Zillow reports that eight-time world champion boxer Thomas “Hitman” Hearns is now facing foreclosure for his Detroit home that, according to Zillow, reached a peak in value back in 2007 at just over $800,000 but is now worth less than half that amount.
According to the Detroit News, Hearns is past-due on taxes and mortgage payments, owing a total of $961,156.
Just on Hearns’ home alone, he owes $512,965 and the bank has filed notice that his home is scheduled for a foreclosure sale on March 23, according to The Legal News (free subscription required to access article).
I’ll never forget those “glory days” of welterweight and middle-weight boxing back in the 1980s when grown men would crowd around 19 inch TVs to watch fights on pay-per-view involving Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Durán, and Marvin Hagler.
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Tim,
not sure how you meant the comment about the fighters but I for one can remember watching Marvin Hagler vs. Thomas Hearns in 1985 with my Dad on PPV and it was maybe my favorite memory of my Dad and the econf best fight I ever saw (Arguello vs Pryor I is #1). Hagler was from Brockton which was not far from where I grew up. I remember when Thomas Hearns blew Roberto Duran away in 2 rounds, that was scary. Hearns vs Leonard I was an all time classic and the rematch was great as Leonard got planted twice!
Anyways, I do love boxing.
I guess that was one of those times when I was not being sarcastic. I really enjoyed those 1980s fights but I remember hosting the Hearns – Leonard fight and it was, literally, 15 or 20 grown men crowding around a 19 inch TV…
Was that th first one in 1981, or the rematch? Glad you were not kidding, I both used to box and love boxing very much!
Sorry to add, but Hearns started off as ” The Motor City Cobra” which I liked very much.
I’m from Easton, PA originally – home of The “Easton Assassin” Larry Holmes.He still lives less than a mile from my mother.
It must have been a rematch because it was in 1985 or 1986.
Hearns-Leonard I was in 1981 and the rematch was in 1989. Maybe you meant another fight?
Larry Holmes beating Gerry Cooney was great. Holmes was robbed in the rematch vs Spinks.
It must have been 89.