It had been a while since I had enjoyed a conversation at length with noted boxing historian and HBO Sports contributor Bert Sugar. Sugar had been a tad under the weather and wasn?t on the scene for two of Las Vegas? biggest events, the September Floyd Mayweather-Victor Ortiz duel and the November trilogy bout between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez. But with a New Year has also come the news that Sugar is again upbeat and once again focusing his attention back to the boxing world. Without delving into his condition, the affable New Yorker was quick to point out that he is again homebound and that he is getting ?better every day? during our talk on Thursday night.
For the past year and a half I had been keeping tabs with Sugar for our ongoing column and was pleased to hear that he was up for talking some more boxing on this night.
