Avelino Muñoz Stevenson

He was diagnosed with pulmonary emphysema in 2016. He battled the disease by using various methods, including natural medicine, until early in June 2019, he was admitted to Hospital del Maestro in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, needing a blood transfusion. He remained in a coma about three weeks, until he died on June 21, 2019, the victim of bacteria. He was 62 years old.

During the 1980s, Muňoz Stevenson was the main sportscaster for WIPR-TV, channel 6 on Puerto Rican television. He was in charge of the station's daily newscasts' sports news and of occasional live sports events shown on Puerto Rico's governments' television station. In 1988, upon the creation of Channel 24, a Puerto Rican 24-hour news television station, Muňoz Stevenson moved there. Later on, Muňoz Stevenson worked at TeleOnce, Telemundo Puerto Rico and at TeleOnce's successor, Univision, as a sportscaster and sometime actor, comedian and television producer.

Avelino Muñoz Stevenson (November 23, 1956 at San Juan, Puerto Rico – June 21, 2019 at Hato Rey, Puerto Rico) was a Puerto Rican television sportscaster, newspaper reporter, actor, comedian, show host, emcee, television producer and musical promoter of Panamanian descent. He was, for many years, the main sportscaster and sports news director of Puerto Rico's channel 6's television news shows. Muňoz Stevenson was also the leader of the "Cabecitas Rapadas" foundation, which aims at helping cancer patients and their families with among other things, pharmacy, transportation and treatment costs.