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==Professional career== After a stellar amateur career, Camacho began a quick rise through the professional rankings, first in the featherweight and then in the junior-lightweight division. He was so confident that he claimed he could beat world featherweight champions [[Salvador Sánchez]] and [[Eusebio Pedroza]]. However, Sánchez died while Camacho was still coming up in the ranks. In the junior-lightweight division, he defeated the top contenders Irleis ''Cubanito'' Perez, Melvin Paul, John Montes, and Refugio Rojas.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} ===Super featherweight=== {{ external media | float = center | audio1 = You may watch '''Hector "Macho" Camacho''' fight '''Rafael "Bazooka Limón"''', {{YouTube|NRs50e7xjwo|'''here'''}} | audio2 = }} When the World Junior Lightweight champion, [[Bobby Chacón]], refused to go to Puerto Rico to defend his title against Camacho, the [[World Boxing Council]] (WBC) declared the world championship vacant. [[Rafael Limón]], who had been defeated and lost the championship to Chacon, fought Camacho for the vacant title. It was the first time Camacho was in a ring with a former world champion; he scored a knockdown on Limón late in the third round and twice more in the fifth round before the referee stopped it. Camacho also fought his first defense in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan]], where he met [[Rafael Solis (boxer)|Rafael Solis]], a fellow [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]]. He knocked out Solis with a right to the chin in round five, and retained the title. ===Lightweight=== Moving up to lightweight, Camacho won the [[United States Boxing Association]] title against Roque Montoya with a twelve-round decision. His victory in the next fight, broadcast on [[Home Box Office]] (HBO), made him a two-time world champion. Camacho beat the [[Mexican people|Mexican]] defending world champion, [[José Luis Ramírez]] in [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]] to win the [[World Boxing Council|WBC]] world Lightweight championship. Camacho dropped Ramirez in round three and won the fight by a unanimous twelve-round decision. The two other reigning world champions in his division at that time, [[Livingstone Bramble]] and [[Jimmy Paul]], were reluctant to unify the crown with Camacho. Instead, he beat [[Freddie Roach (boxing)|Freddie Roach]] before his next fight of importance came along, ten months after beating Ramírez. [[Héctor Camacho vs. Edwin Rosario|He met]] former WBC lightweight champion [[Edwin Rosario]] on June 13, 1986, at [[Madison Square Garden]] in [[New York City]], a bout also broadcast on HBO. The fight was notable for the shifts of dominance between the men. Camacho dominated rounds one to four, but had to hang on in rounds five, six and seven, when he felt Rosario's power. He came back to take rounds eight and nine, but Rosario came back to take the last three rounds. It was a close fight, but Camacho retained the title by a split decision of the judges. Camacho retained his title against [[Cornelius Boza-Edwards]], a former world junior lightweight champion, in [[Miami]] in a unanimous decision, after dropping Edwards in the first round. ===Light welterweight=== {{main|Julio César Chávez vs. Héctor Camacho}} He went up in weight and competed at the next level. After a few fights there, he met [[Ray Mancini|Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini]], the former world lightweight champion who had a record of 29–3 with 23 knockouts, for the vacant [[WBO]] Light Welterweight title. Camacho was the fresher of the two and won a split twelve-round decision. He joined that exclusive group of world champion boxers who have become world champions in three weight divisions. Camacho's next rival of note was [[Vinny Pazienza]], whom he defeated on points. His next challenger was [[Tony Baltazar]], from [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]]. He defeated Baltazar by points in a fight televised by HBO. His undefeated streak came to an end, and he lost his world championship to [[Greg Haugen]], the former world Lightweight champion. The referee had deducted one point from Camacho for refusing to touch gloves with Haugen at the start of the 12th round. After the fight, an unidentified substance was found in Haugen's urine, and a rematch was ordered. Camacho regained the title, beating Haugen in a close split decision. In 1992 in Las Vegas, Camacho met [[Julio César Chávez]], a formidable Mexican champion who was undefeated 81–0. Camacho entered the ring in an outfit based on the Puerto Rican flag; the fight was televised by [[Showtime (TV channel)|Showtime]]'s [[Pay Per View]]. Camacho was later criticized by some in the boxing press{{By whom|date=March 2013}} for his retreating tactics during the fight; Chávez kept pushing the fight and harassed him with hard punches to the body. The bout ended with a victory for Chávez by unanimous decision. Since 1992 Camacho's notable fights included two victories (by points) over [[Roberto Durán]], (one in [[Atlantic City]], the other in [[Denver, Colorado|Denver]]). In 1997, he knocked out [[Sugar Ray Leonard]] in five rounds. This loss sent the forty-one-year-old Leonard into permanent retirement, putting an end to his third comeback attempt six years after a loss to [[Terry Norris (boxer)|Terry Norris]] in 1991. ===Welterweight and later career=== {{main|Héctor Camacho vs. Roberto Durán|Roberto Durán vs. Héctor Camacho II}} Camacho fought for the [[NWA World Welterweight Championship|World Welterweight Championship]] against [[Félix Trinidad]] (1994) and [[Oscar De La Hoya]] (1997), but he lost both matches by unanimous decisions. On December 5, 2003, Camacho faced Craig Houk. It was an odd fight, as Houk continuously turned his back on Camacho throughout the fight. Camacho had Houk in trouble in the first round before Houk caught an overzealous Camacho with a left hook and floored him, the third knockdown against him in his career. Camacho bounced back up and battered Houk for the remainder of the round. He knocked Houk near the end of the first and eventually won by knockout in round three. He won consecutive unanimous ten-round decisions over Clinton McNeil and Raúl Jorge Muñoz. After that, his boxing career went on hiatus, as he faced criminal charges. He pled guilty to burglary and acknowledged drug abuse, but was given probation. Camacho returned to boxing on July 18, 2008, competing against Perry Ballard for the World Boxing Empire's Middleweight Championship.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fightnews.com/fightnews_2/headlines/EkEyuVpVZlDmebmyyi.html|title=Camacho stops Ballard| publisher=Fightnews.com|date=July 19, 2008|access-date=August 2, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080730221324/http://www.fightnews.com/fightnews_2/headlines/EkEyuVpVZlDmebmyyi.html|archive-date=July 30, 2008}}</ref> The fight lasted seven rounds. Camacho won when Ballard's corner threw the towel. Before this fight, Camacho was trained by [[Angelo Dundee]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefightnetwork.com/print/767/camacho_stops_ballard_in_seven|title=Camacho Stops Ballard in Seven|publisher=[[The Fight Network]]|date=July 20, 2008|access-date=August 2, 2008}}</ref> His last two fights resulted in a draw and a loss, against [[Yori Boy Campas|Luis Ramón Campas]] and Saúl Duran, respectively. His last fight against Duran was on May 14, 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=607&cat=boxer|title=Hector Camacho Boxing Record|work=BoxRec|access-date=November 21, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150401034024/http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=607&cat=boxer|archive-date=April 1, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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