pThis is powerful writing. Enjoy it.b--Thomas Hauser, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nomineebppCarlos Acevedo is the most original, perceptive, and best new writer in boxing. Sporting Blood is a vivid and gripping collection.b--Donald McRae, writer for The Guardian and author of Dark Trade Lost in Boxingbpp...this book may cement Acevedo's status as one of today's best boxing journalists.b--iKirkus ReviewsibppBoxing's literary tradition is perhaps the richest in sports. From A. J. Liebling to Donald McRae, the sweet science has consistently inspired great sportswriting. The work of Carlos Acevedo stands firmly in that honored tradition. ppThe essays that make up iSporting Bloodi include Acevedo's moving meditation on Muhammad Ali his penetrating look at Ali's fearsome rival, the enigmatic heavyweight Charles Sonny Liston and his profile of Mike Tyson, which brilliantly conjures the Boy King's late 1980s reign of terror. Acevedo offers many other unforgettable tales from boxing'