“I’m Johnny Tapia, I’m Johnny Tapia.”The young Diego Sanchez knew what he wanted to be when he grew up, as he shadowboxed in a local mobile home park in Albuquerque. More importantly, in addition to wanting to be a fighter, he knew the kind of fighter he wanted to portray to the world.Johnny Tapia.When Sanchez was growing up, THE sports franchise in the ABQ was Tapia, a tattooed dervish whose harrowing upbringing wasn’t soothed in the slightest by his ascension to the top of the boxing world. But through the good, bad, and ugly of his life, he retained a devoted fan following that loved the tr … Read the Full Article Here
Diego Sanchez: Still Chasing Greatness
“I’m Johnny Tapia, I’m Johnny Tapia.”The young Diego Sanchez knew what he wanted to be when he grew up, as he shadowboxed in a local mobile home park in Albuquerque. More importantly, in addition to wanting to be a fighter, he knew the kind of fighter he wanted to portray to the world.Johnny Tapia.When Sanchez was growing up, THE sports franchise in the ABQ was Tapia, a tattooed dervish whose harrowing upbringing wasn’t soothed in the slightest by his ascension to the top of the boxing world. But through the good, bad, and ugly of his life, he retained a devoted fan following that loved the tr … Read the Full Article Here