It's Macho Time (Appreciation)

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  1. ETM

    ETM I thought I did enough to win. Full Member

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    Here we honor the legend. The one and only. Greatest Boxer ever to lace up a pair of gloves.
    OK maybe that is a bit of a stretch but I'm going with it cause it's MACHO TIME!!!
     
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  2. salsanchezfan

    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Carefully matched. With a different mindset he could have been great
     
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  3. ETM

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    Fastest Hands in the history of the sport.
     
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  4. Seamus

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    This is the fight of his I appreciate the most...

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  5. thanosone

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    He couldn't hurt Chavez. Fight would have been better three years prior.
     
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  6. Seamus

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    Absolutely. Julio would have been closer to prime and would have KMTFO.
     
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  7. Saad54

    Saad54 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Actually Camacho showed a lot of heart accepting that beating from JC Chavez

    They were both 30 and been pros since 1980, but Camacho had been in decline since at least 1988.

    I would have liked to have seen Camacho fight Chavez around 1987 at 135 lbs. I'd still favor Chavez then but it would have been more competitive.
     
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  8. ETM

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    After the fight Macho crashes Chavez's post fight party and grabs the microphone and says " I got my ass kicked but I'm a still here to party!!"
    The Mexicans respected it.
     
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  9. Saad54

    Saad54 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Camacho had slid much more by 1992 than Chavez
     
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  11. ETM

    ETM I thought I did enough to win. Full Member

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    I spent roughly all of the 1980s convinced Hector Camacho was Jesus Christ. I wasn't the only one. There was a lot going on back then. The Cocaine it was really good.
     
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  12. Saad54

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    The absolute prime 1985 Camacho that easily outboxed, dropped and outfought the iron chinned and powerful, albeit much slower Jose Luis Ramirez, was a great fighter.

    But, he became much more tentative and less aggressive after getting staggered by Rosario in 86.

    By 92 when he fought Chavez, his reflexes had clearly slowed from his prime.
     
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  13. Cobra33

    Cobra33 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Camacho at his best outboxes Chavez. Imagine Handspeed of a Meldrick but foot speed as well in a southpaw form.
     
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  14. Seamus

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    Chavez was 5 years from his best when he met Camacho. And he won damn near EVERY round. He broke Camacho and put him in his place. It was almost as tho he extended the beating rather than going for the stoppage that Steele would have given him with an extra flurry or two.

    Chavez wins any day, anywhere.
     
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  15. Cobra33

    Cobra33 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Camacho was done the moment Rosario hurt him.
    After that bout he would never be peak form.
    People gloss over the fact that Laporte gave JC a run for his money with some thinking he won(I thought JC won)
    Or Lockridge gave JCC a good fight. Point im making?
    JCC didnt have all this one punch power everyone brings up. If he could have stopped Camacho he would have.
     
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