Honesty. Vulnerability. Truth. That’s what you can expect when you watch the Showtime Sports documentary Macho: The Hector Camacho Story that premieres this evening at 9 p.m. ET on Showtime. The ...
When asked to recall Hector Camacho, the subject of an engrossing documentary airing on Showtime, Marc Ratner invoked the adjectives and traits one normally associates with the former star-crossed ...
If you are old enough to remember a group of grown men yelling out, “What Time Is It?” with the refrain, “It’s Macho Time!” you knew that young boxing champ Hector “Macho” Camacho from Spanish Harlem ...
Hector “Macho” Camacho was unforgettable. “There’s very few fighters who actually transcend the sport, and there was a moment in time where he actually owned the boxing business,” documentarian Eric ...
“I liked Batman, I loved Superman, the Lone Ranger, Zorro… you put all those superheroes together, there’s nobody like the Macho Man.” Boxing fans who grew up watching the sport during the 1980s ...
The 1980s were one of the greatest decades for boxing. The 1984 U.S. Olympic boxing team won nine gold medals and 11 medals overall. Pernell Whitaker, Evander Holyfield and Virgil Hill went on to the ...
Rarely can a boxing career come down to a single fight, much less a single punch. But that’s what happened to Hector “Macho” Camacho, who, despite being a three-division world champion and a member of ...
Showtime Sports Documentary Films has released a clip from the upcoming documentary film, MACHO: THE HECTOR CAMACHO STORY, an unflinching look at the remarkable life, storied career and unsolved ...
A documentary, by definition, is a program providing “a factual record or report.” Which means stringing together grainy footage with narration gleaned from Boxrec.com would be sufficient to cross the ...
Boxer rises from the street, boxer wins belts and makes millions, boxer falls to the street. Flight is slow. Gravity is fast. You always fall harder than you rise. Do we need to hear this story again?
The first place Eric Drath went was the scene of the crime, a parking spot outside a strip mall in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, where boxing legend Hector "Macho" Camacho was fatally shot in 2012. Drath, a ...