{"id":193004,"date":"2026-03-16T02:48:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193004\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T02:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:48:35","slug":"retired-boxer-tommy-hearns-placed-under-sons-conservatorship-free-press-of-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193004\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired Boxer Tommy Hearns Placed Under Son\u2019s Conservatorship \u2013 Free Press of Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Legendary retired boxer Tommy Hearns has been placed under the conservatorship of his oldest son, Ronald Hearns.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0WXYZ, the man known in the sport as \u201cThe Hitman\u201d is\u00a0also under<\/a>\u00a0Ronald\u2019s guardianship after a court hearing on March 11. Ronald would be the sole person to make decisions regarding his father\u2019s personal affairs, including financial and medical matters, under a\u00a0ruling<\/a>\u00a0by Oakland County Chief Probate Judge Pro Tempore Daniel A. O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m fine. I want the world to know that I\u2019m doing fine. I feel good,\u201d Hearns said in an exclusive conversation. \u201cI just want things to just be calm and good, and just move smoothly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Thomas Hearns and his son<\/p>\n

The move comes after a diagnosis of dementia was disclosed by the family. He also recently lost his home due to tax foreclosure, but he is living with Ronald.<\/p>\n

In recent court appearances, family members complained that he was being kept from other members of the family and that he may have been a victim of financial exploitation and alleged kidnapping by some relatives. At an emergency guardianship hearing on Feb. 23, Judge O\u2019Brien heard from family members and Adult Protective Services (APS) workers who were searching for Hearns after being told that Tommy\u2019s daughter and his sister would not disclose his whereabouts.<\/p>\n

APS officials were suspicious after Hearns\u2019 sister, Louise, started a GoFundMe fundraiser for the 67-year-old former boxer.<\/p>\n

Before the judge\u2019s ruling, all family members agreed to appoint Ronald as Tommy\u2019s guardian and conservator.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad is a great man, has a big heart, and for him to be going through this type of situation at this time in his life is terrible,\u201d said Ronald.<\/p>\n

Now that everyone is on board with Tommy\u2019s care, he feels better about his situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cKnowing that you\u2019ve been loved and been thought about, it\u2019s a good feeling because people don\u2019t have to think about you or care anything about you at all. But when people do care about you, and they really do love you\u2026 \u201d It\u2019s a good feeling for me,\u201d Tommy said.<\/p>\n

The fighter has won six championship titles and, during his career, became the first boxer to win titles in five different weight classes. He was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legendary retired boxer Tommy Hearns has been placed under the conservatorship of his oldest son, Ronald Hearns. According…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-193004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}