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Bert Randolph Sugar (born June 7, 1936, in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
) is a well known boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 writer. Among his trademarks are his ever-present cigar
Cigar

A cigar is a tightly rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco which is ignited so that its smoke may be drawn into the smoker's mouth. Cigar tobacco is grown in significant quantities in Brazil, Cameroon, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Sumatra, the Philippines, and the Eastern United States....
 and fedora
Fedora (hat)

A fedora is a soft felt hat that is creased lengthwise down the Hat#Parts of a hat and pinched in the front on both sides. Similar hats with a C-crown are occasionally called fedoras....
.He currently resides in Chappaqua, New York
Chappaqua, New York

Chappaqua is a Political subdivisions of New York State#Hamlet and Political subdivisions of New York State#Census-designated place in Northern Westchester Westchester County, New York, New York....


Sugar graduated from the University of Maryland
University of Maryland, College Park

The University of Maryland, College Park is a public research university located in the city of College Park, Maryland in Prince George's County, Maryland outside Washington, D.C....
 and earned a JD
Juris Doctor

Juris Doctor is a first professional degree graduate degree and professional doctorate in law degree. The degree was first awarded by Harvard University in the United States in the late 19th century as a degree similar to the old European doctor of law degree and the legal studies counterpart to the M.D....
 and MBA from the University of Michigan
University of Michigan

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan is a public university research university located in the state of Michigan. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan, which also includes two regional campuses in University of Michigan-Flint and University of Michigan-Dearborn....
 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.






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Bert Randolph Sugar (born June 7, 1936, in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
) is a well known boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 writer. Among his trademarks are his ever-present cigar
Cigar

A cigar is a tightly rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco which is ignited so that its smoke may be drawn into the smoker's mouth. Cigar tobacco is grown in significant quantities in Brazil, Cameroon, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Sumatra, the Philippines, and the Eastern United States....
 and fedora
Fedora (hat)

A fedora is a soft felt hat that is creased lengthwise down the Hat#Parts of a hat and pinched in the front on both sides. Similar hats with a C-crown are occasionally called fedoras....
.He currently resides in Chappaqua, New York
Chappaqua, New York

Chappaqua is a Political subdivisions of New York State#Hamlet and Political subdivisions of New York State#Census-designated place in Northern Westchester Westchester County, New York, New York....


Sugar graduated from the University of Maryland
University of Maryland, College Park

The University of Maryland, College Park is a public research university located in the city of College Park, Maryland in Prince George's County, Maryland outside Washington, D.C....
 and earned a JD
Juris Doctor

Juris Doctor is a first professional degree graduate degree and professional doctorate in law degree. The degree was first awarded by Harvard University in the United States in the late 19th century as a degree similar to the old European doctor of law degree and the legal studies counterpart to the M.D....
 and MBA from the University of Michigan
University of Michigan

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan is a public university research university located in the state of Michigan. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan, which also includes two regional campuses in University of Michigan-Flint and University of Michigan-Dearborn....
 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. Various boxing books that Sugar has written include Great Fights, Bert Sugar on Boxing, 100 Years of Boxing, Sting like a Bee (with Jose Torres) and Boxing's Greatest Fighters. Sugar was called "The Greatest Boxing Writer of the 20th Century" by the International Veterans Boxing Association.

Other media

He has also appeared in several films playing himself, including Night and the City
Night and the City (1992 film)

Night and the City is a 1992 in film film remake of the 1950 film noir Night and the City, and not based on the source novel. The film stars Robert De Niro and Jessica Lange....
, The Great White Hype
The Great White Hype

The 1996 movie The Great White Hype stars Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Berg, Damon Wayans, Jeff Goldblum, Jon Lovitz, Cheech Marin, John Rhys-Davies and Jamie Foxx ....
 and Rocky Balboa
Rocky Balboa (film)

Rocky Balboa is a 2006 in film written and directed by Sylvester Stallone who also stars as underdog Boxing Rocky Balboa. It is the sixth and final film in the Rocky , which began with the Oscar-winning Rocky thirty years earlier in 1976....
. He has been called Runyonesque (in reference to Damon Runyon
Damon Runyon

Damon Runyon was a newspaperman and writer.He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition in the United States era....
) by Bob Costas
Bob Costas

Robert Quinlan "Bob" Costas is a sportscaster, on the air for the NBC network since the early 1980s....
, and "one of the foremost historians alive," by the Boston Globe newspaper. Along with Lou Albano
Lou Albano

Louis Vincent Albano , better known by his ring name Captain Lou Albano, is an Italian-American former professional wrestling, professional wrestling manager and actor....
 he helped write The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pro Wrestling.

Sugar was elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame
International Boxing Hall of Fame

The modern International Boxing Hall of Fame is located in Canastota, New York, New York, United States, within driving distance from the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown and the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta, New York....
 in January 2005.

January 20th 2009, on Prime Time Sports in Canada, Bert Sugar referred to mixed martial arts as nothing more than a barbaric bar fight without broken beer bottles. He said that he wasn't sure if the cage was meant to keep the fighters in or the crazed crowd out. He said boxing fans do NOT like MMA at all. Claimed it was only a 4% crossover between boxing fans and mma fans. Identified MMA fans as bikers who are all covered in tattoos. He said boxing was chess with human bodies, while MMA was Grand Theft Auto with human bodies. He said MMA is NOT a sport and takes no skill at all. <05:50, 29 January 2009 (UTC)05:50, 29 January 2009 (UTC)~~unsourced quote

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