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Noticed this book at Amazon:

Mi Vida Loca: The Crazy and Unbelievable Life of Johnny Tapia

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... /ref=nosim

Has anyone read a review? I didn't realise this was out - it must be worth a read considering his life. Has anyone read it or heard about it?

My best guess is it's no good AT ALL - no reviews anywhere, and written by a German lady who has never written anything before...
His NUMBER ONE FAN perhaps??

Book Description
There is only one winner in boxing. Fighting against your opponent and fighting against your own inner demons become one in the same. Those who survive both in and out of the ring are beloved worldwide. Those who do not spiral downward into drugs, prison, and even murder. ...[My] life's been pretty tragic, remarks Johnny. But in the ring, it's been a blessing. Mi Vida Loca is not just a nickname for Johnny, but a legendary tale of a life lived over the edge and back.

From the Inside Flap
"The nuclear reactor I have inside, the crazy machine that drives me all the time, the manic energy that drives me beyond my best instincts and my best heart and my best wishes for other people, and for myself, it’s like a machine that has possessed me. I could never stop an impulse. And I never knew why I did afterwards. Couldn’t remember half the time. Just got some idea in my head and had to act on it. It’s like the usual moment of judgment somebody has, just wasn’t there.
Years later I would learn about my bi-polar disorder. Years later I understood the chemical misfiring in the brain. But back then I was dousing my crazy fire cracker firing brain with so many illegal substances it just made for a cocktail of insanity. My crazy life was inside of me, too."

~ JOHNNY TAPIA, from Mi Vida Loca cocktail of insanity. My crazy life was inside of me, too."


The reviews for this are good -

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