Book Review: Mi Vida Loca: The Crazy Life of Johnny Tapia

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Some people love to watch fights, they love to see people getting hit, and they love the art of boxing, the physical confrontation, the battle. And I do love watching a good scrap, try to watch as many as I can, but more than that I like to follow the fistic universe. The politics with the networks, the promoters, and the fighters. The fighters’ lives and how their worlds are turned upside down by a loss or a win. [details]

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GREAT ARTICLE! and because of that i will pick up the ring magazine and check out your article.

great review, of the book i havn't heard anybody talk about the book yet, but sounds like a good book.

i too though romero was going to win, he was awsome when he was coming up the ranking he looked very powerfull. But i think he never found his fighting style. he boxed too much against tapia, he should have ****** more toe to toe, but it was a good fight, lots of drama. i do think romero got robberd against vuyan bunu, romero should have been the one to get a title shot against hamed, he would have had a punchers chance, would have been great fight.

belive it or not, i started watching boxing when tapia just made a comback and was out of jail, and i swear i thought this was the baddest white boy i had ever seen fight. about 4 fighters later i found out he was chicano, i felt dumb, but his fighting style was so damn entertaining and how he always played to the crowd and threw a million punchs was crazy. Great fighter, i didn't get to see some of his fights when he went to hbo but i seen many and he was an excellent,exciting great fighter. i wish him the best, i hope he and romero are good friends once again. I know romero is fighting soon under his promotional company maybe we can see a simlar golden boy hopkin, mosley partnership in tapia and romero, they share a lot of history. i'll have to pick up his book somtime.

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i was with tapia for awhile when he was at my gym for like a month. pretty cool guy

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i was with tapia for awhile when he was at my gym for like a month. pretty cool guy

im not being sarcastic when i say did you get to sparr with him?

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im not being sarcastic when i say did you get to sparr with him?

naw. i think my coach thought i was to big for him. but he's ****in johnny tapia so he sparred at another gym.he jus did all his training here. he was going to buy a house close to my gym but i think it fell threw so he left. but with him came frietas and salitas. cause theres all coached by the same ppl. i saw frietas get owned by a sparring partner

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naw. i think my coach thought i was to big for him. but he's ****in johnny tapia so he sparred at another gym.he jus did all his training here. he was going to buy a house close to my gym but i think it fell threw so he left. but with him came frietas and salitas. cause theres all coached by the same ppl. i saw frietas get owned by a sparring partner

did you tape it? and was this when frietas was getting ready for raheem? and was it your team-mate he sparred?

a co-worker at a job i had was a boxer and he said the gym he trained at, tapia was at the gym and he sparred a few fighters their too.

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I always underestimated Tapia because he wasn’t a big puncher and because he held the WBO title and always thought Romero was going to beat Tapia since he was the child prodigy with rare power,


Yup, so did I.

I thought Romero was surely going to win that fight, and of course I was pulling for Tapia.

But to be honest, that was a battle of wills.

And nobody could ever say Romero wasn't in fighting shape, because I remember that fight like it was yesterday.



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I always underestimated Tapia because he wasn’t a big puncher and because he held the WBO title and always thought Romero was going to beat Tapia since he was the child prodigy with rare power,


Yup, so did I.

I thought Romero was surely going to win that fight, and of course I was pulling for Tapia.

But to be honest, that was a battle of wills.

And nobody could ever say Romero wasn't in fighting shape, because I remember that fight like it was yesterday.

I lost a bet with a friend, i was pulling for romero, but he mixed it up and boxed too much. but damn, i remember waiting and waiting for this fight to happend, tons of drama, i havn't seen the fight in years though i have it in my boxing collection, but damn, romero was a baddass going their the ranks, so was tapia, that guy always brought it, he always seemed to have the crowd hollowering and clapping, he used to be crazy in the ring too,.

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did you tape it? and was this when frietas was getting ready for raheem? and was it your team-mate he sparred?

a co-worker at a job i had was a boxer and he said the gym he trained at, tapia was at the gym and he sparred a few fighters their too.

naw i didnt tape it. it was a former national amatuer champion. i sparred with him when i first startin boxing i didnt do to well. espcially with jordans on. but i did hurt him and bloody his nose it was funny though. he jus kept on frietas and frietas couldnt do **** ahaha.and this was when he was going to fight a no body in brazail. i think after the diego fight.well i didnt go to the gym all the time so i dont know if he sparred ppl at my gym but i know tapia did for other gyms. we had rocky ruarz or how ever u spell his last name spar frietas also.

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I lost a bet with a friend, i was pulling for romero, but he mixed it up and boxed too much. but damn, i remember waiting and waiting for this fight to happend, tons of drama, i havn't seen the fight in years though i have it in my boxing collection, but damn, romero was a baddass going their the ranks, so was tapia, that guy always brought it, he always seemed to have the crowd hollowering and clapping, he used to be crazy in the ring too,.

Like I've stated, that was one of the most important single fights I've ever seen in boxing.

I don't think people realized how good those two were going in, and it had the feel of a Kostya Tszyu v.s. Zab Judah type fight going into it......and ended up with much better results.



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