Bert Sugar dies

Per teh Twitterz.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/25/iconic-boxing-writer-and-historian-bert-sugar-has-died/

Very sad, another one of those pure journalistic characters you'd have to make up if he didn't exist.

 

ESPN Classic has to run a marathon with all the shows where Sugar sat and pontificated. And smoked. And drank.

 

A self-promoter without peer, and that was an art before the Internet, 24-hour talk radio and all-sports TV channels.

 

Wow. I loved Bert Sugar. He was such a throwback -- almost a stereotype, even -- a quintessential character who was exactly the kind of boxing reporter you'd expect to see in a film.

Damn, RIP.

 

He blurred the line to where you couldn't tell if he was the real deal, completely full of crap or some combination thereof.

 

Funny part is, that fit in perfectly with the world of boxing.

 

I knew Bert since the mid-'70s, not well, but I knew him. This is very, very sad news. And I doubt if Bert himself could've told you where the real ended and the make-believe began. It was all one.

 

RIP for sure. I don't know a lot about Boxing, but I do remember watching Bert Sugar on TV all the time talking about it. Damn.

 

Abe Vigoda makes it again.

This was close for him as they both wore fedoras.

 

I'm sorry to see the passing of one of my favorite sports media figures. A true character with his gravelly voice talking about Ali....

Sugar was also a very successful advertising executive and that enabled him to buy into the boxing publication world.

 

His column in Boxing Illustrated had a few of my favorite headlines:

1). "And now about some people who are so stupid they think metronomes are midgets who work for MGM."

and (regarding the AMA and its campaign to abolish boxing):

2). "How to play golf on Wednesdays and God the rest of the week."

RIP.

 

Please change the thread title. Based on official SJ guidelines, it should
read: RIP Burt Sugar