Bud Bruner

Edgar L. "Bud" Bruner (December 7, 1907 - February 21, 1996) was a boxing manager, trainer, and gym proprietor from Louisville, Kentucky.

Bruner was a star athlete at duPont Manual High School in Louisville. He lettered in baseball, basketball, football and track. Bruner was inducted into the duPont Manual High School Alumni Association Hall of Fame in 2005.

His participation in boxing began in the 1930s while he was employed by the City of Louisville Recreation Department. He was responsible for playground tournaments, followed by district and city championships.

In 1939, Bruner became athletic director at the Army Post in Fort Knox, Kentucky. His responsibilities included setting up and supervising several boxing gyms, organizing and supervising numerous boxing shows and tournaments, and selecting and accompanying a Fort Knox representative team to the State Golden Gloves Tournament. Bruner also managed the baseball team and coached the basketball team.

Among the baseball players Bruner managed at Fort Knox were future Major League players Stan Lopata, Joe Garagiola, Roy Sievers and Early Wynn.

Bruner's basketball teams went up against Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Wildcats four times. Although they lost all four games, Bruner liked to joke that he "knew how to play Rupp" because UK didn't score more than 68 points in any of the games. After seven years in Fort Knox, Bruner resigned and returned to Louisville.

From 1951 to 1959, he served as matchmaker for the Louisville Golden Gloves Tournament. He was also the matchmaker for the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Boxing Trials and for William H. King Promotions.

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