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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - A famous person unexpectedly dies.
And the immediate inclination for the geniuses in my line of work is to assemble something that’s both worthy of the undisputed championship of profundity, and gets posted 30 seconds before the guy’s at the wannabe website down the street.
Sometimes they make for entertaining reading… but in just as many cases, they don’t.
Regardless, I can’t bring myself to do it for Hector Camacho.
The main reason is that, while he’s only officially been gone since Saturday, his life actually ended several days earlier – at precisely the moment an ill-intentioned bullet violated his skull. Whether his body or the machinery it was subsequently attached to knew it or not, his story was complete.
And with it, the shelf life for any truly legitimate tributes had already begun to expire.
By now, all the worthwhile words to be written about him already have been. So whether I praised him for a distinguished and decorated ring career or chastised him for what seems a dubious end amid questionable company and circumstances, I’d be piling on for piling on’s sake. [Click Here To Read More]
And the immediate inclination for the geniuses in my line of work is to assemble something that’s both worthy of the undisputed championship of profundity, and gets posted 30 seconds before the guy’s at the wannabe website down the street.
Sometimes they make for entertaining reading… but in just as many cases, they don’t.
Regardless, I can’t bring myself to do it for Hector Camacho.
The main reason is that, while he’s only officially been gone since Saturday, his life actually ended several days earlier – at precisely the moment an ill-intentioned bullet violated his skull. Whether his body or the machinery it was subsequently attached to knew it or not, his story was complete.
And with it, the shelf life for any truly legitimate tributes had already begun to expire.
By now, all the worthwhile words to be written about him already have been. So whether I praised him for a distinguished and decorated ring career or chastised him for what seems a dubious end amid questionable company and circumstances, I’d be piling on for piling on’s sake. [Click Here To Read More]
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