Sporting Blood

Sporting Blood, by Carlos Acevedo, an award-winning boxing writer and HBO contributor, is widely considered one of the brightest stars in modern boxing journalism.This is his ¿rst book, and is a collection of essays that contains his best classic material plus four new pieces and an introduction.The book also features a foreword by Thomas Hauser, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominee, who is widely recognized as one of the world's preeminent boxing authors. Hauser has won the prestigious Prix Lafayette, the Nat Fleischer Award for Career Excellence in Boxing Journalism, and the Haviva Reik Award.