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sugar ray Leonard and thomas hearns both did it on the same weekend.

if you include the wbo title, hearns did it first, beating James "the heat" kinchen for the inaugeral wbo supermiddleweight title.

if not then Leonard (three days later) won the wbc lightheavy and inaugeral wbc supermiddle titles beating donny lalonde.

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