In boxing most fighters who reach a plateau are defined by a particular moment, if they’re lucky, of fistic grace. The fact is the vast majority of fighters, amateur and professional, will never achieve greatness. Boxing singles out its preeminent warriors on the fingers of the pugilistic God’s two fists every decade and sometimes there are less then ten counted. To be great, to transcend the era battled through, is rare. Thomas Hearns was such a fighter. [details]