Juan Diaz

Juan Diaz is a great Mexican American fighter who was born in Houston Texas on September 17,1983. He is undefeated with 33 victories and 17 KO's. Diaz is the current unified WBA & WBO & IBF lightweight champion. He began his professional boxing career when he was 16 years old. The reason why he started his professional career so early is because he tried out for the Mexican Olympic team but was not able to compete in Sydney 2000 because he was to young and did not want to wait another two years. The reason why I decided to talk about Juan "Baby Bull" Diaz is because he is a great role model for many Mexican American since he is a professional boxer and is currently a junior political science major at the University of Houston. This is very important because it helps break the false stereotype that Americans have about Latino boxers in the US. Which is that they are streetfighters who decided to make a living out of boxing some examples would be Bobby Chacon and the most recent Fernando Vargas.