By the time Thomas 'The Hitman' Hearns was done throwing his feared right hand in 2006, the city had taken so many blows over the decades that its population was knocked down and out of the country's top 20 towns. Gordie Russ II of Detroit is hugged after winning his bout during a Detroit Brawl boxing event, Saturday, March 5, 2022, in Dearborn, Mich.
A few laughs, too, when a fighter's vomit stopped one bout and another was delayed because a competitor failed to put on a protective cup. Detroit boxing scene fighting to make comeback to relevance 02:58ĭETROIT (AP) - Inside the MotorCity Casino one recent night, there were roars from the crowd as boxer after boxer was knocked out.
