Hector Camacho died last week. Child abuse charges

Macho )

Return to welterweight and super welterweight

After defeating Leonard, Hector faced American star Oscar De La Hoya for the WBC welterweight title. De La Hoya dominated the entire fight and sent Hector to the canvas in the 9th round. The Puerto Rican still got up and was able to hold out until the final gong. Camacho lost devastatingly on points.

Problems with the law

Store robbery 2005

On January 6, 2005, Camacho was arrested by police in Gulfport, Mississippi, on charges of attempting to rob an electronics store while under the influence of ecstasy. In 2007, he pleaded guilty and admitted using narcotic substances during the crime. He was sentenced to 7 years in prison, but the sentence was commuted to one year of probation and 14 days in prison.

Attacks on Camacho 2011

In 2011, he became a victim of an attack by criminals. Camacho was shot three times with a gun, but he did not sue them.

Child abuse charge

In November 2011, the Florida State Attorney issued an arrest warrant for Camacho for child abuse. He was accused of assaulting and beating his teenage son in his home with ex-wife Camacho in March 2011. Camacho surrendered to Florida authorities in April 2012. He was released after posting $5,000 bail.

2012 shooting and death

On November 20, 2012, around 7 p.m., Camacho was shot in the jaw with a single shot in his hometown of Bayamón, Puerto Rico. A number of news agencies reported that 50-year-old Camacho was sitting in the passenger seat of a friend's car and was shot by unknown assailants from a passing SUV. The driver of the car, Adrian Mojica Moreno, a childhood friend of Camacho's, was killed during the attack. Camacho was taken to San Pablo Hospital in Bayamón, where he was reported to be in critical condition. Police said the van was found with nine bags of cocaine inside.

The bullet penetrated the left side of Camacho's jaw and fractured his fifth and sixth cervical vertebrae, causing damage to the carotid artery, which restricted blood flow to the brain. Doctors initially said Camacho had a good chance of surviving but might be paralyzed, but after he suffered cardiac arrest overnight they said his brain activity was very low. The next morning he was declared brain dead. Héctor Camacho was officially declared dead after suffering a heart attack the next day and was taken off life support.

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Return to welterweight and super welterweight

Having ultimately spent 88 fights in the professional ring, Hector Camacho never lost prematurely.

Problems with the law

Store robbery 2005

On January 6, 2005, Camacho was arrested by police in Gulfport, Mississippi, on charges of attempting to rob an electronics store while under the influence of ecstasy. He pleaded guilty in 2007 and admitted using drugs at the time of the crime. He was sentenced to 7 years in prison, but the sentence was commuted to one year of probation and 14 days in prison.

Attacks on Camacho 2011

In 2011, he became a victim of an attack by criminals. Camacho was shot three times with a gun, but he did not sue them.

Child abuse charge

In November 2011, the Florida State Attorney issued an arrest warrant for Camacho for child abuse. He was accused of assaulting and beating his teenage son at his home with Camacho's ex-wife in March 2011. Camacho surrendered to Florida authorities in April 2012. He was released after posting $5,000 bail.

2012 shooting and death

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Former world champion in three weight categories Hector Camacho died in Puerto Rico after a gunshot wound. Alexey Sukachev talks about the difficult journey of a boxer who never fully showed his genius to the world.

Is it possible to call a man who became world champion four times in three weight categories (not counting an unimaginable number of minor titles), defeated Roberto Duran (twice), and was the only one to knock out Sugar Ray Leonard, a loser who never fully realized his talent? Rhetorical question, you say? Not in the case of Puerto Rican Hector Camacho, nicknamed “Macho”...

Recalls popular HBO analyst Max Kellerman: “When people talk about the greatest disappointments - not in the history of boxing, but in the history of sports in general - the name Mike Tyson is always the first to come to mind and the first to be heard in any such conversation. But Hector Camacho is next to Mike. Not in terms of his character, but in terms of what he could have achieved, but never achieved.” Max continues: “He had outstanding talent, talent on par with the best boxers in the history of our sport. No, no, not in the history of any weight, but in the history of boxing in general. He was, of course, a troublesome fellow. In Spanish Harlem (a New York area where Camacho moved from Bayamón as a teenager), he “expanded”, stole cars - he generally had huge problems with the law. But he’s not a bad guy - he just found himself in this environment, and it gradually sucked him in. But it wasn’t her who ruined him, not her... But he could have become a symbol of the 80s, and the 90s too, to be in the place of Roy Jones and Oscar De La Hoya. He had a powerful talent, and physically he was simply monstrously gifted. He was a unique athlete. Michael Katz once said that Camacho was the greatest talent he had ever seen. And Michael knows what he’s talking about.”

“He had outstanding talent, talent on par with the best boxers in the history of our sport.”

Camacho began competing as a professional at the age of 18 after a long (and successful) career not only as an amateur and at the same time in other types of martial arts, but also in much tougher street fights. Hector grew by leaps and bounds, almost imperceptibly moving from fights with professional losers to fights with the same (but what kind of “same”?!) young talents as himself. In the 12th fight he became a champion North America(NABF) in the first lightweight division, and this was not an accident, but a pattern. Camacho of those times combined swipe with outstanding technique and superb reflexes. “Before Floyd (Mayweather) came along, I thought Camacho was the greatest fighter in the history of this weight. Many people include all the fast techies in one group, but this trick didn’t work with “Macho”: he was head and shoulders faster than all of them combined. At 59 kilograms (weight limit), it was simply impossible to touch him.”

Hector soon appeared on television, and his popularity went far beyond New York. This arrogant but skilled guy was a spectacle, a real curiosity, giving people everything that is important in boxing. One round was enough for him to deal with the dangerous Refugio Rojas. Even less was spent on John Montez: Camacho missed with a left jab, grabbed Montez’s head with his right for a second, bent it down and loaded it with a powerful left uppercut - only veterans had previously shown such a combination of dirt and skill.

From October 1982 to April 1983, Camacho defeated four opponents with a combined record of 95 victories and one defeat, and in August of the same year, having defeated former world champion Rafael Limon, the Puerto Rican became the WBC world champion. One defense and a jump in new weight, where Camacho Sr. showed himself in full color , defeating the most experienced and very strong Mexican Jose Luis Ramirez (90-5 at the time of the fight) on points in August 1985 - after this fight he entered the top five P4P according to a number of prestigious publications. There was less than a year left before the crash of the champion, although he did not know about it, preferring to let go barbs to other champions and contenders.

On June 13, 1986, Camacho faced another outstanding and hard-hitting Puerto Rican, Edwin Rosario, in the first defense of the WBC lightweight belt he won against Ramirez. The fight was even, but at the 45th second of the 5th round, Rosario landed a powerful left hook, from which Hector was led, and he floated until the end of the round. In the 11th, Rosario repeated this trick (this time with a double hook and cross), but Camacho again survived and survived until the final bell. He won that fight by split decision, but no one ever saw the old “Macho” in the ring again.

From October 1982 to April 1983, Camacho defeated four opponents for a combined record of 95 wins and one loss.

“It was a real drama,” says Max Kellerman again. “If you think about it, it was best win in Camacho's career. He fought an outstanding knockout artist, a future 4-time world champion, who was at the peak of his form. He survived in a situation that no one else would have survived. But she broke it. That signature aggressiveness, that courage and rage with which he fought disappeared completely and irrevocably. He became a coward in the ring, became a spoiler, a boxer for whom safety comes first (safety-first fighter). Macho Time came to an end, and his spirit simply evaporated”...

If anyone doesn’t know, 50-year-old Hector, who boxed for 30 years in a row with almost no truly long downtime, last entered the ring just two years ago. On May 14, 2010, he lost on points to the “young” (37 years old!) Mexican Saul Duran. This defeat was his sixth, but “Macho” was never knocked out in the ring by anyone. Break Someone managed to hit this warrior only with lead, but Camacho held this blow too until the last.

Hector Camacho (Puerto Rico)

Years of life: 1962 – 2012

Macho)

Return to welterweight and super welterweight

After defeating Leonard, Hector faced American star Oscar De La Hoya in a fight for the WBC welterweight title. De La Hoya dominated the entire fight and knocked Hector out in the 9th round. The Puerto Rican still got up and was able to hold out until the final gong. Camacho lost devastatingly on points.

Having ultimately spent 88 fights in the professional ring, Hector Camacho never lost prematurely.

Problems with the law

Store robbery 2005

Attacks on Camacho 2011

In 2011, he became a victim of an attack by criminals. Camacho was shot three times with a gun, but he did not sue them.

Child abuse charges

In November 2011, at a Florida state office, a lawyer signed a warrant for Camacho's arrest for child abuse. He was accused of attacking and injuring his own teenage son at his home with ex-wife Camacho in March 2011. Camacho surrendered to Florida authorities in April 2012. After posting a $5,000 fine, he was released.

2012 shooting and death

On November 20, 2012, around 7 p.m., Camacho was shot in the jaw with a single shot in his hometown of Bayamón, Puerto Rico. A number of news agencies reported that 50-year-old Camacho was sitting in the passenger seat of a friend's car and was shot by unknown assailants from a passing SUV. The driver of the car, Adrian Mojica Moreno, a childhood friend of Camacho's, was killed during the attack. Camacho was taken to the San Pablo Hospital in Bayamón, where he was reported to be in critical condition. Police said the van was found with nine bags of cocaine inside.

The bullet penetrated the left side of Camacho's jaw, breaking the fifth and sixth cervical vertebrae, causing damage to the carotid artery that limited blood flow to the brain. Doctors initially said Camacho had a good chance of surviving but might be paralyzed, but after he suffered a cardiac arrest overnight, they said his brain activity was very low. The next morning they announced that he was brain dead. Hector Camacho was officially declared dead after suffering a heart attack the next day, and was taken off life support.

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Father Hector Luis Camacho Sr., and mother Maria Matias. Héctor was the youngest of five children, brother Felix and sisters Raquel, Estrella, and Esperanza. When he was three years old, his parents divorced and his mother took the children with her to New York. They lived in a housing commune in Spanish Harlem. Camacho often got into trouble, fought, and was sent to prison at the age of 15. Soon Hector discovered sports and chose boxing.

As an amateur, Camacho won the New York Golden Gloves Championship three times. Camacho won the 1978 (112 lb) Junior Championship, the 1979 (118 lb) Open Championship and the 1980 (119 lb) Open Championship.

Nick Camacho "macho" has been interpreted in different ways. According to his father, he gave him the nickname because he was youngest son. According to the New York Times, his mentor Pat Flannery gave him the nickname during his adolescence. Camacho himself claimed that he was given the nickname by a colleague at work who could not pronounce his last name.

Marriage and family

Camacho had a total of four sons, the eldest from an early relationship, and three during his marriage. His eldest son, Hector "Machito" Camacho Jr. (born in 1978 in New York City when Camacho was 16) also became a professional boxer and won a championship. Camacho's wife, Amy Torres. They had three sons: Christian (born December 1, 1989), Justin (b. 1992), and Tyler Camacho (b. 1998). In 1998, Amy obtained a restraining order against Camacho, alleging that he had threatened her and one of his sons. They divorced in 2007.