Did you like Bert Sugar

I spoke to Bert once, on the Chet Coppick TV show. He's the type who knows what he's going to say before you ask him a question. My impression of the man is the character he portrayed to the media was equally or perhaps more important than himself.

Some actors make fun or sometimes loathe at their most noted character in TV or film. Leonard Nimoy for example, and his relationship with Mr. Spock. With Bert if you insulted his hat ( part of his alter ego ), you insulted him greatly.

You should have yelled, “ Hey Bert, the President is here with some interns and wants to know if you can lend him your cigar. He might have liked that one. “

 

I wouldn't say he was that good for boxing. At best he was neutral. He wasn't a boxing historian, just a self-promoter who found his niche in pretending to be a boxing old timer, regaling the audience with colourful tales about Jack Johnson, Harry Greb, Stanley Ketchel and co that came from old Ring magazines and half of which weren't even true anyway. He was always getting things wrong too. I remember one interview where he repeatedly referred to the Klitschkos as Russians.

 

LMAO! Bert "the braggart-&-I'm right-even when I'm wrong" Sugar...all day long!!!