16, 1981. At the time, Hearns was 32-0 and the reigning WBA 147-pound titlist. Leonard was the defending WBC champion. They clashed at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for the undisputed welterweight ...

Leonard captured world honours for the first time in 1979 when he defeated Wilfred Benitez via stoppage in the final round of ...

discounted a news report out of Detroit yesterday that Leonard and archrival Thomas Hearns were close to signing for a third fight. Leonard won the first match in 1981, stopping Hearns in the 14th ...

Floyd Mayweather Jr and Marvelous Marvin Hagler are two of the very best fighters to have ever laced up the gloves.

In my mind’s eye, I can see them again and again as they were. Start with Leonard and Hearns in Vegas. Hearns was 32-0, but Leonard was favored in Vegas, while Hearns was favored in a poll of ...

Across the ring sat Thomas Hearns and the spindly 6ft 1in frame he had somehow boiled down to 145lbs for a fight marketed as 'The Showdown'. "It was the perfect soundbite," Leonard tells the new ...

Sugar Ray Leonard fought the best of the best, but to him, there was no one like Thomas Hearns. “He was a freak of nature,” Leonard said. “With his height, with his reach, with his power ...

Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas ”Hitman” Hearns took a ride on the CTA Tuesday. To help promote a ”war” to be waged by the CTA and by Chicago Police against crime on the rapid transit ...

First, it was Sept. 16, 1981. Tommy Hearns. Ray Leonard. The “Showdown” at 147 pounds. Any fight fan in my age group remembers it like it was yesterday. And as I glance at the calendar and ...