Carlitos Machado was only a few years old when cancer took his right arm. Many would have seen that as the end of any sporting dream. He saw it as the beginning.
🥊 He is missing an arm and won with an incredible knockout
⚡️ Carlos Machado, an example of resilience, needed only a few seconds to knock down Emmanuel Vallejo and beat him in the first round pic.twitter.com/DAdaCjiFIg
— El Gráfico (@elgraficoweb) May 16, 2022
He left Argentina for Thailand, the birthplace of Muay Thai, and became a professional fighter. He now has 29 fights under his belt. In one of his most recent bouts, he knocked out his opponent with a spinning strike that left the entire crowd in shock: the other boxer could not get back up.
One arm less and no extra excuses.