Genaro "Chicanito" Hernandez good news!

divac · Apr 5, 2009

http://www.presstelegram.com/moresports/ci_12051909

Have'nt seen it posted yet on this forum and just wanted everyone to know the good news from the "Chicanito" homefront......

......according to his doctors, the cancer is gone and apparently defeated......

.....The doctors believe they got rid of all of it, and reading it just made my day!!!!:happy:happy:happy:happy

bulakenyo · Apr 5, 2009

Yeah, I heard it first on PACLAND. Congratulations and I hope he stays healthy.

MrMagic · Apr 5, 2009

I have been worried about Genaro for a while!

This is really great news, god bless him!

DoinDamage · Apr 5, 2009

Great, great news!:happy:happy:happy:happy

Borincano · Apr 5, 2009

Thanks for posting it, great news.

dhenzrae · Apr 5, 2009

good for him :happy

RepublicaAztlan · Apr 5, 2009

Thanks for sharing the good news

Farmboxer · Apr 5, 2009

Glad to hear the good news. I was worried about him.

MAG1965 · Apr 5, 2009

great news. All the best Genaro.

bulakenyo · Apr 13, 2009

An article about Bob Arum and an update about Genaro Hernandez's condition.

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-...ter-Arum-sprouts-wings-in-champs-cancer-fight

Pacquiao promoter Arum sprouts wings in champ's cancer fight
April 13, 2:41 PM
Michael Marley

Manny Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum has tried his best to keep a lid on this. He probably thinks he can keep my big mouth shut on it as well.
The Top Dawg from Top Rank is one of the richest and most powerful people in boxing. Hes got real political strength in hometown Las Vegas and through the entire state of Nevada.

Arum runs with big dogs, with governors and United States Senators. I bet hes got Democratic power broker Harry Reid on speed dial. They probably have lunch together from time to time what with Arum being an business tycoon in Vegas and a lifelong supporter of the donkey party dating back to the pre-boxing days when he worked under Robert Kennedy in the Justice Department.

Arum, 78 and holding, will discourse on almost every subject. He will be flapping his lips in public Tuesday in New York as he kicks off prefight hype for the big Miguel Cotto-Joshua Clottey June 13 title bout at boxings onetime Mecca, Madison Square Garden.

But I can tell you theres one topic that will be verboten at the Garden. There is one subject that Arum wont lay a glove on.

No, its not something as trivial as how Cottos uncle and erstwhile trainer, Evangelista Cotto, recently hurled a brick through the window of his nephews spiffy Jaguar or how they had a fistfight outside a gym in Puerto Rico.

No, what Arum will demur to discuss is a matter of life and death and the crucial role he has played and continues to play.

Or maybe I should say pay.

You see, Ive just learned from an impeccable source that it is Arum who has gone into his personal pocket to pay the astronomical medical bills, or a large portion of them, for two-time former world junior lightweight champion, Genaro Chicanito Hernandez.

Heres a squib from an excellent article about Chicanitos plight and fight as written by Michele Chong I believe on Myboxingfans.com. I hope Ive gotten the source right. She wrote:

Unfortunately, the disease runs in his family and he tells me during our conversation that both his father and mother had cancer. Genaro, 42, says with disbelief: "I had no symptoms, just a little lump near the jaw area that I thought was fatty tissue. So I went to the doctor to have it removed back in September. Then after about a week, I noticed two other lumps near my collarbone, so I had a CAT scan. At first they didn't think it was cancer--the tests came back negative. But after a biopsy, they found tumors growing in my sinus and my lymph node. I have a rare form of cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma that is usually only found in kids."

Read the entitre article as carried by the Burbank Boxing Club website.

Now lets reveal my happy and relieved source, fight trainer and Chicanito brother Rudy Hernandez:

People can say this and that about Bob Arum, Rudy H. told me over the weekend by phone from Los Angeles. I have probably cursed out Bob once in a while. I figure Bob wont talk about this so I want people in boxing to know about it.

My brother is winning his fight for life according to his great doctors in Houston. Hes still got a lot of chemotherapy sessions to go and hes slimmed down to 118 pounds. I never thought I would see my brother, a world champion twice at 130 pounds, being a bantamweight again.

But, as you know, my brother has a family to support. Hes got a wife and kids and hes been able to keep up somewhat with calling fights on TV. He will be working the Spanish telecast for Pacman-Hatton come May 2, courtesy of Bob Arum.

"In our rough business, promoters get kicked and sometimes they do the kicking. But its been Arum who has picked up the bulk of the medical costs for Genaro and I think people should know about, know this side of Bob Arum. Hes been a Godsend in this regard.

If you know the Rude Dog, and most everyone in boxing does as hes worked with the likes of Edwin Valero, Jorge Linares and many other world champions past and present, he does not sugarcoat his words.

In this case, I wont ask Arum for amplification. In this case, I wont call him an angel or say he has finally earned his wings.
But this good deed is worthy of being duly noted. And now it has.

Its not the first time Arum has gone to bat for a troubled fighter. When Top Rank boxer Richie Sandoval was seriously hurt in a fight and had to retire, he was at loose ends and badly in need of financial help.

Bingo, Arum hired Sandoval as a pr guy for the Spanish language market and he worked right out of the Top Rank Gym in Las Vegas.

The Ali-Frazier Manila bout documentary on HBO Saturday reminded me of a silent but charitable act committed by Arums archrival, Don King.

When Alis mystical corner man Drew Bundini Brown died, he was headed for a paupers burial in rural Florida.

Quietly but deftly, King footed the bill for a proper sendoff for the float like a butterfly, string like a bee man when no one else stepped up.

I got that story from an avowed enemy of King at the time, the late fight agent Norman Henry, so I knew it to be true.

No one should measure Arum, King or any other fight promoter for an angel costume but I do think their occasional good deeds should go unpunished but not unnoticed.

Fight promoters with some heart. Who would have thunk it?

I figure it like this: we slam them when we think theyre doing bad so lets be fair and give them a thumbs up when we catch them doing right. Chicanito may be ahead on points but he has many rounds to go. He was a winner in the ring with a 38-2-1 pro record and he will be a winner in this fight which makes boxing Floyd Mayweather look like an easy task.

(Kudos also to Senor Sulaiman, the lovely and talented Ms. Diamond, Emperor of Japan Boxing Mr. Honda and all the others who have helped this deserving ex-champion out.)

Nearly 80, Bob Arum has sprouted some wings.

Guess age has nothing to do with being angelic.
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JM22 · Apr 14, 2009

Great news!!!

Hatesrats · Apr 14, 2009

:happy

divac · Apr 14, 2009

bulakenyo said: ↑

An article about Bob Arum and an update about Genaro Hernandez's condition.

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-...ter-Arum-sprouts-wings-in-champs-cancer-fight
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Bob Arum screwed over many a fighter to be able to help Chicanito the way he did.......as Marley stated in the article, "it should be noted.".......this should also be noted.

Regardless, Arum did'nt have to dig into his pockets like that, so I'm glad to hear that the man actually has a ticking heart!

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