Boxing champion Hector "Macho" Camacho is fighting for his life at a hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Wednesday after he was gravely injured in a shooting.

"Macho" Camacho was shot in the face and neck while he was in a car in Puerto Rico Tuesday night. At the beginning, doctors said his condition was critical bus table and was expected to survive. However on Wednesday morning he suffered a heart attack.

His family and doctors are considering the posibility to remove him from live support, reports ESPN.

"This is the toughest fight in the life of Macho Camacho," Ernesto Torres, director of the Rio Piedras Medical Center, said in a news conference this morning. "There has not been any improvement. His heart has stopped working. We can give him medicine and his heart will pump again. There is brain activity, but very low. The neurological equipment is not being used. Right now, we can't do anything," Torres said.

"We are keeping him alive with medicine. He is a strong guy. We can maintain him several days like this to see if there is an improvement. The situation with Macho is very delicate. The prognosis is very poor," Torres said.

The three-time boxing champion's friend and former manager Ismael Leandry spoke about his condition to the Associated Press.

"We just have to wait to see if Macho gets better. It's a hard battle," Leandy said.

According to media reports, Camacho was shot outside a liquor store while he was in a car with friend Adrian Mojica Moreno who was killed. Two assailants fled in an SUV, according to police in Puerto Rico.

One of the bullets passed through Camacho's jaw and lodged in his shoulder fracturing two vertebrae.

Police found Mojica Moreno had ten bags of cocaine with him. Police is investigating the attack and have yet to determine the motive. Also no arrests have been made.