Thomas Hearns
Thomas Hearns
Thomas "Tommy" Hearnsis an American former professional boxer. Nicknamed the "Motor City Cobra" and more famously "The Hitman", Hearns' tall and slender build allowed him to move up over fifty pounds in his career and become the first boxer in history to win world titles in four weight divisions: welterweight, light middleweight, middleweight, and light heavyweight. By later winning a super middleweight title, he also became the first to win world titles in five weight divisions...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBoxer
Date of Birth18 October 1958
CityMemphis, TN
CountryUnited States of America
Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.
I'm going to fight again because this wasn't a fight.
That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.
I started slow, ... I thought, 'This can't be happening to me.' I was very alert, very aware, but around the fourth round, some of the rust started coming off and I juiced it up.