Boxing: Mickey Rooney was 'surrogate father' for Tapia2014-04-09 · Albuquerque Journal
ALBUQUERQUE ? Mickey Rooney played a boxer in the 1947 film ?Killer McCoy? and a boxing trainer in the 1962 movie ?Requiem for a Heavyweight.? It's no great surprise, then, that the venerable actor, who died Sunday at age 93, was a boxing fan in real …