The mother of Hector “Macho” Camacho, the Puerto Rican ring great declared brain dead after being shot, said on Friday he will be taken off life support, a move the ex-champion’s eldest son opposes.
Camacho’s mother, Maria Matias, said in a press conference that she has accepted the doctors’ verdict rendered on Thursday that the three-time world champion was clinically brain-dead and could not recover.
She said the family would wait until Saturday, so that all of Camacho’s children will have a chance to say goodbye.
But Camacho’s eldest son, Hector Camacho jnr, insisted on Friday night that “the fight is not over until the final round,” and that he believed Camacho should stay connected to the respirator keeping him alive.
“Doctors make mistakes. Men make mistakes. God does not make mistakes,” Camacho jnr said after visiting his father again at Centro Medico hospital in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. “He is a fighter and the fight will continue until the end.”
However, Camacho jnr acknowledged that the final decision would belong to Matias - “my grandmother, the woman who gave birth to my papa.”
