Shot boxer 'Macho' Camacho dies

Jimbuna · 11-24-12, 02:26 PM

Such a terrible waste

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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 · 11-24-12, 02:50 PM

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

Platapus · 11-24-12, 03:21 PM

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

Sailor Steve · 11-24-12, 03:27 PM

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 · 11-24-12, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

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 · 11-24-12, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Schroeder

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 · 11-24-12, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

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 · 11-25-12, 06:11 AM

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 · 11-25-12, 08:16 AM

Very sad a such a waste of a young life.

soopaman2 · 11-25-12, 06:32 PM

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?

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eddie Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,023 Downloads: 99 Uploads: 0	Its too bad, he was one heck of a fighter. __________________ Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I'm kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me. Al Capone

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,361 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Too bad his personal life did not work out as well as his professional life. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	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. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

11-25-12, 06:11 AM	#8
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,473 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	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. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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BossMark Fleet Admiral Join Date: May 2011 Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire Posts: 15,272 Downloads: 278 Uploads: 0	Very sad a such a waste of a young life. __________________ Never trust the Tories look what Thatcher and Major did in the 80s and 90s and look what the wicked witch May is doing now doing now

11-25-12, 06:32 PM	#10
soopaman2 Der Alte Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: New Jersey, USA Posts: 3,316 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 0	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? __________________ If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. -Winston Churchill- The most fascinating man in the world.