Featherweight Orlando “The Phenomenon” Cruz, the first openly gay professional boxer in the history of the sport, proposed to his longtime boyfriend José Manuel via a public Facebook video.
In the video, which for some reason is no longer available, Cruz expressed his love for Manuel, as translated by NBC Latino:
I wanted to tell you how much I need you and how much I miss you. I know you are a person that means a lot to me and that supports my career and respects it which is very important, but above all you are always there giving me that push that I need. Now more than ever that I have an important fight coming up for the World Championship. I want to tell you that you are a very special person in my life. I am a little nervous, but I want to tell you and share with your friends and my friends if you want to marry me. I want you to be part of my life and me be part of yours.
Manuel responded with a video of his own, accepting the proposal:
I want to say yes. I accept marrying you because I love you and adore you. Yes, I do want to marry you because I love you, I love you, I love you very much. We will keep going forward and you will see how happy we will be. I love you papi from my heart.
It’s gonna be hard slipping a wedding band over those boxing gloves, but true love, as we all know, conquers all. Mazel, kids!
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Shadeaux
WONDERFUL! Cute couple. Congratz to them!!!
Aries3dc
This man proposed to his partner on Facebook?!? Dear God, help us!
Scribe38
@Aries3dc: I sort of had the same reaction. I don’t like public proposals but good for them. Wish them the best. And Tom if your reading this a silver ring over dinner is good enough for me 😉
Kangol
Qué buen chévere! Congratulations to both of them, and I hope they have a very happy life together!
Gigi Gee
¡Felicidades chicos!
mattsy
attention whores
John
Luv u guys
deltabadhand
Weird. I am a FB friend to Orlando, (don’t actually know him) and I never saw him propose in his feed video or otherwise. I only saw him announce afterwards when dude had said yes and then Orlando changed his relationship status to “Engaged”. I guess I could have missed it…
mz.sam
@Aries3dc: God has nothing to do with it if the happy couple are Atheists…no matter, to each his own.
Bravo and Felicidades, guys!!!
PJ
@deltabadhand: I think the video was actually a private video that somehow ended up beinon the net.
Anyway, a facebook video wouldn’t be the way I propose to someone, but he said yes so the rest doesn’t really matter.
Dakotahgeo
Cooooool beans! Absolute best wishes to the happy couple and a long wedded life to the happy guys!