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.

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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With Launch Of FightsATW, Boxing & Wrestling are Partners Once Again

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Decades ago, before the emergence and popularity of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), boxing and wrestling were considered the ultimate combat disciplines, at least, they were the most visible, especially on the United States scene. The two sports were so intertwined that there were magazines dedicated to both, like the obviously named “Boxing and Wrestling.” Do

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