Shot boxer 'Macho' Camacho dies

[Jimbuna]

Such a terrible waste :nope:


Puerto Rican boxing great Hector "Macho" Camacho has died in hospital after being taken off his life support machines, doctors have said.
The former world champion was clinically brain dead after being shot in the head in a drive-by shooting near the capital, San Juan, on Tuesday.
The boxer, who was 50, fought some of the great names of boxing during a three-decade career.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20477872

[eddie]

Its too bad, he was one heck of a fighter.

[Platapus]

Too bad his personal life did not work out as well as his professional life.

[Sailor Steve]

On the one hand I agree this is a terrible tragedy. On the other it bothers me that there are many such tragedies, but we only notice when the name of the victim is familiar. I've never heard of Adrian Mojica Moreno, and never would have had he not been Camacho's friend and also killed in the shooting, yet his was just as great a loss to those who knew him.

[Schroeder]

On the one hand I agree this is a terrible tragedy. On the other it bothers me that there are many such tragedies, but we only notice when the name of the victim is familiar. I've never heard of Adrian Mojica Moreno, and never would have had he not been Camacho's friend and also killed in the shooting, yet his was just as great a loss to those who knew him.
Steve, that is self preservation. If you tried to mourn everyone who dies and feel with everyone who lost someone you would never ever have a happy moment again in your life. Yes, those losses are just as tragic but we simply can't feel with everyone. You would just destroy yourself.

[Sailor Steve]

Steve, that is self preservation. If you tried to mourn everyone who dies and feel with everyone who lost someone you would never ever have a happy moment again in your life. Yes, those losses are just as tragic but we simply can't feel with everyone. You would just destroy yourself.
For me it's just the opposite. I have a hard time mourning anyone, especially someone I only know through things I've read.

[Platapus]

For me it's just the opposite. I have a hard time mourning anyone, especially someone I only know through things I've read.

And no one is asking you to. Because you are right, how can you morn someone you never really knew?

It is a bit weird when some celebrity dies and you read the blogs about how people's lives have been changed and stuff. Very weird coming from people who most likely never knew this celebrity in real life and only "knew" their professional life.

[Jimbuna]

We all mourn in different ways and in different levels of detail depending on said individual and subject matter.

Whilst agreeing with points above I like all of us I suspect, reserve the right to act and feel as we feel necessary or appropriate.

[BossMark]

Very sad a such a waste of a young life. :nope:

[soopaman2]

As a boxing fan, a huge loss.

I watched him as a young man. He was fast, he hit hard, he brutalized his opponents.

No boxers like him today. He had an almost Muhammed Ali grace about him in his style, and had the "striker" instinct. He knew how to put a fight away, he was tight with in ring strategy.

Figures, it happened in Mexico, and drugs were closeby...

Does anything good happen there?

Can't they become famous for something other than cartels, and unsolved murders? Cure a disease or something?