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By Robert Morales - Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero had just stopped Edel Ruiz in the first round on the January 2009 undercard of the "Sugar" Shane Mosley-Antonio Margarito welterweight title fight at Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Guerrero was all smiles as he sat in a chair on press row talking to reporters. He was happy to have beaten Ruiz. But the bulk of his happiness came from having received a phone call from his wife, Casey, during the weigh-in for that fight. She told her husband she had just been declared in remission from her leukemia, which she was diagnosed with in November 2007.
Unfortunately, the leukemia returned that August, not long after Guerrero beat Malcolm Klassen to win the super featherweight world championship; Guerrero had already won a featherweight belt.
"It's just like getting your head knocked off, knowing what you have already been through with her and seeing what she had been through," said Guerrero, who will take on Joel Casamayor on July 31 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on the undercard of Juan Manuel Marquez-Juan Diaz II. "It's like, 'Here we go again.' "It was tough to find out she relapsed again and that you have to go through the whole process. You can only go through so many treatments when your body stops taking the chemotherapy. Chemo only works so long. As you relapse, the sickness gets immune to it and it keeps coming back." [Click Here To Read More]
Guerrero was all smiles as he sat in a chair on press row talking to reporters. He was happy to have beaten Ruiz. But the bulk of his happiness came from having received a phone call from his wife, Casey, during the weigh-in for that fight. She told her husband she had just been declared in remission from her leukemia, which she was diagnosed with in November 2007.
Unfortunately, the leukemia returned that August, not long after Guerrero beat Malcolm Klassen to win the super featherweight world championship; Guerrero had already won a featherweight belt.
"It's just like getting your head knocked off, knowing what you have already been through with her and seeing what she had been through," said Guerrero, who will take on Joel Casamayor on July 31 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on the undercard of Juan Manuel Marquez-Juan Diaz II. "It's like, 'Here we go again.' "It was tough to find out she relapsed again and that you have to go through the whole process. You can only go through so many treatments when your body stops taking the chemotherapy. Chemo only works so long. As you relapse, the sickness gets immune to it and it keeps coming back." [Click Here To Read More]
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