His worst enemy was himself.
At the age of 10, he hit three knives
in the ass of a teenager who dared to ruffle his hair;
At 13 he left school (he knows how to read and over time he learned to write in fits and starts) and still lives with the penance of having
abandoned his only son
as a baby, who is currently in his 30s.
Policarpo Díaz Arévalo (53), the sixth of the eight children of a first-class welder and a housewife, was predestined to
suffer and succeed.
In the streets of Vallecas
they fought
several times a day,
at school he hit
another colleague who sold palulús so that he would not compete with him and on another occasion he
threw lime
from the bathroom window that fell on a birthday student. The teachers looked at the hands of all the children. That day, Poli had washed them. When the teacher told him to show them to him, he snapped: "But Poli, if you never wash your hands ... It was you!"
To help his family he
sold cardboard and scrap metal,
boned pig heads, worked as a bricklayer and rented bicycles. At age 15, he enrolled in the El Rayo gym and began to learn boxing. In 1983 he
accused the organization of tongo
after having won a Spanish championship in Tenerife. Three years later he was already introducing himself as
"hello, I'm Poli Díaz and I put hosts like streetcars",
and people were freaking out.
At that time, the businessman
Enrique Sarasola Lertxundi
(father of the jockeys and entrepreneurs Gigi and Kike) nicknamed "the man with a thousand contacts" for his relationships with government presidents, aristocrats and billionaires, was its
promoter
. He installed him on his farm El Espinar (Segovia), had his own gym, a strict diet and at 21 he was European champion. Poli did not take long to become
the boxer of the jet set,
among whom were the Albertos, Ramón Mendoza or Fernández Tapias. Even the Emeritus was one of his fans. In one of his meetings in Zarzuela
he dared to tell the Monarch
that if he wanted to sell his decorations he knew some junk friends who could help him.
When Sarasola realized that his investment was weak due to
alleged vices,
he walked away from him.
After the distancing, Poli starred in
his epic fight for the world championship
against the legend Pernell Whitaker in the early morning of July 27, 1991. The athlete had one of the greatest
records in the history of
Spanish
television
since he saw 72% audience (two and a half million viewers).
To national frustration, Poli lost.
However, Whitaker's promoters offered him
800 million pesetas
(about five million euros) for six bouts in the United States, but he
turned
them
down
. In the next two years Poli
squandered his fortune.
He spent millions on
prostitutes, alcohol,
invited runners to
drugs
, sold out his houses and his collection of motorcycles and cars. All for vice. Nobody paid any attention to him. He sold his miseries to the press of the heart,
did porn next to Nacho Vidal
(
The colt runs wild
) and a cameo in
Torrente, the stupid arm of the law
(1998).
Many people were fat with him, but he showed that he did not mince words: "If the rich take drugs they are ill; if you are from the neighborhood, you are a junkie."
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In addition, he has had
serious problems with the law
since the early 1990s: he has been arrested for threats, reckless driving, assault on police officers, he has been stabbed for having debts with a gang, he was arrested again for taking one of the "taxis of drugs "and last June he was released from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria prison
after spending a month locked up
because he had a search and arrest warrant for a seven-year crime of assault.
At the peak of his career, a businessman enemy of the PSOE
offered him 35 million pesetas in exchange for information
(he did not accept) and several high-society ladies offered him money to sleep with them because someone so hard-hitting made them morbid (also he refused).
When he retired in 2001 after beating Colombian Luis Cardoso in Ripollet (Barcelona), Potro de Vallecas had been
eight times European champion
and seven times champion of Spain in light weight.
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In 2017 he met
his girlfriend Lola in the church of San Antón
of Father Ángel. She has been his lifeline. Although the pandemic happened in the Canary Islands where Lola has a house, the couple
lives in Vallecas in a ramshackle shack without electricity or water,
grows garlic, makes small reforms when possible and usually goes to bed at sunset. What does it live on? From a little
payment
that he and Lola have monthly, in addition to another little money that he receives each year from the World Boxing Council.
Two decades after his retirement, he
wants to return to the ring
next winter in Madrid.
And who knows, maybe he can fulfill his dream of facing Manny Pacquiao, one of the richest boxers in the world with a fortune of about 220 million dollars.
Disgusted
by the situation in the country, Poli ruled in a badass way that "politicians need an electrician to remove the plugs and a priest to distribute hosts."
But Poli would have distributed them, presumably, to whom he did not owe.
The Court of Violence against Women number 2 of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria decreed at the end of June his entry into provisional prison without bail as the
alleged perpetrator of
habitual
abuse
and another of mistreatment within the family.
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