ya, i also like to think i gave him the idea to sell t-shirts, i mentioned it and he said "coming soon" and i got an autograph too. He really was a nice guy inspite of the rap he got. He only went ot puerto rico because of legal trouble here in America with his own stupid family. One of his sons stole some money from him and he attacked him over it and ended up back in trouble so I think he just said fuck it and went to Puerto Rico.
Murder...drugs....b/s. Camacho had so much skill & potential. I'm glad he was champ in his early years.
Nice,
who's your uncle? Macho started training with, I think some Irish guy and then turned Pro under billy giles until they had money issues, then a string of guys. At any rate, Macho was well taught, very well taught, that's easy to forget with all the glitz and noise, he was fundamentally a fine fighter in an era when Ali had most fighters thinking they could throw away the rules.
wasn't even the target in a drug deal gone bad, from the sounds of it, he accidentally got shot, had he lived he would have been a paraplegic, it was looking like he would pull through until he had a couple heart attacks, that pretty much left him brain dead. there was a guy who was close to macho, gave very moving stories about the final days (and also the rest of his life with Macho) I commented on how much I appreciated the video, unfortunately, he took the videos down after I did because I think he was ashamed of how emotionally messed up he was, this was right after Macho's death. No one has ever been charged with the death of Camacho and it looks like no one ever will be. I don't know if it would have been that hard to track down the killer or not but I do know that ex-boxers generally don't get a lot of priority in this world, even famous ones.
Jimmy Montoya as in, trained Sal Sanchez and Alexis arguello, jimmy Montoya?
Hagler was a absolute BEAST , them fists of fury were unreal. Nice to hear you liked watching Camacho fight!I was a big fan of the macho man as a kid. He was probably my 2nd favorite fighter of the 80's, behind only the man in my AV. But i have to admit, my favorite fight of his was when he was past his prime and retired the even more past his prime Sugar Ray for good...
It feels like he's been gone for much longer somehow to me. :-(
No shitt. That's awesome
ya, that was a great one, one boxing guy said after he died that he didn't feel sad that Macho enjoyed his time on this earth. He had a lot of fun times. What bothered me the most, by far was that he had a divine talent, like Sugar Ray Robinson, or Beethoven or Picasso and it was wasted and is now largely forgotten about. No one really remembers what was predicted for him, which was that he would be someone to watch for all time greatness. No one mentions that. Steve Farhood, a writer who was around at the time and should know better remembered him as just "a screwup".
