Sugar Ray Leonard won an Olympic gold medal with a smile so bright that corporate sponsors lined up before he turned professional. Behind the charm was a childhood of sexual abuse and an adulthood of cocaine addiction and domestic violence that he kept hidden for decades while becoming the most marketable fighter of his era.

This episode traces Leonard from his Palmer Park childhood through the 1976 Olympics, his legendary rivalries with Duran, Hearns, and Hagler, and the personal demons he fought long after leaving the ring.

• He won the Olympic gold medal in boxing at the 1976 Montreal Games at age twenty
• He revealed decades later that he was sexually abused as a young boxer by trusted figures in the sport
• His “no mas” fight against Roberto Duran in 1980 remains one of boxing’s most famous moments
• He defeated Thomas Hearns and Marvin Hagler in superfights that defined the golden age of boxing