"Hector 'Macho' Camacho...survived a difficult childhood to become a world champion before his lifelong struggle with addiction led to his murder at the age of 50. Giudice's take on the complicated fighter will move even those who've never tuned into a boxing match."--Publishers Weekly
"The first full-length biography of the legendary boxer...with a penchant for flamboyant outfits and behavior that won him both fans and foes. Giudice writes with sensitivity about Camacho's lifelong struggle with drugs and excessive partying that robbed him of a chance at true greatness...Boxing fans who remember the ascendant days of lighter-weight fighters such as Roberto Dur?n, Sugar Ray Leonard, Julio C?sar Ch?vez, and Oscar De La Hoya will want to read."--Library Journal
"Camacho's ring exploits are only part of his story...Giudice does a solid job of reporting...Entertaining and as thorough a biography as we're likely to see of this manchild who could have been a great fighter but became a cautionary tale instead."--Thomas Hauser, Boxing News
"In his new book from Hamilar Publications, experienced boxing writer Christian Giudice takes the reader along Camacho's bumpy, exhilarating, but ultimately tragic ride from a shack in Bayamon, Puerto Rico to Spanish Harlem, to global stardom, to that Mustang passenger seat in San Juan, where shots pierced through the night of late November, 2012. Throughout this, the first comprehensive biography of Camacho's life, Giudice speaks candidly about the boxer and the man in and out of the ring, via exclusive interviews with Sugar Ray Leonard, Freddie Roach, and H?ctor Camacho Jr. H?ctor Camacho's story and persona is as magnetic in death as it was in life...Make time for Macho Time"--Jack Porter, The Sportsman
"In yet another skillful excavation of a dazzling Latino champion, Christian Giudice--the author of acclaimed biographies of Roberto Duran, Alexis Arguello and Wilfredo Gomez--follows Hector 'Macho' Camacho from his embattled childhood in Spanish Harlem, to the heights of his electrifying yet too-brief stardom and onto his abject end by hail of gunfire in a carful of cocaine. It is a compelling journey."--Mark Kram Jr., author of Smokin' Joe: The Life of Joe Frazier
"The bullets that eventually found Hector Camacho had shadowed him throughout his tempestuous life. In this penetrating biography, Christian Giudice reveals the showman, the artist, the clown and the assassin--the erratic family man and the pride of Spanish Harlem. The Macho Man was a blazing comet streaking across the sky, bringing brilliance and destruction, then disappearing all too soon."--Mike Stanton, author of Unbeaten: Rocky Marciano's Fight for Perfection in a Crooked World
"All of boxing's dark romance is here. The raw material of Hector Camacho's wild, sad yet sometimes stellar life expertly distilled and movingly told."--Jon Hotten, author of The Years of the Locust: A True Story of Murder, Money and Mayhem in the Last Age of Boxing
"A tale of a fighter who, regardless of his talents and his achievements, struggled with his past...Giudice does a very good job of describing not only what Macho achieved in the ring, but also the wasted potential of his career...A fascinating story."--FightPost
"Giudice doesn't pull any punches with his latest book... The 320-page read is as hard hitting as one of the southpaw's punches and as colorful as the leopard print boxing trunks he famously wore."--Cherry Hill Courier-Post
