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Former boxing promoter to have sex-change operation

Frank Maloney, 61, guided Lennox Lewis to heavyweight title.

TOM GRALISH / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER IT'S A CASE of bass hysteria along the Delaware River yesterday as a crowd (above) - including Nicholas Orsino (left), his cousin Zach Orsino (center) and Zach's father, Frank (right) - show that they've fallen hook, line and sinker for, and are waiting to get an autograph from, master fisherman Michael Iaconelli. (That's Iaconelli's face the trio are displaying.) And that's Philly-born South Jerseyan Iaconelli (left) displaying one of his catches at the Great Plaza on Penn's Landing after winning the Bassmaster Elite Series Professional Tournament, which drew about 100 of the world's best anglers to our local waters over the weekend.
TOM GRALISH / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER IT'S A CASE of bass hysteria along the Delaware River yesterday as a crowd (above) - including Nicholas Orsino (left), his cousin Zach Orsino (center) and Zach's father, Frank (right) - show that they've fallen hook, line and sinker for, and are waiting to get an autograph from, master fisherman Michael Iaconelli. (That's Iaconelli's face the trio are displaying.) And that's Philly-born South Jerseyan Iaconelli (left) displaying one of his catches at the Great Plaza on Penn's Landing after winning the Bassmaster Elite Series Professional Tournament, which drew about 100 of the world's best anglers to our local waters over the weekend.Read more
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FORMER BOXING promoter Frank Maloney announced in a newspaper interview yesterday that he is undergoing a sex change. Maloney, 61, who guided Lennox Lewis to the world heavyweight title in the 1990s, told Britain's Sunday Mirror newspaper that he is now living as a woman under the name Kellie.

The twice-married Maloney ended his illustrious career last October and told the paper he has been undergoing hormone treatment for 2 years in preparation for a sex-change operation.

"I was born in the wrong body and I have always known I was a woman," Maloney was quoted as saying by the Mirror. "I can't keep living in the shadows. That is why I am doing what I am today. Living with the burden any longer would have killed me.

"What was wrong at birth is now being medically corrected. I have a female brain. I knew I was different from the minute I could compare myself to other children. I wasn't in the right body. I was jealous of girls."

Maloney said his boxing career helped bring in enough money to walk away from the sport and live a new life as a woman.

"It was something that I was determined to suppress and keep wrapped up because I didn't want to be seen different," Maloney said in a video interview published on the Mirror website.

"[Boxing] took up all of my time. It gave me a complete focus. It was something I thought I had to be successful in because I thought if I failed in that, where do I go?"

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