SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP)
Police in Puerto Rico say former boxing champion Hector ''Macho'' Camacho has been shot and critically wounded.
Camacho was shot in the face while in a car outside a bar in Bayamon, one of the cities that make up the San Juan metropolitan area. A statement from police in Bayamon said he was shot Tuesday night.
A second man also was shot and killed but authorities say it is not clear what relationship, if any, Camacho had with the other victim. The motive was unknown.
The 50-year-old former boxer was unconscious as he was taken to the trauma center at Centro Medico in San Juan. Hospital officials told reporters he was in serious condition.
Camacho won super lightweight, lightweight and junior welterweight world titles in the 1980s.
The outlet Primera Hora quoted Ernesto Torres, medical director at Centro Medico, as saying that Camacho was in critical condition after the bullet fractured Camacho's fifth and sixth vertebrae and lodged in his right shoulder. Torres added, according to the report, that the bullet never entered Camacho's brain and that Camacho received a blood transfusion.
Primera Hora also reported that police have one suspect in custody.
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I thought it was gonna be about this guy:
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They took him off life support ... determined he was definitely brain dead. Sad.
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He was an entertaining character.
Hector Camacho vs. Jose Luis Ramirez
part 1
http://youtu.be/mDed-70Wsnw
part 2
http://youtu.be/_lnILK2BZTc
The fastest boxers of all time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 1fI#t=200s
Hector Camacho vs. Jose Luis Ramirez
part 1
http://youtu.be/mDed-70Wsnw
part 2
http://youtu.be/_lnILK2BZTc
The fastest boxers of all time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 1fI#t=200s
Re: Hector "Macho" Camacho shot
Landshark2000 wrote:They took him off life support ... determined he was definitely brain dead. Sad.
Sad indeed.
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Re: Hector "Macho" Camacho shot
RIP. No mas. Loved his style.
He's like the Liberace of bass & pot.
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Re: Hector "Macho" Camacho shot
Yeah sad, as a kid I loved watching his cocky, showboating ring entrances and costumes but he was an outstanding fighter as well. I saw him fight in Vegas in 1993 as he was beginning the downward slide from his prime, but he was still amazing to watch. So slick and fast.