El Torito: The True Story of Tony Ayala Jr - Paperback

by With Mike Ayala (Author), Natalie M. Bleau (Editor), Ben Doughty (Author)

Boxing prodigy Tony Ayala Jr had the world at his feet at the tender age of 19 when he committed a brutal sexual assault that swiftly curtailed his predicted path to greatness. After serving 16 years of a 35-year sentence, he returned to a hero's welcome in his native San Antonio, only to stumble once more into the familiar pattern of chaos and dysfunction that blighted his relatively short life.

An unblinking account of the trials and tribulations of a Mexican American family driven by a patriarchal obsession with glory in boxing's golden era. An extraordinary human interest story that charts the meteoric rise and abject fall of a tortured soul.