Sugar Ray Leonard promotes book in Atlanta

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Photos: Retired professional boxer Sugar Ray Leonard visits the Atlanta Art of Boxing center on Friday, June 10, 2011. He has a forthcoming autobiography, "The Big Fight."

Retired professional boxer Sugar Ray Leonard was in Atlanta Friday promoting his new autobiography, "The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring."

On Friday, boxer Sugar Ray Leonard visited the Atlanta Art of Boxing center with his publicist Shannon Twomey, of the Penguin Group.

A poster on the wall of the Atlanta Art of Boxing center advertises the fight between Sugar Ray Leonard and Johnny Gant on Jan. 11, 1979 at the Capitol Centre in Landover Maryland. Leonard defeated Gant in round 8.

Sugar Ray Leonard reminisces with Johnny Gant (right) at the Atlanta Art of Boxing center in Midtown on Friday, June 10, 2011. The two fought in 1979 in the Mid-Atlantic Welterweight Championship.

In his autobiography, "The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring," boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard reveals details about his life, including his cocaine use, growing up in a home with alcohol abuse and domestic violence, and sexual abuse by a coach.

Sugar Ray Leonard takes a moment to talk seriously about a portion in his autobiography where he writes about being sexually abused as a young man.

Sugar Ray Leonard shares a laugh with Johnny Gant. In recent years, Leonard, who won boxing championships in five weight divisions at least 25 years ago, has been on a boxing reality show and on "Dancing With the Stars."

Before an interview at WAOK and WVEE headquarters in Atlanta, Leonard uses his smart phone to play a song he danced to while a contestant on "Dancing with the Stars."

Construction workers from Groundhog Directional Boring greet Sugar Ray Leonard outside the Atlanta Art of Boxing center.

Retired professional boxer Sugar Ray Leonard gets a photograph with Groundhog Directional Boring employee Joe List out front of the Atlanta Art of Boxing on Friday afternoon in Atlanta, Ga., June 10, 2011

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Retired professional boxer Sugar Ray Leonard was in Atlanta Friday promoting his new autobiography, "The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring."

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