Bert Sugar

Bert Randolph Sugar (June 7, 1937 – March 25, 2012) was a boxing writer and sports historian.

Biography
Career
Sugar also appeared in several movies playing himself, including Night and the City, The Great White Hype and Rocky Balboa. Interviews with Sugar feature in Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. Sugar had been referred to as "Runyonesque" (in reference to Damon Runyon) by Bob Costas, and "one of the foremost historians alive," by the Boston Globe. Along with Lou Albano, he helped write The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pro Wrestling. He wrote a regular sports column for Smoke Magazine.

Death
A cigar-smoker most of his life, Sugar died from cardiac arrest on March 25, 2012. His family was at his bedside in Northern Westchester Medical Center in Mount Kisco, New York. He had spent his remaining years battling lung cancer.

References

Other websites
 Talkin' Boxing with Bert Sugar - Boxing Insider - August 12, 2011 

Category:1937 births
Category:2012 deaths
Category:Deaths from cardiac arrest
Category:American historians
Category:Writers from Washington, D.C.