Matthew Aguilar
176 articles · El Paso Times
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No surprise: Pacquiao is the fighter of the year
With the end of 2009 drawing to a close, it's time to recognize the year's best work. Fighter of the Year Manny Pacquiao: Pacquiao's dominance was again the year's biggest headline --…
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Fight at Cowboys Stadium would make boxing relevant again
You could probably point to June 27, 1988, as the last time the whole world really cared about a big boxing event. That night, Mike Tyson and Michael Spinks squared off for…
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Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight still may be at Cowboys Stadium
Negotiations to putthe March 13 superfightbetween Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. in Cowboys Stadium have been revived and an offer has been made by Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, a source close…
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Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.: Fighters not standing in the way of super bout
Whether you are a Manny Pacquiao fan or a Floyd Mayweather guy, you have to give both fighters credit:neither have hampered negotiations for a proposed megafight that likely will happen in early…
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Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. superfight belongs in Cowboys Stadium
With Cotto conquered, Pacquiao vs. Mayweather should be made....now! With a pair of pay-per-view fights drawing more than a million buys in 2009, boxing is enjoying a spike in popularity that it…
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Cotto-Pacquiao bout will be big mismatch
CHICAGO -- On paper, Miguel Cotto vs. Manny Pacquiao looks like a highly-competitive showdown between two of the world's elite boxers. Both are multiple world champions who have defeated the best fighters…
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Matthew Aguilar: Manny Pacquiao rekindles interest in1-punch KO
The reason Manny Pacquiao's spectacular destruction of Ricky Hatton caught everybody's attention last month is simple: it re-introduced them to boxing's most fascinating, mesmerizing, chilling moment: the one-punch knockout. Here is a…
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Manny Pacquiao breathing life back into sport
Thank goodness for Manny Pacquiao. The fearsome Filipino is singlehandedly making boxing relevant again. He's the most exciting performer in the sport. He's a perfect gentleman. And, perhaps most significantly, his knockout…
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Manny Pacquiao will show his superiority over Hatton
LAS VEGAS -- A pair of huge flags -- one Filipino, one British -- draped the podium in the press room at the MGM Grand in LasVegas, showing the worldliness of Saturday's…
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Love him or hate him, Oscar De La Hoya earned fame
Heading into the later stages of his fight against Felix Trinidad on Sept. 18, 1999, Oscar De La Hoya looked like a fighter destined for greatness. He had outboxed the undefeated Trinidad…
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Manny Pacquiao could have his pick of huge fights
Now that Manny Pacquiao has emphatically reestablished himself as the best fighter in boxing following his eighth-round destruction of Oscar De La Hoya last week in Las Vegas, it's time to look…
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Oscar De La Hoya gets payback for Julio Cesar Chavez 10 years down road
LAS VEGAS -- It was a little more than 10 years ago that Oscar De La Hoya defeated Mexican legend Julio Cesar Chavez for the second time. After his victory in which…
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Manny Pacquiao overpowers Golden Boy
LAS VEGAS -- Going into Saturday, most experts believed the "Dream Match" between Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao would be a mismatch -- a mismatch favoring the much bigger De…
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“Dream Fight” has drama at weigh-in
LAS VEGAS -- It didn't take very long for the "Dream Fight" to deliver a surprise. And a controversy. Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao, who weighed in Friday before an…
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Pound-for-pound ranks get shakeup
CHICAGO -- With a stunning victory by a 43-year-old icon last week, the El Paso Times Pound-for-Pound list underwent a few unexpected changes. Drum roll, please. The new list 10. Cristian Mijares…
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Pacquiao underdog against the Golden Boy
CHICAGO -- With the awesome Chicago skyline as a backdrop, Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao stood side-by-side on the 102nd floor of the Sears Tower. Right then and there --…
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Short list vies to be Chavez’s successor
CHICAGO -- It's been 10 years since the unofficial end of Julio Cesar Chavez's career -- the night he lost to Oscar De La Hoya for the second time, Sept. 18, 1998.…
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Casamayor to offer up stiff test for Marquez
CHICAGO -- It was March 2006 when Juan Manuel Marquez -- coming off a thrilling draw with Manny Pacquiao -- took a questionable fight with difficult boxer Chris John. Marquez lost a…
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ANALYSIS OF MARQUEZ-PACQUIAO II
There were times when it seemed Juan Manuel Marquez would never reach the greatness for which he seemed destined. There was the 1999 debacle with Freddie Norwood, a clinch-fest so appalling that,…
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BOXING’S FALL LINE-UP IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS
Call these next two weeks the “quiet before the storm.” It’s been a while since boxing, criticized as of late, and supposedly nonexistent after the Floyd Mayweather-Oscar De La Hoya megafight in…
