Camacho

Ultimate Macho Camacho, Glitz and Glitter

By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent

“What time is it? It’s Macho Time!” Ring announcer introduction of Macho Camacho.

Ultimate Macho Camacho Tribute Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW-ysu-OdSc p

Two boxers in the modern era have come to symbolize the concept of sell the show by publicizing with concepts of personality, flash and great entertainment. Cassius Clay, later Muhammad Ali AKA The Greatest, sold his fights with his uncontrollable mouth. Hailing from Bayamon, Puerto Rico, and New York City’s Spanish Harlem in Manhattan, Hector ‘Macho’ Camacho Sr. (1962-2012) was a flashy southpaw, whose colorful and flashy costumes, huge neck ‘Macho’ gold chain, and wild lifestyle inside and outside the ring gave professional boxing mega publicity.In modern terms, Macho Camacho was a one man publicity machine. In professional sports, it is all about sponsors, viewers and selling tickets. Macho excelled at the big three, attracting both attention and curiosity.

This reporter, who has been covering boxing for over 40 years, first covered Hector ‘Macho’ Camacho in his seventh pro bout, a seventh round stoppage of winless journeyman Kato Ali at the Concord Resort Hotel in Kiamesha Lake, New York.

Macho Camacho, who was murdered in Puerto Rico, left the world in the same insane crazy way he lived, down to the two funerals on different continents, a horse drawn carriage carrying the coffin, and his girlfriends engaged in nasty cat fighting at the funeral.

Iron Mike Tyson was just a big name. Macho Camacho was much more. He knew how to enter the ring with flash, fight with flash, and turn his ways of flash into big promotions worth big cash. Sell yourself, Macho Camacho seemed to say, hairdo, gold jewelry and all.

Camacho was a quick, swift and clever fighter with a most confusing style opponents hated. His entrances of costumed grandeur were timeless elements of psychological warfare which accomplished their purpose, to give Camacho subconscious advantage over his opponents.

In today’s boxing circles, Floyd Mayweather Jr. is the big promotion of the moment, and his time will soon be past. Macho Camacho just had a certain something which captivated the attention of the general public. Camacho also had a granite chin to go with his offensive and defensive skills. Camacho remained on his feet through all 88 of his professional bouts.

Hector ‘Macho’ Camacho made the boxing show colorful and interesting, and that is the way it should be. Sensational in sequin, prominent in personality, Hector Camacho Jr. was ‘The Macho Man’. Macho was planning to return to the ring at the time of his untimely passing. Saint Raymond’s Cemetery in Queens, New York, holds the remains of boxers Macho Camacho and Benny ‘Kid’Paret, hit singer Frankie Lymon (‘Why Do Fools Fall in Love?’). Only time can quiet the historical significance of Macho’s tombstone, his electric personality never to be forgotten in the sands of sports time, where it’s still ‘Macho Time’.

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