![]() Thomas Hearns: Early Life & Amateur Record Slender and tall to the point of being slight, Thomas Hearns’ oversized arms/shoulders along with an extensive reach more than compensated for this, helping him move up over fifty pounds during his career and become the first boxer in history to win world titles in five different weight divisions: welterweight, light middleweight, middleweight, super middleweight and light heavyweight. Thomas Hearns had an unusual build for a boxer of his weight class. Hearns ending Cuevas’ 4-year reign and earning the WBA Welterweight title in the process with a TKO win in the second round before carrying a 32-0 record into ‘The Showdown’ with Sugar Ray Leonard (more on which later). Indeed Thomas Hearns would knock out his first 17 professional opponents, before carrying his 28–0 record into a first world title match against Mexico’s Pipinos Cuevas in 1980. Largely unknown by his first nickname ‘Tiger Tommy’, Hearns subsequently became the ‘Motor City Cobra’ (his preferred moniker), before most famously assuming his ‘nom de guerre’ of ‘The Hitman’ as he blitzed and blazed his way through the professional ranks and weights. Thomas Hearns was an American professional boxer who competed at the very apex of the sport for just short of three decades (1977 to 2006).
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