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ALBUQUERQUE, N. Tracy Porter Jersey .M. —Johnny Tapia, the
five-time boxing champion whose turbulent career was marked by cocaine
addiction, alcohol, depression and run-ins with the law, was found dead Sunday
at his Albuquerque home. He was 45. Authorities were called to the house at
about 7:45 p.m. on Sunday, spokesman Robert Gibbs said. The death didnt appear
to be suspicious, he said. Tapia won five championships in three weight classes,
winning the WBA bantamweight title, the IBF and WBO junior bantamweight titles
and the IBF featherweight belt. He was regarded as the consummate underdog by
his fans. The more trouble he found outside the ring—including several stints
in jail—the more they rallied around him. In a 1990s-era feud with fellow
Albuquerque boxer and former world champion Danny Romero, Tapias fans anointed
him with the slang Spanish title of “Burques Best.” But his life was also marked
by tragedy. He was orphaned at 8, his mother stabbed 26 times with a screwdriver
and left to die. In 2007, he was hospitalized after an apparent cocaine
overdose. Several days later, his brother-in-law and his nephew were killed in a
car accident on their way to Albuquerque to see the ailing boxer. Tapia was
banned from boxing for 3 1/2 years in the early 90s because of his cocaine
addiction. But he knocked out Henry Martinez to win the WBO bantamweight title
in 1994, and won four more championships over the next eight years. He last
fought in June, outpointing Mauricio Pastrana in an eight-round decision. He
finished with a 59-5-2 record. Gibbs said an autopsy will be performed in the
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