El Nuevo Dia online website has a live feed video of the Camacho funeral viewing here: http://www.elnuevodia.com/envivosegundodiadeactosfunebresdemachocamacho-1395993.html The viewing is held at the Nilmarie Santini coliseum in Santurce, P.R. for all fans to pay their respects and last glance at the fallen boxing legend. The event started yesterday and will continue today. Camacho's mom stood by her son's casket greeting everyone for most of the day yesterday. His body will be flown to New York tomorrow and will be buried in a cemetery in the Bronx on Saturday. There was a catfight between the former & current girlfriends of Camacho which coincided at the viewing. Police had to intervene.
Amazing to me that his funeral would be this important to people The guy was a negative front-runner in the ring from the moment he first got hit by someone... He was also a trashy individual I could see if someone great like Gomez or Benitez died, but Camacho? John-John Molina going to get a televised funeral when he kicks the bucket?
Camacho was a MEMORABLE Personality in Boxing History...Undoubtedly... Arturo Gatti's Death Got MAJOR Publicity & Mickey Ward has a Fucking MOVIE Made After his Life Story, yet People are Acting as if "Macho" Camacho is UNWORTHY, in Death???... Prime for Prime, Camacho Wipes his Ass w/Gatti & Ward... REED:hammert:
I remember Michael Jacksons funeral, for a second I thought Stevie Wonder was going to start playing the coffin by mistake. Live TV eh
If Macho had been an active bum and in his "prime" in the last few years, and if Ward and Gatti had been ATG from 20 years ago, and if Ward and Gatti died in a strange, cut-prone, gay asphyxiation accident, then people would want to know where the Gatti/Ward headlines were and why was everyone so interested in this Macho dude. The public has, it seems, in the immortal words of Dave Moss in Glengarry Glen Ross....."the memory of a fucking fly"
How the fuck would they fit MJ inside Stevie? I know Jacko didn't weigh but around 105, but Wonder playing the Coffin would have been nigh on impossible.
That funeral was an embarrassment. Camacho's last booty call bitch fought an old girlfriend of his over I don't know what the fuck. Now Wilfredo Vazquez Sr. had a scuffle with some unknown uneducated newyorican who claimed he was Camacho's "half brother". Crazy. , because allegedly the man pushed Wilfredo's wife.
The thing with Camacho was that though he wasn't a great fighter, he was definitely a memorable character. He was often the laughing stock of Puerto Rico even, but I guess its just one of those things where you just appreciate something before its gone. I'm honestly more sad for his family than for him, because his reckless lifestyle was bound to catch up to him sometime. Whats really sad is the situation in PR that keeps deteriorating. Its getting to be like Mexico now.
Yup. It sucks. Drug money... It's like Colombia now... the problem has moved northward to Mexico and Puerto Rican
Is all over the net. This is my favorite report so far: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CqY30d2RtS4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Hundreds of fans didn't mind the cold weather and flocked the streets to say goodbye to their fallen champion.
"Good night, sweet prince. Your career was a blueprint on how to be vehemently disliked by every real fight fan ever."
