Tapia

Johnny Tapia was born in Albuquerque. Boxing became his life. He was a hard and punishing fighter in the ring. He won title belts in three different weight classes. The other side of his life was very hard. When he was eight his mother was abducted and killed. That never left him. He struggled with drug addiction for years. He lived with problems of mental health. Several times he tried to take his own life. His career moved between those two extremes. Triumphs and collapses followed one another. The documentary tells it without hiding anything. The boxer’s own voice is in the film. Johnny Tapia appears in the eighty one minute documentary. It is an American production Eddie Alcazar finished in 2013.