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(FILES)Undefeated super lightweight champion Hector «Macho» Camacho Jr. (R) and his father Hector «Macho» Camacho Sr. from Puerto Rico celebrate their wins over Rocky Martinez, and Troy Lowry of the US, respectively, late in this February 3, 2001 photo on Miami’s South Beach, Florida. Former three time world boxing champion Hector «Macho» Camacho was seriously injured the night of November 20, 2012 after being shot in the neck in Puerto Rico, local media reported. Camacho, 50, was being driven in a car when he was hit in the head by gunshot from another vehicle around 7:00 pm local time, the Primera Hora de Puerto Rico newspaper reported on its website. Ernesto Torres, director of the Centro Medico de Rio Piedras, was cautious about Camacho’s chances of survival, saying that a bullet had fractured two bones in his neck. «It appears the bullet struck a bone and was deflected without going into the brain,» Torres told the newspaper. An earlier report said a single bullet struck the left side of Camacho’s jaw. AFP PHOTO/RHONA WISE