On June 12, 1989, Sugar Ray Leonard (35-1, 25 KOs), the super-middleweight WBC champion, and the super-middleweight WBO champion Thomas Hearns (46-3, 38 KOs), meet in a title-unification fight.
Sugar Ray Leonard is coming in to the fight on a 8-fight win streak with a 69% KO rate; his last fight was a 9th round TKO victory over Donny Lalonde, 7 months and 5 days ago. Thomas Hearns is on a 1-fight win streak with a 77% KO rate, with his last fight being a majority decision win over James Kinchen, 7 months and 8 days ago.
This should be a confident win for Sugar Ray Leonard at 99-1 winning odds. Thomas Hearns really doesn't have much to present against Leonard.
The fight ended in a split decision draw, and both the fighters retained their titles and added a draw to their respective records. — Leonard is now 35-1-1 and Hearns, 46-3-1.