What is Thomas Hearns's record?

61–5–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 67 bouts individually.

Does a no contest change a record here?

No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.

What happens when sources disagree about a fight?

This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

Thomas Hearns — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

61–5–1

Thomas Hearns has a reach of 78″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of +6.85%, long for cruiserweight boxing and the 83rd percentile of the 80 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1977–2006

SOURCE·Thomas Hearns — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25

How this record is compiled

Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-25. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one.
A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
Percentiles rank this fighter among the 80 cruiserweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

Bout record

Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
2006	W	Shannon Landberg	KO/TKO	10
2005	W	John Long	KO/TKO	9
2000	L	Uriah Grant	KO/TKO	3
1999	W	Nate Miller	Decision	12
1998	W	Jay Snyder	KO/TKO	1
1997	W	Ed Dalton	KO/TKO	5
1996	W	Karl Willis	KO/TKO	5
1995	W	Earl Butler	Decision	10
1995	W	Lenny LaPaglia	KO/TKO	1
1994	W	Freddie Delgado	Decision	12
1994	W	Dan Ward	KO/TKO	1
1993	W	Andrew Maynard	KO/TKO	1
1992	L	Iran Barkley	—	12
1991	W	Virgil Hill	Decision	12
1991	W	Ken Atkins	KO/TKO	3
1991	W	Kemper Morton	KO/TKO	2
1990	W	Michael Olajide	Decision	12
1989	D	Sugar Ray Leonard	Draw	12
1988	W	James Kinchen	Decision	12
1988	L	Iran Barkley	KO/TKO	3
1987	W	Juan Roldán	KO/TKO	4
1987	W	Dennis Andries	KO/TKO	10
1986	W	Doug DeWitt	Decision	12
1986	W	Mark Medal	KO/TKO	8
1986	W	James Shuler	KO/TKO	1
1985	L	Marvin Hagler	KO/TKO	3
1984	W	Fred Hutchings	KO/TKO	3
1984	W	Roberto Durán	KO/TKO	2
1984	W	Luigi Minchillo	Decision	12
1983	W	Murray Sutherland	Decision	10
1982	W	Wilfred Benítez	—	15
1982	W	Jeff McCracken	KO/TKO	8
1982	W	Marcos Geraldo	KO/TKO	1
1981	W	Ernie Singletary	Decision	10
1981	L	Sugar Ray Leonard	KO/TKO	14
1981	W	Pablo Baez	KO/TKO	4
1981	W	Randy Shields	KO/TKO	12
1980	W	Luis Primera	KO/TKO	6
1980	W	José Cuevas	KO/TKO	2
1980	W	Eddie Gazo	KO/TKO	1
1980	W	Santiago Valdez	KO/TKO	1
1980	W	Ángel Espada	KO/TKO	4
1980	W	Jim Richards	KO/TKO	3
1979	W	Mike Colbert	Decision	10
1979	W	Saensak Muangsurin	KO/TKO	3
1979	W	José Figueroa	KO/TKO	3
1979	W	Inocencio De la Rosa	KO/TKO	2
1979	W	Bruce Curry	KO/TKO	3
1979	W	Harold Weston	—	6
1979	W	Alfonso Hayman	—	10
1979	W	Segundo Murillo	KO/TKO	8
1979	W	Sammy Ruckard	KO/TKO	8
1979	W	Clyde Gray	KO/TKO	10
1978	W	Rudy Barro	KO/TKO	4
1978	W	Pedro Rojas	KO/TKO	1
1978	W	Bruce Finch	KO/TKO	3
1978	W	Eddie Marcelle	KO/TKO	2
1978	W	Raul Aguirre	KO/TKO	2
1978	W	Jimmy Rothwell	KO/TKO	1
1978	W	Tyrone Phelps	KO/TKO	3

Showing 60 of 67 recorded bouts, most recent first.

18 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Thomas Hearns — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+6.85%

78″ reach on a 73″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 80 cruiserweight boxing fighters. Median 2.74%.

-3.3%cruiserweight boxing reach advantage9.6%

Measurements
Reach	78″ (198.1 cm)	81st pct
Height	73″ (185.4 cm)	46th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Cruiserweight Boxing competed at 6: welterweight, light middleweight, middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight, cruiserweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1980s — 26 of 67 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

61–5

67 bouts on record

Finish rate

79%

of wins ended inside the distance — cruiserweight boxing median 67%, 75th percentile

By knockout 79%
By decision 21%

The career, bout by bout

67 recorded bouts from 1977 to 2006. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1977–2006

Career span

30y

1977–2006

Longest unbeaten run

31

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1978

11 bouts

Recorded bouts

67

67 with a date

Closest in build

cruiserweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Thomas Hearns's record?: 61–5–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 67 bouts individually.
Does a no contest change a record here?: No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
What happens when sources disagree about a fight?: This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

Cross-references

Cruiserweight boxing

The 161 cruiserweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Hearns sits inside.

161 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing

26 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

205 FIGHTERS Nate Miller vs Thomas Hearns

A bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.

1999 Longest unbeaten runs

Thomas Hearns went 31 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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