Matthew Eugene O'Neil (born March 7, 1976 in Newton, Massachusetts) is an athlete, university graduate, and former political candidate. His boxing career is mentioned in the Amazon paperback and kindle ebook Everipedia Boxing Archives. The book is in many libraries, including the Plymouth Public Library in Plymouth, Massachusetts and the historic New Hampshire State Library in Concord, New Hampshire.
Athletic Career
He competed in two USA Boxing sanctioned bouts winning both by stoppage. He knocked out Jeffrey Naquin on June 20, 1998 for a ten count. Naquin was a scholarship athlete on the 1991 and 1993 LSU National Baseball teams. O'Neil tko'd 1997-1998 All Army Superheavyweight Boxing Champion Preston Hartzog on October 8, 1999. Hartzog was the US Armed Forces Superheavyweight Boxing Champion twice and was in the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program. Hartzog won a silver medal at the 1999 Military World Games. O'Neil is the only person to stop Hartzog at any level. Hartzog won fifteen professional boxing matches and he only lost one close decision. Hartzog beat Wesley "Cabbage" Correira in a MMA fight. Correira was top-rated at one point in his career. O'Neil's coach was Colorado based trainer Dickie Wood. Wood was co-trainer of WBC Heavyweight Champion Oleg Maskaev from 2006 to 2008. Wood was the trainer of Diego Corrales for his match with Joshua Clottey. O'Neil's amateur boxing record is 2 wins and 0 losses (2 ko's). He credits sparring semi-professional boxers as to how he advanced his skill level.
The positive results of the Naquin and Hartzog bouts were brought back to the national soccer league that O'Neil competed in as a youth. In 2013 and 2014 Plymouth, Massachusetts received its first NCAA Division 1 baseball scholarships for their high school program. O'Neil was selected for the Air Force Martial arts program on Schriever Air Force Base in 1997 and he used the facility for three years making a positive production result back to the town he was recruited from. O'Neil ran for Clark County Commission in Nevada in 2006 against Rory Reid. Reid ran for governor of Nevada four years later. He worked for Harvard University at the age of twenty five in their development office. He graduated from Colorado Christian University with a B.S. in 2001 and from Regis University in 2004 with a MBA. He was employed with Northfield Leads Inc. for forty three months finishing with agency acquisition for Nationwide Insurance in 2017 and 2018.
Covered By Intuboxing
His career was covered by reporter and author John J. Raspanti. Raspanti co-authored Intimate Warfare, which was published in 2017. In April 2020, O'Neil's boxing career was covered by the United Kingdom based company Intuboxing:
Matthew O'Neil tko'd Preston Hartzog in 1999. Hartzog was in the US Army World Class Athlete program at the time of being stopped. Hartzog was 1997 US Armed Forces Champion in the superheavyweight division. The U.S. came in eight place in the 1999 Military World Games with 26 medals. Hartzog won a silver medal at that games. O'Neil is the only person to stop Hartzog in a conclusive fashion in the amateur or pro ranks. Hartzog defeated Cabbage Correira in a professional MMA fight. Correira defeated Tank Abbott and Butterbean. Jeffrey Naquin retained a division 1 scholarship for the 1991 and 1993 LSU National Baseball teams. He also signed sports memorabilia found on the Internet. Naquin is in the 2017 LSU National Baseball team media guide. O'Neil hopes to compete in a four to six round heavyweight fight at new Encore Casino in Everett, Massachusetts. The US Supreme Court legalized sports gambling in 2019 and Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker has stated that sports gambling will soon be seen at Massachusetts casinos. O'Neil still possesses knockout force and he has the capacity to make it through rounds. *O'Neil has worked in business and for Havard university. In 2006,Rory Reid spent 1 million dollars against him when he ran for Clark County Commission in Nevada. O'Neil is hopeful that his training system can produce one final victory.
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