Sugar Ray Leonard & Thomas Hitman Hearns Signed Boxing Gloves Framed
Sugar Ray Leonard & Thomas Hitman Hearns Signed Boxing Gloves Framed
Ray Charles Leonard, best known as "Sugar" Ray Leonard, is an American former professional boxer, motivational speaker, and occasional actor.
Often regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time, he competed professionally between 1977 and 1997, winning world titles in five weight classes; the lineal championship in three weight classes; as well as the undisputed welterweight championship.
Leonard was part of the "Four Kings", a group of boxers who all fought each other throughout the 1980s, consisting of Leonard, Roberto Durán, Thomas Hearns, and Marvin Hagler.
Leonard also won a light welterweight gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
The "Four Kings" created a wave of popularity in the lower weight classes that kept boxing relevant in the post-Muhammad Ali era, during which Leonard defeated future fellow International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees Hearns, Durán, Hagler, and Wilfred Benítez.
Leonard was also the first boxer to earn more than $100 million in purses, and was named "Boxer of the Decade" in the 1980s. The Ring magazine named him Fighter of the Year in 1979 and 1981, while the Boxing Writers Association of America named him Fighter of the Year in 1976, 1979, and 1981.
Thomas Hearns is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 2006.
Nicknamed the "Motor City Cobra", and more famously "The Hitman", Hearns's tall, slender build and oversized arms and shoulders allowed him to move up over fifty pounds in his career and become the first boxer in history to win world titles in five weight divisions: welterweight, light middleweight, middleweight, super middleweight and light heavyweight.
Hearns was named Fighter of the Year by The Ring magazine and the Boxing Writers Association of America in 1980 and 1984; the latter following his knockout of Roberto Durán.
Hearns was known as a devastating puncher throughout his career, even at cruiserweight, despite having climbed up five weight classes. On June 10, 2012, Hearns was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
This frame piece includes an official programme from the fight, 2x red Everlast boxing gloves, one signed by Leonard and one signed by Hearns, comes with a COA and the frame size is 76cm(w) x 50cm(h).