Christian Giudice was born in Haddonfield, NJ. He currently lives in Charlotte, NC and teaches English at Harper Middle College High School. A Villanova graduate, Christian has written Hands of Stone: The Life and Legend of Roberto Duran, whose subject was the focus of a motion picture, Beloved Warrior: The Rise and Fall of Alexis Arguello and A Fire Burns Within: The Miraculous Journey of Wilfredo Gomez. Christian is also the author of the forthcoming book Macho Time: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of Hector Camacho (Hamilcar Publications 2020). Carlos Acevedo 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, Boxing News, Remezcla, Boxing Digest, and Hannibal Boxing. His stories A Darkness Made to Order and A Ghost Orbiting Forever both won first place awards from the BWAA. Acevedo is also a member of the International Boxing Research Organization. He is the author of Sporting Blood (Hamilcar Publications 2020).
"Hector 'Macho' Camacho...survived a difficult childhood to become
a world champion before his lifelong struggle with addiction led to
his murder at the age of 50. Giudice's take on the complicated
fighter will move even those who've never tuned into a boxing
match."--Publishers Weekly
"The first full-length biography of the legendary boxer...with a
penchant for flamboyant outfits and behavior that won him both fans
and foes. Giudice writes with sensitivity about Camacho's lifelong
struggle with drugs and excessive partying that robbed him of a
chance at true greatness...Boxing fans who remember the ascendant
days of lighter-weight fighters such as Roberto Duran, Sugar Ray
Leonard, Julio Cesar Chavez, and Oscar De La Hoya will want to
read."--Library Journal
"In yet another skillful excavation of a dazzling Latino champion,
Christian Giudice--the author of acclaimed biographies of Roberto
Duran, Alexis Arguello and Wilfredo Gomez--follows Hector 'Macho'
Camacho from his embattled childhood in Spanish Harlem, to the
heights of his electrifying yet too-brief stardom and onto his
abject end by hail of gunfire in a carful of cocaine. It is a
compelling journey."--Mark Kram Jr., author of Smokin' Joe: The
Life of Joe Frazier
"The bullets that eventually found Hector Camacho had shadowed him
throughout his tempestuous life. In this penetrating biography,
Christian Giudice reveals the showman, the artist, the clown and
the assassin--the erratic family man and the pride of Spanish
Harlem. The Macho Man was a blazing comet streaking across the sky,
bringing brilliance and destruction, then disappearing all too
soon."--Mike Stanton, author of Unbeaten: Rocky Marciano's Fight
for Perfection in a Crooked World
"All of boxing's dark romance is here. The raw material of Hector
Camacho's wild, sad yet sometimes stellar life expertly distilled
and movingly told."--Jon Hotten, author of The Years of the Locust:
A True Story of Murder, Money and Mayhem in the Last Age of Boxing
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