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After his spectacular knockout of Roberto Duran on June 15, 1984. Thomas Hearns returned to the ring on September 15 to take on Fred Hutchings in Saginaw, Michigan on CBS. For me, it was the day after the airline I was working for filed for bankruptcy, and was laid off. I really didn’t care, and […]

Thomas Hearns began the year 1983 on top of the world, but during training to stay in shape, hurt his right hand. So badly that he only fought one time the entire year, vs. Murray Sutherland on July 7th at Harrah’s Casino Hotel in Atlantic City. Fighting as a middleweight, Thomas won a unanimous ten

After his loss to Sugar Ray Leonard on September 16, 1981, Thomas Hearns returned to the ring three months later on the undercard of Muhammad Ali’s last fight vs. Trevor Berbick in Nassau, the Bahamas. Thomas moved up to the middleweight division to take on the tough veteran Ernie Singetary. Hearns planned on challenging Marvin

The ‘Showdown’ was the name promoters pinned on the September 16, 1981 Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns fight at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. I wouldn’t have missed this one for the world, and ordered my ticket over the phone. My choice to see it was Atlantic City Convention Hall, the same place

On April 25, 1981, Thomas Hearns took on Randy Shields, an experienced veteran on ABC’s Wide World of Sports. What I remember most about that broadcast, was how critical and annoying Howard Cosell could be. Thomas didn’t run right over Shields, and didn’t stop him until the twelfth round. I saw it as a good

Thomas Hearns was born on October 18, 1958 in Grand Junction, Tennessee. When he was five years old, his family moved to Detroit, Michigan. He had an illustrious amateur career, and finished with a record of 155-8. He signed with Emmanuel Steward as a professional, and made his debut on November 25, 1977 at Olympia

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   After his pathetic performance against Bernard Hopkins on April 3, 2010, Roy Jones returned to the ring as a cruiserweight a year later on May 5th, 2011 in Moscow, the Soviet Union. He took on a guy named Denis Lebedev, weighed in at 198 3/4 lbs., but it made no difference. He was knocked

After his loss to Joe Calzaghe in November of 2008, I thought for sure that Roy Jones would retire. Nothing could be further from the truth. Despite turning 40 in January of 2009, Jones returned to the ring on March 21 in his hometown of Pensacola to take on Omar Sheika. Sheika had been a

       Roy Jones returned to the ring on January 19, 2008 to fight Felix Trinidad at Madison Square Garden in New York. I went over my friend’s house to watch this one on pay-per-view, out of curiosity more than anything else. He got the fight for free since his wife worked for the