Héctor Camacho Jr.
Héctor Machito Camacho Herrera Jr. (born September 20, 1978) is an American-born Puerto Rican professional boxer and published writer residing in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. He started boxing professionally at the age of 18 years old. He is the son of the late three-time world champion Héctor "Macho" Camacho and the nephew of Felix "Showtime" Camacho. In 2007, 2010, 2014, and 2016, he won the World Boxing Council (WBC) Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) Light Middleweight title. His mother was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. Early life and education Hector Camacho Jr. was born and raised in New York City. His parents were quite young and did not marry; his father was Hector Camacho, then 16 years old, who lived in Spanish Harlem. The senior Camacho, nicknamed "Macho", became an amateur boxer and, later a professional. The boy was nicknamed "Machito". He grew up admiring his father's fighting skills and imitating him, and was more interested in fighting than s ...
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Spanish Harlem, Manhattan, New York
East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem or and historically known as Italian Harlem, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City, roughly encompassing the area north of the Upper East Side and bounded by 96th Street (Manhattan), 96th Street to the south, Fifth Avenue to the west, and the East River, East and Harlem Rivers to the east and north. Despite its name, it is generally not considered to be a part of Harlem, Harlem proper, but it is one of the neighborhoods included in Greater Harlem. The neighborhood is one of the largest predominantly Hispanic and Latino Americans, Hispanic communities in New York City, mostly made up of Puerto Ricans, as well as sizeable numbers of Dominican Americans, Dominican, Cuban Americans, Cuban and Mexican immigrants. The community is notable for its contributions to Latin freestyle and salsa music. East Harlem also includes the area formerly known as Italian Harlem, in which the remnants of a once predominantly Italian Americans, It ...
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