Remembering 'Macho Time'

Published November 25, 2012

Remembering 'Macho Time'

Filed under: Fighting Cocaine Addiction

Three more wins – including a first-round TKO over the usually rugged Refugio Rojas – vaulted Camacho to his first nationally televised fight against the 15-0-1 Louis Loy in a non-title lightweight encounter. Camacho impressed the CBS …. Camacho's …
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Beloved Boxer Hector Macho Camacho Gone At 50

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Hector “Macho” Camacho's final fight is officially over. Brain dead and being kept alive by machines, the … The rough neighborhood introduced him to many of the addiction and violence problems that followed him throughout the rest of his life, but …
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Mom, girls back to sharing Christmas joys

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As Paltiel looks forward to Christmas morning, she remembers a colder, rougher morning when she decided to get her life back on track and fight for the right to care for her kids again. In 2006, Paltiel was a cocaine addict sleeping in Beacon Hill Park …
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