Sugar Ray Leonard’s depiction of himself in his upcoming autobiography is hardly flattering. He describes himself as a philandering husband, an absentee father and a substance abuser. Perhaps most shockingly, he revealed he was sexually abused by a prominent, but unnamed, boxing coach while preparing for the 1976 Olympics in Montreal.
He was hardly the All-American boy that his carefully crafted image portrayed him to be.
“I’ve done a lot of things in my life that I’m not proud of,” Leonard said soberly during a telephone interview.
Sugar Ray Leonard easily handled foes like Donny Lalonde. But out-of-the-ring battles were something altogether different.
(AP)He goes into great detail about them in his new book, “The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring,” co-written with Yahoo! Sports writer and editor Michael Arkush, not out of any sense of duty, but out of a desire to lift a burden from his own back.
Leonard seeks catharsis through new book - Boxing
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