School me on Hecter Comacho

If he only had power he would have been a perfect. But his outside life ruined his career, drugs, trouble with the law and too much partying.

 

His power was fine. He lacked any real inside game or versatility and, most importantly, just wasn't mentally that strong. Still, he achieved quite a bit. Excellent fighter during his peak years, up until the Rosario fight basically. Went undefeated for quite some time and scored victories over several quality fighters like Rosario, Ramirez, Boza-Edwards, Mancini, Limon, etc.

Probably the fastest hands in boxing history.

 

Hector Macho Camacho came from the same place Miguel Cotto came from in PR. He was a flamboyant and kinda clowny character who used to say "What time is it? Macho Time!" all the time. He was durable and extremelly fast and accurate counter-punching and moving back and along the ropes, worthy to be mentioned was his UD win for the WBO LWW title against Vinnie Pazienza who had Lou Duva, Kevin Rooney and Ace Morotta in his corner. He lost one stupid fight when he came out jabbing when he was supposed to touch gloves in at the start of the twelveth with Greg Haugen and referee Padilla deducted a significant point away which made him lose by SD but it was strangely considered a no-contest when Haygen was caught on marijuana and in the rematch, Macho won. Basically it all comes up to him going against the WBC LWW Champ Julio Cesar Chavez Sr with 40-0-0-1NC but with a few fights in hois bag for the last three years and took a beating, one close eye, many gashes. Chavez was talkin with him afterwards, embraced, drinking from the same bottle and telling the interviewer he was not the "maricon" he thought he was... Macho basically became a trialhorse to these new stars in WW division like ODLH and Tito Trinidad. He definitely fought out of character and exposed the worse than average conditioning of SRL on his last comeback at SMW after having lost a LMW 12 rounder and knocked down twice by Terry Norris.

 

The fact that he won titles in 2 divisions and beat some respectable fighters and is considered a big underachiever shows you how talented he was.

Insane speed, decent power, nice fluidity.

Unfortunately, he partied too much. He also had a tendency to go into a defensive shell when he got tagged hard and looked more to survive rather than make the proper adjustments to win the fight.

But he'd be a handful for most 130-135 lb fighters in history.




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If he wasn't thought of as such a colossal douchebag he'd be far better regarded. Hell of a talent. Hell of a headcase.

 

I would have loved to have seen him stay at 130 and 135 much longer than he did. All that outside ring activities really hurt his career. Plus, he took way too much time off between fights back then. His hand speed was amazing. I heard he has one more son fighting in the amateurs so maybe we can get a son that fights and trains like him.

 

camacho had an enormous amount of talent.

 

I actually have that Loy fight somewhere in my house. I have to find it. I would like to put it up for all to see and a Pryor vs Dujuan Johnson is also in the dvd.

 

This :deal

 

Nuts!!!

He would drive the freeways at 35 mph while screwing!!!

Super fast, instinctive and bold!!!

 

You know your fast when you still look fast in slow mo. Camacho=Speed

 

One that trains on cocaine, vodka, and hookers?

 

:rofl Is that the recipe for speed???

 

Dam... I forgot how fast he was. Couldn't stand him.. very good fighter. By the way, I thought Maancini beat him. Good post.. tks