Thomas Hearns

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Thomas Hearns

American boxer

Also known as: Tommy Hearns, the Hitman, the Motor City Cobra

Written by Adam Augustyn

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Also called:: Tommy Hearns

Bynames:: the Hitman and the Motor City Cobra

Born:: October 18, 1958, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. (age 66)

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Thomas Hearns (born October 18, 1958, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.) is an American boxer who became, in 1987, the first person to win world titles in four weight divisions. Renowned as a devastating puncher (rather than as a boxer who relied on textbook technique), Hearns ultimately won world titles in five weight classes (welterweight, light middleweight, middleweight, super middleweight, and light heavyweight). (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.) Hearns grew up in Detroit, where he took up boxing at age 10. As a teenager, he began training at the Kronk Gym, which would become celebrated for turning out dozens ...(100 of 389 words)

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