Roña Castro remembered Diego Maradona with a controversial anecdote linked to the night and drugs

Jorge “el Roña” Castro surprised in these hours in remembering his friendship with Diego Maradonatelling in detail the most controversial side of 10’s life, that of excesses and his drug addiction.

The former boxer participated as a guest in a streaming broadcast on Youtube and told an anecdote that went viral on social media due to the crudeness of his testimony.

As Diegola Roña, also nicknamed “Locomotive“, he was an idol of Argentine sport, in his case in the ring. In 1994 he was World Champion in the middleweight category, and his defense against John David Jackson in Philadelphia was an unforgettable knockout.

“It was the hand of God”he said in a conference after his left-handed shot, which went around the world and put him forever in the history of boxing.

Maradona was also united by his passion for Mouth but above all the fact of having shared a lot of time together when the one born in Caleta Olivia settled Italy to take a leap in your career. They became very close friends and almost became part of their family. Roña always matters Mr. Diego He was a boxing enthusiast and watched all his fights.

On Monday evening Castro was a guest at The Mad and the Sanea series that is broadcast on YouTube and is hosted by the journalist Flavio Azzaro and the former president of Independiente, Andrés Ducatenzeiler. In a relaxed environment, where the premise is to speak without filters, Roña spoke about Diego like never before and recreated a situation that she had to experience alongside her. All with laughter, but very loud.

“I had a friend of mine who did this to Diego, he made a letter disappear,” Roña began his story, describing Maradona’s encounter with a boy who wanted to perform a magic trick on him. “No, magic is what I do,” says number 10’s response.

And he concluded his story: “He went into the kitchen, came back and brought a silver plate, with some lines on it and said… ‘See? He has disappeared…'”. The ex-boxer’s story also included the gesture of “snorting” cocaine, which made the story even more crude.

Castro, 56, remained in the business once he decided to retire from boxing. Known for his personal experiences, such as having 15 “recognized” children and I have to have a few shots in the air too, his personality made him enter the house of Celebrity Big Brothera reality show that aired on Telefe in 2007 with great success.

“I tried cocaine in the United States, I almost died, I had tachycardia, I wanted to vomit. It wasn’t for me. I prefer to ‘get high’ with champagne and feel comfortable. I love champagne. Today, thanks to what I achieved with boxing “I can drink good wine, before I drank Termidor,” he said recently in an interview with journalist Germán Bellizzi, of TyC Sports.

There they also asked him about his friendship with Maradona and his excesses: “I never got involved in anything. It was neutral, everyone did what they wanted.. You have it there and if you want to take it, you take it. If you don’t want it, don’t take it. I won’t name names, but there are a lot of people in show business that I’ve seen drinking. Nobody can tell me. What I like is the game. I once went to the island of Saint Martin and won $187,000. In Monte Carlo I lived above the bridge where the racing cars pass and there was a casino there. “I had him nearby.”

And he expressed his opinion with a lot of anger about Diego’s death: “It seems to me that they let him die. Sons of bitches, living beings of shit. He was an idol of the world and they let him die. With all the money he had, I would have “They admitted him to a hospital inside the house. After his death, everything came to light. All those scourges around him were freeloaders. That’s why I hang out with my friends,” said Roña, who once called himself “the Maradona of boxing.”