Bert Randolph Sugar (born
June 7, 1936, in Washington,
D.C.
) is a boxing writer.
Among his trademarks are his ever-present
cigar and
fedora.
He
currently resides in Chappaqua, New York
Biography
Education
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. In 1959 he
founded the University of Michigan Rugby Football Club.
Career
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. Various
boxing books that Sugar has written include
Great Fights,
Bert Sugar on Boxing,
100 Years of Boxing,
Sting like a Bee (with
José
Torres),
The Ageless Warrior (Preface, with
Mike Fitzgerald) and
Boxing's
Greatest Fighters. Sugar was called "The Greatest Boxing
Writer of the 20th Century" by the International Veterans Boxing
Association.
In May 2009 he and
Running Press
published
Bert Sugar's Baseball Hall of Fame: A Living History
of America's Greatest Game.
Other media
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. He writes a
regular sports column for Smoke Magazine, a quarterly cigar
lifestyle magazine.
Sugar was
elected to the International Boxing Hall of
Fame
in January 2005.
References
- http://www.hbo.com/boxing/bios/bert_sugar.html
-
http://www.amazon.com/Bert-Sugars-Baseball-Hall-Fame/dp/0762430249/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244128765&sr=8-1
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