Who is David Diaz?
What would he want people to think about him in regards to his persona outside the ring? “That I’m just a guy, a regular guy who you can come up to and have a conversation with and laugh and joke around,” Diaz said via telephone. “Easy going guy.” Diaz grew up in the rough Humboldt Park section of Chicago. He was one of nine siblings, but the only one born in Chicago and not Mexico. One of his brothers passed away in 1998. “It was hard for my parents to feed us because we came from such a big family,” Diaz said. “Since I was the last one, I was the baby. I had it pretty much easy. My brothers and sisters are the ones who went through the hard stuff so they could make it easier for me. “We lived in a rough neighborhood. But did I experience the roughness? I had good parents and a good activities base that kept me away from that and boxing was one of them.” Certainly, he said, he was not the perfect kid. “I had my little trouble stints, but I guess I was always fearful of what my parents
