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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.
Boxer Muhammad Ali Knocking Out Cleveland Williams
Boxing History

Brief Lives: Cleveland Williams

June 27, 2018 Carlos Acevedo

Photography implies that we know about the world if we accept it as the camera records it. But this is the opposite of understanding, which starts from not accepting the world as it looks. All […]

Joey Archer
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Brief Lives: Joey Archer

June 22, 2018 Carlos Acevedo

A comebacking Ingemar Johansson, who had just seen his reign as heavyweight champion halted by Floyd Patterson, hardly inspired his supporters when, in a huff, he ejected one of his livelier sparring partners from the […]

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The Duke: The Life and Lies of Tommy Morrison

George "Sugar" Costner's career record was 74-12-3 (43).
Boxing Analysis

Double Take: George Costner, the Man Who Would be Sugar

May 9, 2018 Carlos Acevedo

He was one of the earliest Sugar Ray knockoffs, but unlike other first-wave Robinson devotees—Johnny Saxton, Freddie Dawson, and Johnny Bratton, for example—George Costner actually had the audacity to dub himself “Sugar.” Costner, a welterweight […]

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The Lower Deep: On Saul “Canelo” Alvarez

April 24, 2018 Carlos Acevedo

Ever since Brooklyn button man Bugsy Siegel opened the Flamingo Hotel in 1946, Las Vegas has been the pit stop for casual, catchall amorality in the United States. But not even Sin City seems willing […]

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