Former Boxing Title Contender Says he Was Drugged Before Filming Porn Video

The whispers could be heard for some time around boxing gyms in Philadelphia.

“Did you hear about Yusaf Mack?” they went. “Did you hear Yusaf Mack made a gay porn video?”

Last week, the rumors became reality when a video surfaced showing the former light heavyweight contender engaged in an explicit threesome with two other men. In a front page story from Philadelphia Daily News’ Jenice Armstrong on Tuesday, Mack (31-8-2, 17 KOs) claimed that he was slipped a pill and a shot of vodka before he was coerced into appearing on camera.

“My whole life, I’ve been what they call a whoremonger. I love females,” Mack, 35, said in the story. “The only time I touch a man is when I’m in the ring fighting.”

Mack said he was short on money in June when he decided to go to the Bronx to shoot a porn scene, arranged by someone he met on Facebook earlier in the year. After arriving at the apartment complex where the filming would take place, Armstrong wrote, Mack noticed numerous naked women walking around.

“I think, ‘It’s about to go down.’ I needed a drink or something,” Mack said in the story. “They gave me a pill and a shot of vodka. I took the pill down with the vodka.”

According to Mack, the only thing he remembers after that is waking up on a train in Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station with $4,500 cash in his pocket. A father of 10 children who is engaged to be married, Mack maintained “that he’s strictly heterosexual and that the whole thing is all a big mistake,” Armstrong wrote.

Mack told Armstrong that he didn’t become aware of the video until Oct. 16, “when he was on his way to his grandmother’s Gold Coast Lounge, at 40th Street and Lancaster Avenue, and noticed people behaving strangely toward him.”

“I’m wondering why everybody is walking past me and not speaking to me,” Mack told Armstrong.

Sherdog.com spoke with more than 30 people associated with Philadelphia boxing during the Briscoe Awards at Xfinity Live. None would speak on the record regarding Mack’s video.

Joseph Santoliquito is the president of the Boxing Writer's Association of America and a frequent contributor to Sherdog.com's mixed martial arts and boxing coverage. His archive can be found here.