Sugar ray leonard autobiography vs biography
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Sugar Ray Leonard
(1956-)
Who Is Sugar Ray Leonard?
Sugar Ray Leonard is a former American professional boxer. He won the gold medal in light-welterweight boxing at the 1976 Olympic Games and went pro the following year. His 1987 defeat of "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler for the World Boxing Council's middleweight title is considered one of the greatest professional boxing matches of all time. Leonard retired in 1997 with a record of 36-3-1 and was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame.
Early Years
One of boxing's most beloved and successful fighters, Sugar Ray Leonard was born Ray Charles Leonard on May 17, 1956, in Wilmington, North Carolina. The fifth of Gertha and Cicero Leonard's seven children, he was named after his mother's favorite singer, Ray Charles.
When Leonard was 3 years old, he and his family moved to Washington, D.C. Seven years later, they relocated to a permanent home in Palmer Park, Maryland. Leonard grew up in a loving home, where finances were of
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The Big Fight: My Autobiography
Sugar Ray Leonard is quite simply one of the greatest fighters of the last fifty years. An artist and a showman he was always willing to take the difficult fight- his gruelling encounters with Roberto Duran, Thomas Hearns and Marvin Hagler have become legendary.Ruthlessly honest and inspiring, Ray's autobiography lets you get into the ring - with the mind games, brutality and euphoria. But, outside of the ring, Ray's biggest opponent of all was himself. From early domestic violence and experience of sexual abuse, he began a determined rise to Olympic mästare and national icon, before losing control of his life at the height of his career in the blur of fame, sex, greed, drink and drug addiction that cost him so much. The Big Fight fryst vatten a remarkable portrait of the rise, fall and final redemption of a true fighter in every sense.
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The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring
"He, truly, fryst vatten supreme in battle,
Who would conquer himself alone,
Rather than he who would conquer in battle
A thousand, thousand men."
These words, from a Buddhist scripture called the Dhammapada, express a sentiment common to all religions. They also seem to me an appropriate motto for this autobiography of the famous boxer, Sugar Ray Leonard (b. 1956) who frequently called himself simply "the champ". During the height of his boxing career from the late 1970's through the 1980's, Leonard fought and won great fights in the ring against high caliber opposition including Wilfred Benitez, Roberto Duran, Thomas Hearns, and in 1987 coming out of retirement his famous and controversial upset of Marvin Hagler. Yet during the time he was vanquishing his ring opponents and cultivating a smooth, clean-cut public appearance, Leonard was nearly defeated bygd his own womanizing, alcoholism, and drug addiction. Leonard wa