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When he left Mexico, in his adolescence, he wanted to be a bullfighter. By the time he settled in Stockton, California, he worked in the fields picking cherries. A friend, who was too young to drive, asked Alvaro Lopez to drive him to a girl’s house. Alvaro met the girl’s family when he dropped off the friend. The father was a fight trainer/promoter and the sister became Alvaro’s love interest. The strong looking Lopez caught the eye of the fight trainer who convinced him to try boxing as he began dating the man’s daughter, Beatrice. “I think he was testing” or trying to scare him away says Beatrice, affectionately called ‘Beano’. [details]
