Boxing: Alvarez's crazy life comes to London

American Johnny Tapia, boxing’s wild man, brings his fistic talents to London’s East End tonight when he meets Argentina’s Eduardo Alvarez at York Hall, Bethnal Green.

Boxing: Alvarez's crazy life comes to London

American Johnny Tapia, boxing’s wild man, brings his fistic talents to London’s East End tonight when he meets Argentina’s Eduardo Alvarez at York Hall, Bethnal Green.

Tapia’s incredible life would make a Hollywood movie - his father was shot dead before he was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and he watched his mother being drugged, raped and murdered when he was only seven.

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