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I've just heard the sad news that Hector "Macho" Camacho has been shot in the neck & face & seriously wounded in a apparent drive-by in his home town, another man with him was killed instantly. The 50 yr old Puerto Rican sensation moved up through the ranks winning numerous world titles in 3 weight divisions. Standing at only 5ft 6" - 5ft 7" tall he fought from super-featherweight to super-middleweight, and had a amazing 30yr professional fight career making his debut in 1980 & amazingly having his last fight in 2010, having 88 fights & only losing 6, to the likes of greats such has, Felix Trinidad, Oscar De La Hoya, Julio Cesar Chavez, he was also never stopped in his career, some of his great wins include Roberto Duran Twice & sensationally a Knockout over Sugar Ray Leonard in a amazing and long career. Unfortunately he is now fighting the biggest fight of his life. My thoughts & Prayers are with him & his family.

Hope he pulls through - he was a very good, very fast champion in his prime and he had some pop in his punches too. He was a marmite fighter but could play the crowd really well. Hope he gets better and takes inspiration from ex foe Vinny Pazienza who is a medical marvel.

according to sky sports he could be left paralysed but doesn't sound life threatening.

The current scene thread is not reporting the same thing, sadly.

It looks like we have another Emmanuel Steward situation arising with the twitter posts - lets pray for not the same outcome.

The same source that confirmed Steward to me is saying the same here.

I'll see if I can double check.

Anyone speak Spanish as I only understand a bit from my Portigese. This is the DR interview.

http://bcove.me/ygjq8inr

Had a heart attack a few hours ago.

Life support may be removed in a few hours if no further sign of life.

Yes unfortunately that's what I've heard aswell that they may withdraw life support, not looking good. Very very sad situation.

Whats this world coming to? There must be a side story to this incident?

Camacho was always a loose cannon. He was a very talanted boxer, but his wild lifestyle got in the way.

Old bones Ian wrote:Camacho was always a loose cannon. He was a very talanted boxer, but his wild lifestyle got in the way.

I agree - the man had no brakes at all, he was brilliant in the mid to late 80's though; the trouble is there's a long time after a boxing career has finished and if you're not making tons of money (for other people) then your mistakes are not looked on kindly or covered up. If he's still in with a chance I hope he makes it

Yep, i hope so to, but not looking good at mo.

i saw that Ernest Mateen a former fringe contender was shot and killed a couple of weeks ago. He was shot by his girlfriend after he had badly beat her.

Oh, I remember him; M16 Mateen? He was a big hitter in the 90's. There's a lot die young and through violent means :(

Another sad endin to a great fighter god bless

According to the hospital he is clinically brain dead

mimmy123 wrote:According to the hospital he is clinically brain dead

According to wiki he has died. RIP

I once heard a story that his trainer was so frustrated about Hector's partying during training camp that he confiscated all his clothes so he couldn't go out.
Undetered he still went out partying....naked!

R.i.p camacho

R.I.P Macho Man

RIP macho man

I love his entrance for the chavez fight, and he took some hammer that night and finished stood up, r.I.p very good boxer

R.i.p another sad loss. So much drama & ill fated destiny face too many in our great sport for one reason or another.

Camacho fought Saul Duran in his last fight there is no relation to Roberto is there?

ender77 wrote:very sad indeed.

Watching Camacho on itv's world of sport as a kid was one of the main reasons i became a boxing fan.

Hector Camacho was an incredible talent in the early 1980's, and even though he was a multi-weight champion he never made the most of his career.

I always thought he had the beating of chavez had they boxed 5-6 years earlier.

I remember seeing him v Boza Edwards and was amazed that a man could be so fast; he hit hard then as well, Boza was tough but got dropped and hurt. RIP Macho Camacho.

Seems drugs were the reason here. The other guy with Camacho was also shot dead and had 9 bags of cocaine in his possession. Hectors life support machine was turned off Saturday