{"id":800150,"date":"2026-07-13T23:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800150\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:54:13","slug":"maltese-boxing-legend-bertu-camilleri-celebrates-82nd-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800150\/","title":{"rendered":"Maltese Boxing Legend Bertu Camilleri Celebrates 82nd Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maltese boxing legend Bertu Camilleri is celebrating his 82nd birthday, with heartfelt wishes pouring in from the community he has inspired for decades.<\/p>\n

In a post shared today, Bertu\u2019s Gym wished its founder a happy birthday, thanking him for inspiring generations through the iconic G\u0127arg\u0127ur gym.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for inspiring so many through Bertu\u2019s Gym. Wishing you a wonderful year ahead filled with health, happiness and continued success,\u201d the post read.<\/p>\n

A former boxing champion, Camilleri founded Bertu\u2019s Gym more than four decades ago, transforming it into one of Malta\u2019s most iconic fitness and boxing institutions. Over the years, he has mentored countless athletes while building a community that extends far beyond the gym floor.<\/p>\n

In 2022, Lovin Malta teamed up with Videocafe to produce the documentary Bertu \u2013 A Story Of Gym, Boxing And Community<\/a>, which explored Camilleri\u2019s remarkable life, his boxing career and the lasting legacy of the gym he built into a national institution.<\/p>\n

Even today, Bertu remains a familiar and much-loved face at the gym, continuing to inspire people of all ages with his passion, dedication and trademark smile.<\/p>\n

READ NEXT: Albanian Convicted In Tign\u00e9 Hold-Up To Be Deported After Court Ruling<\/a>\"\"Dylan Attard is a Social Media Executive at Lovin Malta and a proud Gozitan with a passion for digital media, content creation, and social trends. Outside of work, you\u2019ll usually find him at the gym, watching series or doomscrolling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maltese boxing legend Bertu Camilleri is celebrating his 82nd birthday, with heartfelt wishes pouring in from the community…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-800150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}