Bert Sugar

Bert Sugar

Bert Randolph Sugar (born June 7 1936, in Washington, D.C.) is a well known boxing writer. Among his trademarks are his ever-present cigar and fedora.

Sugar graduated from the University of Maryland and earned a JD and MBA from the University of Michigan in 1961. After passing the bar exam, he worked in the advertising business in New York City.

Sugar bought "Boxing Illustrated" magazine in 1969 and was editor until 1973. From 1979-1983 he was editor and publisher of "The Ring." In 1988 he once again began editing "Boxing Illustrated". In 1998 he founded "Bert Sugar's Fight Game".

Sugar has written over 80 books, mostly on boxing history. He has also appeared in several films playing himself, including "Night and the City", "The Great White Hype" and "Rocky Balboa". He has been called "Runyonesque" (in reference to Damon Runyon) by Bob Costas, and "one of the foremost historians alive," by the Boston Globe newspaper. Along with Lou Albano he helped write "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pro Wrestling."

Sugar was elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in January 2005.

External links

* [http://lml.suffolk.lib.ny.us/AudBook.htm Interview with Bert Randolph Sugar about "Boxing's Greatest Fighters", Lindenhurst Memorial Library: BookTalk]


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