Nick Ring Addresses the Gay Rumors...Sort Of.

I saw this article on OutSports, and I just had to throw my two cents in.  There is one certainty after every episode of The Ultimate Fighter...the message boards will be filled with "Is he or isn't he" discussion over Nick Ring's sexuality.  To be honest, the first time I saw him I also raised a brow, but I quickly realized this is just a guy supremely comfortable in his own sexuality.  He realizes that his chosen path involves rolling around on the ground with other dudes, and he embraces it.  All of his more "questionable" moments have come as a direct result of someone questioning his sexuality, such as the tooth brushing incident with Yager and McCray from episode 3 after they accused him of being gay for getting a rubdown from Charles Blanchard.  

Well, Ring addressed the rumors, sort of, on his blog for Heavy:

So here I am, it’s late and I am now happy and feeling good about my massage. My lower back is feeling good and it is definitely thanking me and I go to the washroom to brush my teeth and get ready for bed and McCray and Yager decide it is time for them gang up on me and "have a talk".

From their bedroom, McCray loudly asks me a loaded question that goes a little bit like "Hey Ring, Why would you get a massage from a dude at 3 AM?" I knew exactly where he was trying to go with this one so I thought fuck it – I’ll play, so I answered "because I’m a big queer".

They started laughing hard in disbelief at my remark, and I walked into their room and leaned my shoulder up against the doorway while I flossed my teeth.

I knew that my reply would likely take most of the wind out of their sails but being the couple of Neanderthals they are, they relented by saying that I’m standing gay and tried telling me that I need to change my posture blah blah blah. I just thought it was funny so just poured it on more until they dropped it…

I didn’t realize how funny that would actually look on camera, but I was just kind of doing my thang. Me and my friends always joke around like this and I guess some people aren’t used to that, I got labelled a queer in the house pretty fast due to some of the shit that comes out of my mouth hahaha. I wasn’t really too bothered by it though, I know who I am and my friends back home know me and will just laugh about it anyway.

All I can say is that some people look intimidating and some don’t and I guess I fall into the second category. But then again, I don’t spend a lot of time trying to look hardcore like a lot of MMA fighters, I been doing this long enough to realize that there are two types of guys out there. There are the guys who act tough and then there are guys who are tough. Acting tough and being tough are two completely different things and when I got into the house it didn’t take me to long to figure out who was going to be tough and who was just posing.

It seems to me that a guy who is so forthcoming with the jokes to make the homophobes nervous would have no problems admitting to actually being a homosexual, but perhaps I'm wrong?  Thoughts?  (Keep it CLEAN!)