55 year old boxing legend, Sugar Ray Leonard will be releasing his New Book:”The Big Fight”: My Life in and Out of the Ring next month May of 2011.

I don’t want to give out too much of the book but when headline came out that not only did Sugar Ray Leonard have a hard life growing up: domestic abuse in the house hold, cocaine,surviving a car crash,fathering a child at the age of only 17, and now reveals he was sexually abused by his Olympic coach. It breaks my heart just reading what Sugar Ray went through and I’m eager to pick up this book and write a review on it.

Much has been revealed about the ex-fighter, widely seen in boxing as only second to Muhammad Ali, in his new book ‘The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring’.

‘He had unzipped my pants and put his hand, then mouth, on an area that has haunted me for life. I didn’t scream. I didn’t look at him. I just opened the door and ran’

Sugar Ray Leonard 

The sexual abuse allegations began when he went to a boxing event in Utica, New York, in 1971 aged 15 with another teenager and an unidentified ‘prominent Olympic boxing coach’.

The coach got them to take a bath while he sat on the other side of the bathroom - and they thought it was ‘inappropriate’ but not want to question him, he wrote.

Then several years later Leonard said he was sitting in a car in an empty car park and listened as the same coach explained the importance of an Olympic gold medal.