Before Good Friday, when he began the final crisis that brought him out of this world with the band on, Jack Verí shook one of Paola’s hands and said goodbye to the tenderness he always lavished on her: ” My cute little girl I love you. “
The sad scene took place on Thursday two of this month, the day on which the legendary fighter preferred that the National Cancer Institute Rosa Emilia Tavárez (Incart) give him the medical discharge that allowed him to spend at home the last hours of life in the company of the eight surviving children and Gisela Bonetti, his wife.
“Here was the last conversation we had,” reveals Paola Sánchez, who was delicately not asked her age during the vigil that has been held in Room One of the Blandino Funeral Home, Abraham Lincoln Avenue, where athletes, politicians, businessmen and other spheres of national life have paraded to say goodbye.
“When he entered gravity, he communicated with us by shaking hands. ‘My cute little girl’ will forever remain in my memory. I thank God for allowing his children to say goodbye to the Champion of the Ballot of the World, to the champion of our hearts “, he expressed.
Jack Michael, another of Rafael Sanchez’s children, a figure with zero rejection rate, admired by young children, adults and the elderly who turned into a Touch of Remain the “International Wrestling”, which every Saturday at noon , broadcast on Color Vision channels 9 and 2, will remember him as the champion he always was.
“I will keep him in my memory as the father concerned for the well-being of the family, his children, as a working father and as the champion who fought to the end,” said Jack Michael, who four decades ago accompanied Veneno to take a ride on the Olympic Stadium track in a brand new red convertible car.
He highlighted the pride that Jack Verí always had of wearing the national flag as a cape and the three colors in the kit in his big fights with “Ric Flair”, “Puny de Ferro”, “El Monge Boig” and “Llampec Hernández “,” The Genius of Evil “, his last great rival, among others.
“The Son of Doña Tatica”, who died on Tuesday morning at the age of 78, was also a natural marketer who shot up the popularity and sales of all the products that favored Professional Wrestling, including some bitter sip medicines.
Among the people who came to see him for the last time and to offer his condolences to his relatives were the Minister of the Environment, Orlando Jorge Mera; Dr. Alejandro Vargas, President of the Superior Administrative Court; the Deputy Minister of Sports, Franklin De la Mota; the holder of this sports portfolio, Felip -Jey-Payano, and the Olympic medalist Gabriel Mercedes.
Also, fighters of different generations, some masked, which is giving a nice touch to the funeral services of Rafael Sanchez, who in the open coffin keeps his forehead high, impeccable, with his leafy black beard.
Among them are “El Bronco” and “El Raig de Nueva York”, which came from the United States to say goodbye to the human being who more than 50 years ago inspired him to join this sport-show and then helped him take the first steps.
The family, to fulfill a wish of the idol of the twelve ropes, will be burned today and part of its ashes will be scattered in the early afternoon in the Caribbean Sea, in front of the Eugenio de Hostos Park, where he fought his main battles in the 70s and 80s.
The rest at the Porta de el Cel Cemetery, where the family will once again have to be on the side of the protagonist of the “Tuvú Induveca”, the main sponsor of one of the most popular Dominican athletes of all time.
“Forever champion. We will remember you forever,” says the ribbon bordering the green floral arrangement, adorned with white roses sent by “The Induveca Family.”