Santo Domingo, RD.
Until noon on Thursday, the body of Dominican fighter Rafael Antonio Sánchez (Jack Veneno) will be on display, which will then be cremated. This last process would take between three and four days.
The fighter’s daughter, Paola Sánchez, once said that once Jack Veneno’s body was cremated, the ashes would be scattered in the Caribbean Sea, in front of Eugenio María de Hostos Park, the place where the iconic fights in which the athlete participated were organized.
“He demanded that some of the ashes be scattered in the Caribbean Sea, in front of Eugenio María de Hostos. The love of the Dominican people for my father made this process of giving up his physical body much easier, because his essence will remain with us “, said Paola Sánchez.
“Her last days were difficult, but thanks to the living God she was able to feel the love of her family and the love of her people. As a daughter and as a family we are very grateful,” she said.
The World Ball Champion died on Tuesday, at the age of 79, after fighting pancreatic cancer. His death clothed the Dominican nation in mourning.
Facts about him
Jack Veneno was originally from the city of San José de Ocoa. He finished high school in Santo Domingo, but in an entrepreneurial way he managed to play in a program with the highest audience and turnover after the company “Dominicana de Espectntación” led by his partner Arcadio Disla Brito (Vampiro Cao). After Cao’s death, Veneno became the sole owner of the company.
“Lucha Libre Internacional” ran through the main local channels and with “Tertulia Induveca” captivated the public by offering sponsoring products, from salami, a packet of Mama Inés coffee or a self-shining buffalo for shoes, before the delivery of Forty Malt for those older, then Jack Veneno rode the Sanyang engine with the audience choir and announcers Silvio Paulino (f), Alberto Tamarez (f), Ramón Calcaño and Ray Ramírez.
The entertainment program allowed Veneno to show more easily the bearded face of the Dominican and the “good” based in “Cuadra Técnica”, with which he fought the “evil” represented by “Cuadra Ruda” and his archivist José Manuel Guzmán Marte, alias ” Relámpago Hernández ”, who died in July 2011 and was known as“ The Bad Genius ”and also“ La Gallina ”.