Thomas Hearns (born 1958), American 8-time world champion professional boxer
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Ronald Hearns (born 1984), American professional boxer and the son of Thomas "Hitman" Hearns
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Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns in 1981 and 1989, eagerly anticipated confrontations in the history of boxing
Three of the most famous cases of a fighter using the bolo punch were when Leonard avenged his loss to Roberto Durán (see "The No Más Fight"), when Leonard drew with Thomas Hearns in their second fight (see Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns), and when Ike Ibeabuchi knocked out Chris Byrd with a left-handed bolo punch during their 1999 heavyweight contest.