer, going 31-8-2 in more than 14 years in the ring. He fought several former world champs, including Alejandro Berrio, Glen Johnson and Carl Froch.
The last fight of his (official) boxing career was a unanimous decision loss to Cory Cummings on Oct. 25, 2014.
