Thomas Hearns
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Thomas Hearns is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 2006. Nicknamed the "Motor City Cobra," and more famously "the Hitman," Hearns' tall, slender build and long arms and b
Hearns in 1981
Hearns, center, in Detroit, December 1981.
Hearns signs autographs in Houston in January 2014
Sugar Ray Leonard
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Ray Charles Leonard, better known as Sugar Ray Leonard, is an American former professional boxer. Often regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time, he competed professionally between 1976 and
Thomas Hearns
…Hearns was voted "Fighter of the Year" by Ring Magazine in 1980. In 1981, Hearns the WBA Champion, with a 32–0 record (30 KOs), fought WBC Champion Sugar Ray Leonard (30–1) to unify the World Welterweight Championship in a bout dubbed "The Showdown". In this fight, Hearns suffered his first professional defeat when…
Leonard in 1998
Leonard photographed in June 1979
Leonard in 2007
Sugar Ray Leonard (background, second from right) at the Mike Tyson Tyrell Biggs fight in Atlantic City in 1987