The Cruelest Sport
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Carlos Acevedo: Author of Sporting Blood. Editor @hannibalbox. Founder of The Cruelest Sport. Contributor: @BoxingNewsED. Ex-@UCNlive & @HBOboxing. Member BWAA.
I was interviewed by @guardian for a story on The Exorcist. “Because it was an A-film The Exorcist captured the attention of a middle-class audience that would never have driven their station wagon to see Last House on the Left or Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” theguardian.com/film/2023/dec/…
Recently received: Blood & Hate—the inspiring story of Marvelous Marvin Hagler and his struggle to reach the top. By @DaveWedge. Published by @HamilcarPubs. #books #boxing #marvelousmarvinhagler
Happy PUB DAY to @DaveWedge! BLOOD & HATE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF MARVELOUS MARVIN HAGLER'S BATTLE FOR GLORY now available wherever books are sold! 📕🥊💎 Life comes at you hard. Be like MMH. 👊 ORDER ⬇️⬇️ a.co/d/etx5JAL
Happy PUB DAY to Lucy Wightman! PRINCESS CHEYENNE: MY LIFE AS BOSTON'S MOST FAMOUS STRIPPER now available wherever books are sold! 📕💎 Boston legend and possessor of a devastating pen! ORDER ⬇️⬇️ a.co/d/1HsxXj5
In our new issue, @seanpasbon explains how clout chasers ruined boxing—and greedy promoters and lax regulators helped. thebaffler.com/salvos/brawl-f…
I’ll finish the excellent book by @BonomoJoe (@UnivNebPress) today or tomorrow. Who shall entertain me next? Will it be storyteller extraordinaire @DonStradley (@HamilcarPubs)? Or the wondrous wordsmith @MarkKriegel? Or the inimitable @cruelestsport (@HamilcarPubs)?
Middleweight contender Joey Archer once embarrassed Ingemar Johansson during a sparring session. “Give me a few more pounds and I could take that bum,” Archer boasted after being sacked from his twenty-five-dollar-a-day gig with Johansson. hannibalboxing.com/brief-lives-jo…
Joey Archer, 1938 - 2025. hannibalboxing.com/brief-lives-jo…
Sporting Blood Audio Book on sale now! audiobooks.com/promotions/pro…
NOW AVAILABLE! Charles Farrell's THE LEGEND OF MITCH "BLOOD" GREEN AND OTHER BOXING ESSAYS 📕💥🥊 "Readers will find its vibrant psychological, social, political, and personal revelations are just the ticket for a read that is solid in its facts, unexpected in its focus and…
Honored to be profiled by @Assad5Rick. I kvetch a bit here but I promise I'm nicer in person. (This was conducted last year, so before the recent news about TKO and Saudi Arabia). tss.ib.tv/boxing/feature…
Fall '25. "Rumble in the Jungle" Paperback Edition. New foreword by the maestro, Carlos Acevedo.
Rainy day double feature: the Faber Stories edition of Thom Jones’ SONNY LISTON WAS A FRIEND OF MINE and SPORTING BLOOD by @cruelestsport.
Don't sleep on this. 📕 💎🥊 #Merica ORDER ⬇️⬇️ amazon.com/Duke-Life-Lies…
Knockout sale on the audio book of Sporting Blood, until February 15, 2025. Now you can listen to these Tales from the Dark Side of Boxing ! audiobooks.com/promotions/pro…
On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, I wrote for @thebafflermag about the misunderstood French film director Claude Sautet, a contemporary of the New Wave much maligned by critics but adored by the public, and his affinity to J-P Melville: thebaffler.com/latest/francai…
Standoff: The Story of Jose Stable, from Contender to Inmate. hannibalboxing.com/standoff-the-s…