Chevy, el Ponzoñú

Chevy, el Ponzoñú is a fictional Puerto Rican television character, played by Puerto Rican comedian Melwin Cedeño. It debuted on Puerto Rican TV in 1990.

Chevy is a native of Ponce, Puerto Rico. His most infamous moment came during the Julio César Chávez-Hector Camacho world championship boxing fight in Las Vegas, September 15, 1992. Camacho, a personal friend of Cedeño, asked him to perform Puerto Rico's national anthem, La Borinqueña, as Chevy, el Ponzoñú, on Pay Per View and in front of a national audience in many world countries where the fight was telecast.

What followed next was wide controversy in Puerto Rico. Many people did not agree with the designation of Cedeño as Chevy el Ponzoñú to sing Puerto Rico's anthem, signaling other singers as their choice to do that task.

Cedeño defended his representation as Chevy in Las Vegas and his performance by saying, on Vea Magazine and other publications, that he sang from his heart, and he even suggested that Chávez's guest, Vicente Fernandez, could not memorize the Mexican national anthem and had to read it from a small piece of paper.

Chevy el Ponzoñú was a popular character in Puerto Rican television.

In 1990s Chevy el Ponzoñú defeated Cholón in a wrestling match. Some of his professional wrestler friends interfered during the match to help Chevy when things were not going well for him. The match was televised in Telemundo as part of their prime time programming. Cholón never recovered from that defeat and went into a downward spiral after that.

Not many people are aware that even when his name is Chevy he never liked American cars. Actually, some people has suggested he hated Chevrolet cars. Chevy drove a VW Bettle (a "Volky") during Con Lo Que Cuenta Este Pais TV show.

Chevy was in love with Super Pan's daughter, La Beba.