Posted: 15 Mar 2002, 15:29
March 15, 2002
By Mike DeLisa
Reports from Juárez, Mexico today indicate that Luis Villanueva, better known as "Kid Azteca," has been hospitalized in with serious kidney failure, as well as agonizing complicatins from anemia, pneumonia, and peritonitis. The 88-year-old is on a respirator.
The legendary boxer welterweight, born according the some records in 1915 (although the hospital reports June 21, 1913), fought from 1929 through 1961 in nearly 250 fights, holding the Mexican welterweight title for many years, and fighting some of the top fighters of the Thirties and Forties, including Cefarino Garcia, Cocoa Kid, Fritzie Zivic, and Baby Casanova.
Azteca's doctor, Elí García Ruiz, has placed him on dialysis but his condition remains grave and his prognosis guarded.
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By Mike DeLisa
Reports from Juárez, Mexico today indicate that Luis Villanueva, better known as "Kid Azteca," has been hospitalized in with serious kidney failure, as well as agonizing complicatins from anemia, pneumonia, and peritonitis. The 88-year-old is on a respirator.
The legendary boxer welterweight, born according the some records in 1915 (although the hospital reports June 21, 1913), fought from 1929 through 1961 in nearly 250 fights, holding the Mexican welterweight title for many years, and fighting some of the top fighters of the Thirties and Forties, including Cefarino Garcia, Cocoa Kid, Fritzie Zivic, and Baby Casanova.
Azteca's doctor, Elí García Ruiz, has placed him on dialysis but his condition remains grave and his prognosis guarded.
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