cupey alto
05-29-2007, 01:38 AM
When Puerto Rico’s Pedro Montanez first arrived in Spain back in 1934 the local press called him the “devil” or, in Spanish, the “Diablo;” and a menace to all the local lightweights. Six months, several knockouts and a bunch of battered sparring partners later, they no longer called him “Diablo.” They were forced, not out of affection but out of respect, to call him “Don Diablo” or “Mr. Diablo.”
http://fightbeat.com/article_detail.php?AT=405
http://fightbeat.com/article_detail.php?AT=405