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Boxer Rob Newbiggin Undergoing Sex Change…Will Continue Boxing As “Mercedes”
Rob Newbiggin, 44, is a British boxer who is being driven out of his town after revealing he will undergo a sex-change operation. Rob Newbiggin will fight as a woman, calling himself “Mercedes”. Read more on Rob Newbiggin below!
Rob Newbiggin will begin his life as a woman following his sex-change operation. But Newbiggin says, “I have lost every friend I have ever had in the world in this town” after a tabloid revealed his plans.
Newbiggin says the tabloid made him out to be “some kind of freak.”
“My friends don’t want to know me. I’ve got people winding their windows down shouting abuse at me while I go for my run — that’s why we are having to relocate. I have to think about my kids,” Newbiggin said.
Rob Newbiggin’s wife Emma totally supports her husband, and will stand by him through the sex change. “Emma has been my rock,” Newbiggin said. “She understands what I’m going through and we are going to stay together.”
Newbiggin feels it won’t matter if he is seen as mother or father, as long as he is a good parent “And I think I’ll be a better parent as a woman. I haven’t provided enough financial stability in my male life for my children.”
Newbiggin is scheduled to fight Michael Gomez on August 14 in his last male fight, but following this fight he will apply for a female license from the Boxing Board of Control so that he can continue his 20-year boxing career.
Rob is also an artist at Dobbies Garden Centre on Bentham’s Way. He is well known for his ural entitled ‘The Scene in the Park’ in Botanic Gardens which raised thousands of pounds for Derian House Children’s Hospice, with people paying to have their faces featured in the mural.