Sugar Ray Leonard: I Was Abused

In his upcoming memoir, The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring, Sugar Ray Leonoard says he was sexually abused as a young fighter by an unnamed “prominent Olympic boxing coach.” Leonard alleges two incidents of abuse. The first, he says, came when he was 15 and the coach had him bathe with another boxer. Then, later, the coach tried to perform oral sex on Leonard, who says he ran away. “Last year, after watching the actor Todd Bridges bare his soul on Oprah’s show about how he was sexually abused as a kid, I realized I would never be free unless I revealed the whole truth, no matter how much it hurt,” Leonard writes.