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Sugar Ray yearns for golden age

Boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard, a former world champion at five weights, explains to Darryl Broadfoot what motivated him to embrace reality TV show The Contender.

Sugar Ray Leonard put the nobility in the noble art. A member of ring royalty, he had a jab that flashed quicker and brighter than his smile, and often to similarly disarming effect.