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Matthew Hilton: A Career Unfulfilled


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by Jim Amato

 

This was a young man that had world champion written all over him. He had all the potential in the world to have become a boxing superstar. He did achieve the status of world titleholder due to the fragmented title system of the day but I thought he would have accomplished so much more. Only…

 

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Good one. That whole family is riddled with tragedy...one of the brothers died in a car accident when he was very young, another was in jail for abusing his daughters sexually and the third (not Matthew) is a true troublemaker and goon. Matthew lives like a poor man today, as far as I know. It was in a documentary about the Hiltons. Anyway, Matthew was a natural talent, but he ruined his career drinking before fights. It runs in the family, his old man did the same but somehow he was able to fight well despite that. Yet their old man never achieved what Matthew achieved. Davey, the oldest son who was in jail for that sexual abuse, also briefly held the WBC super middle strap. But he lost it not long therafter when his daughters brought it out in the open.

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