Matthew O'Neil

Matthew E. O'Neil,Amateur Boxing Record 2 wins 0 losses (2 ko's)

Matthew O'Neil
Info
Birth name	Matthew Eugene O'Neil
Born	March 7, 1976 Newton, MA.
Nationality	United States of America
Boxing Info
Boxing stance	Orthodox
Weight class	Heavyweight
Height	5 feet 11 inches
Total fights	2
Wins	2
Wins by Knockout	2
Losses	0

Picture taken at Peterson AFB: Fitness and Sports Center in December 1998.Ten months later O'Neil TKO'd Preston Hartzog.It is in the library book Everipedia Boxing Archives.

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, Grant Library on Fort Carson and the historic New Hampshire State Library in Concord, New Hampshire. O'Neil is of Irish-English ancestry.

Defeated US Armed Forces Champion

Matthew O'Neil 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 1997, 1999 US Armed Forces Superheavyweight Boxing Champion a member of the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program on Fort Carson Army Base, Colorado. Hartzog won a silver medal at the 1999 Military World Games in Croatia. O'Neil is the only person to stop Hartzog at any level. O'Neil's boxing matches are recorded under the sports category for the Justapedia article for Plymouth, Massachusetts. 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.

Sparred Semi-Pro Boxers

O'Neil's boxing matches took place at 3D Boxing Gym in Colorado Springs which was owned by Dickie Wood. Wood is a former USA Boxing official. Wood was co-trainer of WBC heavyweight world champion Oleg Maskaev from 2006 to 2008. Wood was the trainer of Diego Corrales for his match with Joshua Clottey. Lockheed Martin provided facilitation for O'Neil's matches. O'Neil's amateur boxing record is 2 wins and 0 losses (2 KO's). He credits sparring semi-professional boxers that competed in the Mighty Man tournament in Colorado Springs as to how he advanced his skill level. The Mighty Man tournament was sponsored by bikers.

Incident With Terrorist

O'Neil incapacitated and killed a terrorist on active duty U.S. Air Force and was cleared. He was stationed at Al Dhafra Air Station as a member of the 763rd Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron from May 1999 to September 1999. 763rd EARS was a squadron in support of Operation Southern Watch. The terrorist O'Neil was confronted by was probably sponsored by Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The incident is at the Internet website TogetherWeServed under the squadron 11th SWS. The incident is in the records department of the Cape Cod Military Museum which is run by Joe Yukna. The incident was discussed on a July 4, 2025 episode of Fight News Unlimited at the 26th minute. O'Neil's incident with a terrorist is also discussed on the Amazon audiobook To Kill A Terrorist In Self Defense: The Matthew E. O'Neil Story.

Former Political Candidate

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 in his mid-twenties in their development office. He graduated from Colorado Christian University with a B.S. in 2001 and from Regis University in 2004 with a M.B.A. He was employed with Northfield Leads Inc. for forty three months finishing with agency acquisition for Nationwide Insurance in 2017 and 2018. O'Neil's bioloigical son Daniel Marshall was born in December 2000 and lives in Toronto, Canada.

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.