Thomas Hearns

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...