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Articles by Carlos Acevedo

About Carlos Acevedo
Carlos Acevedo is an award-winning boxing writer and was the founder of The Cruelest Sport and is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America. His work has appeared in Inside HBO Boxing, Undisputed Champion Network, Boxing News, Remezcla, Boxing Digest, and Esquina Boxeo.  His stories “A Darkness Made to Order” and “A Ghost Orbiting Forever” both won first place awards from the BWAA. He is a member of the International Boxing Research Organization (IBRO). Carlos is the author of Sporting Blood, published by Hamilcar Publications. Connect with Carlos on Twitter @cruelestsport.
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Shoot the Moon: The Title Reign of Larry Holmes Part VII, Scott LeDoux

March 12, 2020 Carlos Acevedo

This is the seventh installment in Carlos Acevedo’s Shoot The Moon series covering the career of Larry Holmes. *** July 7, 1980 For the good old American life: For the money, for the glory, and for […]

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Double Impact: Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury II Preview

February 20, 2020 Carlos Acevedo

After more than a year of infomercials, mismatches, network cloak-and-dagger, promotional shell games, and the kind of 24-7 hype that makes “Hell is other people” (Sartre) a cyberspace specialty, the rematch between Deontay Wilder and […]

Boxing History

Standoff: The Story of Jose Stable, from Contender to Inmate

January 15, 2020 Carlos Acevedo

It was not revenge—not exactly—that motivated Jose Stable during his long march toward Emile Griffith and a shot at the welterweight championship of the world. Stable had been friends with ill-starred Benny Paret, the man […]

SAUDI ARABIA - DECEMBER 8, 2019: British boxer Anthony Joshua (L) and his American rival Andy Ruiz Jr struggle in their bout for the IBO, WBA Super, IBF and WBO World Heavy Titles at Diriyah Arena outside Riyadh. Valery Sharifulin/TASS (Photo by Valery SharifulinTASS via Getty Images)
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Sand and Fog: Anthony Joshua Avenges his Loss to Andy Ruiz, Jr.

December 9, 2019 Carlos Acevedo

It was over, more or less, at the weigh-in. When Andy Ruiz Jr. scaled 283 pounds the day before his scheduled rematch with Anthony Joshua, he did so resembling a tipsy tourist strolling along a […]

Fight Previews

What Some Might Call Desire: Regis Prograis-Josh Taylor Preview

October 25, 2019 Carlos Acevedo

When Josh Taylor and Regis “Rougarou” Prograis signed contracts in 2018 binding them to the World Boxing Super Series, they assured themselves of one thing: danger. The wallflowers, morning glories, and small dreamers of contemporary […]

Boxing Profiles

Edwin Valero: The Disinherited, 1981‒2010 | by Carlos Acevedo

October 23, 2019 Carlos Acevedo

This piece by Carlos Acevedo, author of Sporting Blood, is a companion to Berserk: The Shocking Life and Death of Edwin Valero, written by Don Stradley (Hamilcar Publications, November 2019). *** 1. “Beneath it all, desire […]

Errol Spence Jr vs Shawn Porter
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Grand Illusions: Errol Spence, Jr.‒Shawn Porter Preview

September 26, 2019 Carlos Acevedo

Just two and a half years ago, the PBC pettifogging machine announced a welterweight tournament, of sorts, that promised to bring some elusive clarity to one of the most talent-rich divisions in boxing. It never […]

Boxing History

Shoot the Moon: The Title Reign of Larry Holmes Part VI, Leroy Jones

September 23, 2019 Carlos Acevedo

This is the sixth installment in Carlos Acevedo’s Shoot The Moon series covering the career of Larry Holmes. *** March 31, 1980 “Never being happy isn’t the same as being unhappy. Is it?”— Montgomery McNeil, Fame […]

Boxing Analysis

24-7 Fantastamatic: A Bloody Tyson Fury Defeats Otto Wallin

September 17, 2019 Carlos Acevedo

When Otto Wallin was born, in 1990, professional boxing was still outlawed in Sweden, a country that turned its back on blood sports barely a decade after producing a national hero in Ingemar Johansson. Wallin, […]

Boxing Analysis

Desert Devils: Andy Ruiz Jr. and Anthony Joshua Meet in Saudi Arabia

August 16, 2019 Carlos Acevedo

It is no easy task for boxing to set off a firestorm during the dog days of summer, but Eddie Hearn, head of Matchroom, managed this improbable feat when he held a curious press conference […]

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