you defeated roberto duran, thomas hearns, marvelous marvin haggler. you have a new memoir "sugar ray leonard, the big fight, my life in and out of the ring." do you miss the ring, sir? >> i don't miss getting hit. (laughter). >> stephen: the key is to not get hit. somebody should have told you that. (laughter). >> you know, stephen, i miss the camaraderie, i miss training camp. i miss choreographing the fight in my head. i miss all that action. >> stephen: choreograph, do you tap dance, like all americans do? >> yes. a little bit. >> stephen: a little bit? >> stephen: heel ball change... what do you call that? kick ball change? >> that's as far as i got. >> stephen: now you really came to prominence in the 1976 montreal games and that's when i became a huge fan. you were the big star of those games. you go in there, set your man up and then you hit him with this absolute flurry. you face straight on to the guy and it looks like you hit him 50 times in three seconds and they will turn to guava jelly in front of you. was there a name for that flurry you

and a year later, november 1980, the roberto duran rematch. it will be a war.fight against marvelous mark hager. and march 1997, coming out of retirement at the age of 40, and still a warrior, sugar ray writes about all of this and much more in the new autobiography, the big fight, my life in and out of the ring. he joins us live from washington. great to see you, champ. >> thank you so much. >> as we saw right there. you showed a lot of highlights from your career and how sweet it was for sure. at the beginning of the book, you actually point out that there was sugar ray, then there was racht sugar ray was fearless, then there was fear. has there always been two rays? >> not necessarily, sugar ray game when i was 14. my goal went to the olympics, got become a professional fighter, be special inside the ring and outside of the ring. and those things did come to fruition, as sugar ray started getting more famous and wealthier, there was a conflict at some point, i believe in the hype too much of who i was, and was kind of a split personality. i've had a wonderfu

of tall n various weight classes like there used to be, joe frazer, muhammad ali, tommy hearns, roberto duran for pound. because these guys today, they don't necessarily fight the best fighters, pound for pound. >> got ask, because we sought clip at the beginning from "the fighter". dickey he can lund, did he he knock you out or you slip? >> i slippeded. i slipped. >> depends how ask. >> i slipped. >> never laid a glove own, right? >> dick was to you. dickey was tough. >> did you enjoy making that movie, was it fun? >> so surreal, deja vu. i loved it and christian bale, a amazing, amazing. >> champ, it's great to have you. >>> it is so nice to might. >> congratulations on the book. sugar ray leonard. the book is "the big fight, my life in and out of the ring." thank you so much for being here. >> thanks. >>> up next, former rnc chairman michael steele and later, the great larry king joins us on this set. we will be right back. too much on your plate? no matter when you get around to booking, hotels.com will have a great last minute deal waiting for you. like at the hotels.com 48 hour sale. th