Matthew Aguilar

Matthew Aguilar is a columnist and sportswriter. Over his nearly 30-year writing career, he has contributed to Associated Press, USA Today, The RING, Ringside Seat, Boxing Weekly, many newspapers within the Gannett newspaper company and his hometown El Paso Times, where he covered everything from college football and basketball to rodeo. Now based in Chicago, he is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America, the Transnational Boxing Rankings and is a voter for the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the El Paso Boxing Hall of Fame in 2013.

David Benavidez And Gilberto Ramírez Return ‘Cinco De Mayo’ Weekend To Its Raza Roots

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Besides giant sombreros, Corona beer ads, and too many tequila shots, Cinco de Mayo has also become synonymous in recent decades with Mexican boxing, as the sport’s promoters put on major shows that often showcase the sport’s biggest Mexican superstar against an outstanding rival. It’s often called boxing’s Super Bowl weekend. But the glamour has […]

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I Heart NY: Lopez vs Stevenson is One of The Best 140 lb Matchups Ever- And It Belongs In The Apple

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Forty-three years ago, undefeated Davey Moore was scheduled to defend his WBA junior middleweight title against legendary former lightweight and welterweight champ Roberto Duran on May 27, 1983, in South Africa. It was to be the co-main event of a supercard that also included Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini defending his lightweight title vs. Kenny “Bang

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The WBC has Always Been A Scourge on Boxing

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Terence Crawford revealed anew what past generations have known for a long time: the WBC (World Boxing Council) is a terrible organization. Consider, it’s been 35 years since then-WBC President Jose Sulaiman tried to deny the heavyweight title from James “Buster” Douglas after the underdog’s shocking knockout victory over Mike Tyson. Yet, the WBC continued

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Canelo Alvarez vs Terence Crawford: Legacies On The Line

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In 1987, world middleweight champion Marvelous Marvin Hagler fought Sugar Ray Leonard in a superfight that was expected to be an easy win for Hagler. Considered the longtime best fighter in boxing, the ferocious Hagler was making his 13th defense against Leonard, a retired former welterweight and junior middleweight champ coming off retinal surgery who hadn’t

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Al Bernstein Recalls Hagler-Hearns 40 Years Later: ‘This Felt Like Another Level’

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Al Bernstein was a few years into his career as a boxing broadcaster when he received the assignment of a lifetime. He had been calling ESPN’s weekly Top Rank Boxing series and had worked one other superfight. But this was different.  This was Marvelous Marvin Hagler vs. Thomas “Hitman” Hearns. “It was quite an event

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Livingstone Bramble Wasn’t Great; But For 27 Months-He Was Damn Good

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Going into the biggest fight of his life, Livingstone Bramble was seen as a tough challenge for WBA lightweight champion Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini, if not a little run-of-the-mill. He had banged out many a 10-round decision over solid competition on cable television but didn’t do so with any particular flair. He was simply a

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Differing Paths Have Led The Two Davids (Benavidez & Morrell) To A Battle For Legacy

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Great eras and great fights are often born in the most unexpected of ways. In trying to fill the void left by Sugar Ray Leonard’s retirement, Marvelous Marvin Hagler performed cautiously against Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns did so ferociously a few months later. The result was Hagler and Hearns fighting each other in 1985

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Partners In History & Legal Woes, Ruiz And Miller Finally Cross Paths

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You never know what might come from desperation. People writing you off, dismissing you, making you feel irrelevant. It can have a profound psychological effect on a fighter that could either light a fire in his belly – or make him timid and self-conscious. Last week, desperation gave us the former, as old warhorse Derek

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