Butty tales are still recounted with wonder in Kilburn
It’s been 35 years since he passed away after apparently attempting to carry a fridge up the stairs of one of his pubs, The Wellington in Shepherd’s Bush, which was a surprising way for it all to end for someone who carried his reputation.
Sugrue is still best remembered as the man behind Muhammad Ali’s bout against Al ‘Blue’ Lewis in Dublin in 1972 and the shenanigans surrounding that episode were so many and so colourful that Dave Hannigan mined a book, The Big Fight out of it some years back.
