The former super lightweight, lightweight and junior welterweight world champion and boxing legend Hector “Macho” Camacho is clinically brain dead, doctors said Thursday. However, his family are in dispute over the decision to turn off his life support.
Former world champion Camacho was left fighting for his life after being shot in the face in a drive-by shooting in his native Puerto Rico on Tuesday night.
But after a series of tests, medics say there is no hope for the 50-year-old. Dr Ernesto Torres – director of the hospital in the capital San Juan where the star is being kept alive – said: “We have done everything we could.
“We have to tell the people of Puerto Rico and the entire world that Macho Camacho has died, he is brain dead.”
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Camacho’s father has already indicated that he wants the former boxer taken off life support and his organs donated, but one of his sisters is against the idea. Friend Ismael Leandry said Camacho’s mother is also wavering on taking her son off life support and would like more time with him.
