Immortal ring legend Thomas Hearns, the first man in boxing history to win world titles at four different weights – 147, 154, 160 and 175, though not in that order – today celebrates his 61st birthday. » Read More
On This Day In Detroit: Tommy Hearns’ Fearsome Right Hand Collides With Doug DeWitt’s Granite Chin
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Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns And The Greatest Welterweight Title Fight Ever
- Leave a CommentSeptember 16th 1981. Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.
Fight fans were the happy and all too eager recipients of a Super-fight that lived up to all Super-fights on this day 38 years ago. » Read More
Uriah Grant: Thomas Hearns Was Not Injured. If The Fight Had Gone On, I would Have Knocked Him Out!
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Boxing legend Thomas Hearns lost just five fights during his incredible (and incredibly long) pro career – As fight fans know, from 147 right up to cruiserweight, “The Hitman” conquered and picked up belts. » Read More
Were The Welterweights From The 1980s Better Than Today’s Best At 147?
- Leave a CommentArguably, next to the heavyweight and the middleweight divisions, the welterweight division captures the attention, and the imagination of fight fans, the most. » Read More
30 Years Later: Recalling “The War” – Leonard/Hearns II
-Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns, the two greatest welterweights of their era, had met in 1981. » Read More
Hagler/Hearns: Eight-Minutes Of Warfare That Had It All
-Twelve letters: Hagler Hearns. Or six letters: The War. » Read More
Thomas Hearns Vs. Evander Holyfield.. Who Would Have Won?
-Thomas Hearns versus Evander Holyfield: who wins? Or who would have won? » Read More
On This Day: Thomas Hearns Has His Final Fight – and “The Hitman” goes out with a win
-Tough clubfighter Shannon Landberg of Indiana holds a footnote in boxing history: that of being the final ring opponent of the legendary Thomas Hearns. » Read More
Happy Birthday Thomas Hearns – The All-Time Great Turns 60 Today!
-Ring legend Thomas Hearns, the first man in boxing history to win world titles at four different weights, turns the milestone age of 60 today. » Read More