Hot! Sugar Ray Leonard

Sugar Ray Leonard poses for a marketing photo while in practicing an upcoming bout, Jan. 5, 1991.

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Sugar Ray Leonard states that which seeing that a young boxer they had been sexually mistreated by way of an Olympic boxing coach, reported by your New York Times .

In his / her soon-to-be-published e-book "The Big Fight: My Life In plus Out of the Ring," Leonard identifies this incident, which in turn he claims occurred in the deserted storing great deal inside mid-70s. Leonard produces that a "prominent Olympic boxing coach" within his / her 40s sexually assaulted your pet as being the a pair of sat from a vehicle discussing the forthcoming 1976 Olympics, the particular document reports.

"Before I understood it, he or she acquired unzipped my own pants in addition to decide to put his / her hand, in that case mouth, about an area with which has haunted me personally intended for life. I didn't scream. I failed to have a look at him. I simply opened up the actual door in addition to ran," Leonard writes.

The original champ, whom would not name the particular coach, states of which your dog primarily thought to be glossing covering the incident but subsequently resolved it was crucial for you to reveal, the Times reports.

"I understood I would certainly certainly not become cost-free with regard to I shown an entire truth, despite the amount that hurt," your dog writes.

According on the Times, Leonard candidly takes up some other subject areas in the book, such as his cocaine use, growing up within a home of alcoholic beverages mistreatment as well as domestic violence, and fathering a son with get older 17.

Leonard, right now 55, received the Olympic precious metal honor inside 1976 and also left for gain world titles in five weight categories in the course of his or her illustrious boxing career. He has also seemed about a lot of TV programs, which include the following season's "Dancing With The Stars."

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Leonard dropped to be able to comment on the Times, saying he or she can be selling his ebook in June.