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Nobody who knew Johnny Tapia can be remotely surprised that he was found dead inside his Albuquerque, N.M., home on Sunday.
The only surprise, perhaps, is that he survived the first four times he was declared dead.

Tapia won major world championships in three weight classes and was one of the elite fighters of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Despite his brilliance in the ring, he was far better known for a life story that was far stranger than any fiction novel could ever be.
An 89-word passage from his 2010 autobiography, "Mi Vida Loca," probably best sums up the sad life of this small, troubled and talented man.

"My name is Johnny Lee Tapia. I was born on Friday the 13th. A Friday in February of 1967. To this day I don't know if that makes me lucky or unlucky. When I was eight I saw my mother murdered. I never knew my father. He was murdered before I was born. I was raised as a pit bull. Raised to fight to the death. Four times I was declared dead. Four times they wanted to pull life support. And many more times I came close to dying."

Sadly, on Sunday, he did. A spokesman for the Albuquerque, N.M., police department told Yahoo! Sports a body found in a home in the city's northwest section was believed to be Tapia's. He said circumstances do not appear to be suspicious and that the cause of death will be determined at autopsy. His death was confirmed shortly thereafter.

Tapia won world championships at super flyweight, bantamweight and featherweight, relying on guile, cunning and a barely controlled fury.
He ripped off punches in rapid-fire manner, as though he was trying to knock out all the demons that were attacking him. In the ring, he stayed calm amid all manner of chaos, keeping his cool as punches flew from all directions at his head and body. He'd duck, step to the side and return fire with remarkable accuracy.

It was when the gym doors were closed and the lights were turned off that Tapia couldn't win. Death was his constant companion. His mother was raped, stabbed repeatedly with a screwdriver and chained to the back of a truck. When he tried to tell family members what he saw, no one believed the 8-year-old until it was too late.

He saw friends murder and murdered. He ducked bullets more often than he did punches.

He went through hell in the ring with a smile because it was a breeze compared to his life outside it.

He nearly didn't make it through the second day of his marriage. On his wedding night, his cousins approached his new bride, Teresa, and said to her, "Why don't you go back there and see what you married."

Teresa Tapia walked into a bedroom in her new mother-in-law's home and saw her husband of a few hours shooting himself in the arm with a needle.
His heart stopped and he was declared dead in her car.

He inflicted intense amounts of pain on those he loved with his frequent bouts with drugs and numerous brushes with death, yet he remained a chipper and friendly man who never would simply say hello. If you were a Tapia friend, he'd throw a bear hug on you and squeeze, holding the embrace as if he forever would be safe if he never let go.

But the only place in his life where he truly was safe was in a boxing ring. He was 59-5-2 with 30 knockouts in a professional boxing career that covered 23 years, more than half his life. As an amateur, he won more than 100 fights and earned five New Mexico Golden Gloves titles and two national Golden Gloves championships.

Tapia never did quit fighting, inside or outside of the ring. He nearly died of a cocaine overdose in 2007, recovered and returned to fight three more times.
That he reached 45 was something of a miracle. He always said he expected to be dead long before he turned 40.

In his book, he wrote, "My mother was murdered when she was 32. I didn't think I would outlive her. I never thought I'd make it past my own 32nd birthday. I didn't even want to make it past her 32nd birthday. After turning 31, I could feel that time was coming on. It started growing in the back of my mind, and it was always there in my head. I was counting down the days, weeks, and months to the time that I would be the age she was when she died. I started to feel that time was running out for me."

Time ran out, finally, on Sunday.

He fought to win and he fought to survive. In the ring, he was knocked down just twice, once in his second pro fight in 1988 and then again in his final bout in 2011.

He got up both times to win.

On Sunday, though, the count reached 10.

This was a life he simply couldn't win.

France Football correspondent Philippe Auclair tells BBC Radio 5 live he is "surprised" by doubts over the publication's claims that Didier Drogba has told his team-mates that he is to leave Chelsea.

Chelsea and Drogba's representatives poured cold water on the claims but, stressing the "absolute authenticity" of the magazine's quotes, Auclair said the information had come from a diary Drogba had been keeping for France Football.

Source Bbc sports

We will surely miss you The Drog.

***Burst out singing*** Their is only one Drogba.... There is only one Drogba.... We will miss U, We will surely miss U!

People criticizing Chelsea's defensive display, forget that Chelsea scored plenty during campaign. They attacked and scored when needed. Against Napoli, they had to score 4 and they did. Against Barca, reduced to 10 men at their own backyard in front of 100'000 Barca supporters, they scored 2. And Bayern needed 80 minutes on their home to score a goal. But when Chelsea needed to attack and score a goal, they did it in just under 8 minutes.

Please don't say Chelsea didn't attack! They scored at least a goal more than any of their opponents. It's just their offense was far more efficient than their opponents' and their defense was the meanest by far.

As for Roberto Di Matteo... He was a coach of League One team a goal down in playoffs 3 years ago, a coach of a Premiership club 2 years ago, sacked and jobless from West Brom 1 year ago. And now, he's a Champion and a Conqueror of Europe. A true Cinderella story!!!

All those millions spent on World Class managers just to win 1 cup. So many Managers with huge ego's. And in the end it came down to an interim Manager to do the job properly!!!.

Roberto Di Matteo has done something that not even 'the Special One' himself could do - win the Champions League with Chelsea. Fully deserves to be given the manager's job.

Roberto Di Matteo Has Won The UCL. Drogba Retires To The Bahamas. Torres joins #Mavin league.

Chelsea were Down and out and yet revived by the great talisman THE DROG!.

Who is writing this script?

Where is the Goal by a bald player predicted by TB Joshua in the first half?

Football loving 'psychic' llama predicts Chelsea Champions League glory

Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/oddballs/899432-football-loving-psychic-llama-predicts-chelsea-champions-league-glory#ixzz1vDC0pv8v

I wish my vacuum suck like thread!

By Femi Aribisala


I was a loving husband until I became a "born again" Christian.Then I discovered certain things written by Paul in the bible appointing me the head of my wife.I eagerly accepted the appointment. Jesus reveals that the worst kind of evil is the one which is presumed to have a religious sanction. I might be a murderer but in my heart-of-hearts I know it is wrong to kill.However, if the church convinces me that by killing men I am doing the work of God, then I can kill with gusto and without any conscience.


Paul say: "Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything." (Ephesians 5:22-24).

Even though this is addressed to wives and not to husbands, it was music to my ears.I thanked God that he deemed it fit to make me head and not tail.As far as I was concerned, it gave me the divine sanction to lord it over my wife. Those who know my wife will immediately recognise that such presumed lordship would be fiercely contested.It took a few battle-scars and the tutelage of the Holy Spirit for me to recognise this scripture which gave me putative authority over my wife "in everything" is morally and spiritually bankrupt.

Pauline fallacy

In classically Pauline fashion, the scripture is full of inherent contradictions.Christian wives cannot say Jesus is Lord on the one hand (I Corinthians 8:6); and say husband is Lord on the other.Jesus says: "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other." (Matthew 6:24).It is fundamentally irreverent for Paul to ascribe equal status to the husband "as to the Lord" in the life of the wife.

Paul says: "I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God." (I Corinthians 11:3).This is preposterous.It is not only unscriptural, it is unworkable.In the Old Testament, Deborah was a judge in Israel. (Judges 4:4-7).This made her the head of all the men by divine sanction. Today, let a man go and work in Nigeria's Ministry of Finance and tell the female Minister; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, that "the head of woman is man."He will not last on the job.

Jesus would never make the man the head of the woman.That would displace God; the one and only head Jesus prescribes for everybody.Indeed, Jesus does not give authority to a man over another human-being.He says to his disciples: "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. Yet it shall not be so among you." (Matthew 20:25-26).The only authority Jesus gives his disciples is over demons: "I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you." (Luke 10:19).

Matrimonial dictatorship

Paul is in error and he leads many Christian men into error.He has created a situation where, in Christian homes, the abuse of wives by husbands is rampant.The Christian husband asserts his "Paul-given" right to control his wife's life.He uses Pauline scriptures and chauvinistic church doctrine to enforce his presumptive right to tell her what to do.He demands her unquestioning submission to his whims and caprices.There is often little or no mutuality or loving consideration here.It is either his way or the highway.When the Christian man marries, he does not only marry a wife.He marries a cook, a washer-woman, a sex-slave and a maid, all in one Pauline package for the fee of a dowry.Every morning, he wakes up saying: "Thank you, Jesus!"

But it is all thanks to Paul that many a Christian husband believes his wife's feelings and opinions are inconsequential. He may discredit them on principle or specifically because "Adam was not deceived, but the woman." (1 Timothy 2:14).Or, he may give lip-service to respecting her views, but later disparage them as "emotional and not logical."

Thereby, the Christian wife, who has been ransomed by Christ, is put back into bondage.She is constrained to dissociate from certain friends and family-members because of the need to keep "His Majesty" happy. She avoids some of her favourite activities for the sake of "keeping the peace."If she objects to her Lord-husband's hea-vy-handedness, she is castigated as "rebellio-us," and "spiritually im-mature."If she questions his opinions and decisions or disagrees with them, his lordship might just beat her up so that "the will of God" may be done in her life.

But it is not the will of God that the wife should play second-fiddle to her husband.It is the will of Paul.It is the will of God that all men and women should submit to God.Marriage is not about doing of the will of the husband.It is about the doing of the will of God.The Christian husband who operates on the premise of my will be done has set up himself for a cantankerous marriage.

Servant husbands

Let me speak directly to my power-drunk husband colleagues who would have me excommunicated for daring to love our female adversaries.No matter the forcefulness of your dictatorship at home, I assure you your wife resents you.She may be kneeling down for you on the outside, but she is standing up to you on the inside.If you would just take the time to study the words of Jesus, you would see that your house is built on sand.Sooner than later, it will fall.

Even if the husband were to be the head of his wife; that would still not be to his advantage.A Christian head is different from a secular head.Jesus says: "Whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave; just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many." (Matthew 20:27-28 ).This means even Paul's position ends up making the husband the servant of his wife.

When there was disagreement between Abraham and Sarah over Ishmael, God did not take sides with Abraham as some bogus head of his wife.God declared his own overriding will, which happened to agree with Sarah and not with Abraham. (Genesis 21:9-12).That is the role of God in the Christian home.Every decision is referred and deferred to him.

Because we fail to understand this, Christian men make lousy husbands.If you don't agree with me, you don't need to argue.Just prove me wrong in your home.


http://odili.net/news/source/2012/may/13/321.html

Emotions are understandably running high amongst Manchester City's supporters - and staff. The camera is picking out several fans in tears, while Roberto Mancini is in a state of disarray.

Get an ambulance to the Etihad. Severe choking occurring...

Ok. that is good for a start.

A man and a woman walked into a guesthouse n requested to spend d night. The owner of the guest house,Mr Collins, who is a member of Mountain of fire church, refused to allow men n women stay together in his hotel becos of fornication. d woman explained,He is my son. Not my spouse n so dey checked in. After 30mins,Mr collins sent his maid to go n check if those folks re truly mother n son.
The maid came back n said: Sir,she's truly d mother. The Boss Asked. How did u confirm. D maid. Smiled=D , Sir I am sure.
I saw her Breastfeeding the Man.....lwkmd=))

A Man missed his wife who travelled, so much that he felt the matrimonial bed was too big for just him alone. Then, he decided to sleep on the sofa, dinning chair and sometimes in the library, children's room and the Guest room.

When the wife came back, she asked the maid if her husband was sleeping fine while she was away.

But the maid answered: Madam, since u left, Oga no dey gree sleep for una Bedroom, He has been sleeping around ooooooo.The woman screamed & fainted!!! see wetin grammar go cause.

A Nigerian policeman arrested a
man urinating at a place clearly
marked "Do not urinate here, fine
N500, the offender gives the
policeman a N1000 note, the
policeman turns around and said urinate again, I don't have
change.............TGIF folks!

Can someone tell me why DAVID OTONGA has never won a WWE Match? Even though he looks very fit.

Nice one Loma, we are proud of you.

Keep the flag flying.

Loooooooool!!!!



Wait a minute....did you finally Swallow the Eba or you were left wondering what could have been if it wasn't a dream?

I just wasted 120seconds of my life reading this Balderdash.
***Spits on thread and walks out***

I watched the fight, Mayweather was on top in almost all the rounds.

Some thought the impending jail sentence might be a distraction, but he was typically brilliant against Cotto.


Mayweather had a 179-105 edge in punches landed, according to CompuBox. More significantly, Mayweather landed the harder shots and seemed to have Cotto in trouble in several rounds.

No matter what people think about Mayweather outside the Ring, inside the Ring he is a Great Fighter.

NIGERIA....MY BELOVED COUNTRY!


(1) Where a man Happily meet a lady and when she goes back to her friends, their only question was "Is the guy loaded?

(2) Where leaders pretend to be patriotic when they are in office, out of office, they will turn to ethnic tigers.

(3) Where a blind beggar will reject a fake naira note.

(4) Where Groundnuts are sold in Bottles & Waters sold in Satchets.

(5) Where parents claim they always came first position in school.

(6) Where You Can Be A Driver For Years Without A 'DRIVER's LICENCE'

(7) Where Presidents and other government officials don't know the national anthem.

(8 ) Where the Police on a road block makes more money a day than motorist and their owners.

(9) Where Gala and Lacasera is the best option when stuck in traffic jams (hold up).

(10) Where you are jailed for stealing Maggi and yam and others given a chieftancy title for stealing billions and Front row seat in churches.

(11) Where we fight for everything. To gain admission to university, to get a job and to enter a bus!

(12) Where you are robbed of your phone and the robbers come back for your Pin code and the charger.

(13) Where politicians use big unnecessary grammar to scam people.

(14) Where your type of GENERATOR shows how RICH you are.

(15) Where you can easily blame your unsuccessfulnes on family members in the village.

(16) Where rich men must have a pot belly, and a healthy looking, slim Man is despised in the street as a pauper.

(17) Where if you where do anyhow you see anyhow.

(18 ) Where generator is a social amenity.

(19) Where people dey collect change for beggar hand.

(20) Where People produce Toyota Camry jeans and Dr. Dre slippers

(21) Where the man who had no shoes becomes the president.

(22) Where a 60-yr-old grandpa is a National youth leader of a party (PDP).

(23) Where citizens are more afraid of Police than Armed robbers.

(24) Where a civil servant saves $544,000 in her bank from Pure Water business in just 2 years.


We are always proud to be called Nigerians despite all these odds.
Naija For Life.

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If the trend continue this way, very soon Nigeria will be importing fuel from Somalia.

^^^ Callotti AKA Lasinoh, don't you think you need a Psychiatric Evaluation? No offence intended. #just asking.