Bert Sugar on Boxing: The Best of the Sport's Most Notable Writer

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Summary: Bert Sugar - Let's Face It You Have To Read It
Review: Bert Sugar - Let's Face It You Have To Read It

Anyone who has poked around the literary side of the sweet science has heard of Bert Sugar.

Anyone who has an interest in boxing has seen the hat and cigar at press conferences and sitting ringside.

Let's face it - Bert Sugar is as much a part of boxing as Angelo Dundee or Doc Brodus or the name Sugar (as in Sugar Ray, Sugar Shane etc)

One of my favorite lines is that Bert Sugar has been covering fights since Cain and Abel!

This is a good book. It's a compilation of some of Sugar's works - 4 sections - sections 1 (Rants & Raves), 2 (The Fighters) & 3 (The Fights) are a collection of articles and section 4 is a brief history of sorts.

It's a really good read and I enjoyed it.

What I have to say next I feel somewhat sacrilegious saying but - I enjoy the Thomas Hauser books more (ex: A Year At The Fights and/or A Beautiful Sickness) and would recommend them before this - that is not to say skip this - you HAVE to read Bert Sugar - it's like saying you're a boxing fan, but unfamiliar with Rocky Marciano's fight record - but if you're a Hauser fan you'll also enjoy Bert Sugar.


Rating:
Summary: Good Collection of Boxing Articles
Review: This is a solid collection of articles on boxing covering boxing from many angles-mini-biographies of great boxing legends, the great fights, and social commentary. I enjoyed the book but it is lacking in a couple of areas. First, it would have been nice to see a fresh new piece by Sugar on the state of boxing today. Second, there really seemed like there should be even more. He covers a lot of great fights but there are a lot of great fights missing. Finally, I was disappointed that there didn't seem to be a lot of "inside " information in the articles, especially the ones on the great fights. It's a nice, if not great, collection of work.

Rating:
Summary: Good Collection of Boxing Articles
Review: This is a solid collection of articles on boxing covering boxing from many angles-mini-biographies of great boxing legends, the great fights, and social commentary. I enjoyed the book but it is lacking in a couple of areas. First, it would have been nice to see a fresh new piece by Sugar on the state of boxing today. Second, there really seemed like there should be even more. He covers a lot of great fights but there are a lot of great fights missing. Finally, I was disappointed that there didn't seem to be a lot of "inside " information in the articles, especially the ones on the great fights. It's a nice, if not great, collection of work.