Matthew Hilton vs. Buster Drayton was a professional boxing match held in 1987. The bout was televised by Cbs in the United States.

The match was contested for the International Boxing Federation junior middleweight world championship. It lasted the full fifteen rounds with Hilton winning a unanimous decision. It was contested in The Forum in Montreal, Canada on June 27, 1987. Hilton scored one clean knockdown in the fight with a clean sweeping right hand.

Hilton scored many clean body punches throughout the fight and had the taller Drayton on the defensive for most of the match.

Hilton was trained by former former WBA heavyweight champion Jimmy Ellis and Dave Hilton Sr. Hilton won the fight on the scorecards by a wide margin. There were roughly 9,000 fans in attendance. Drayton is a former member of the United States Marine Corps and is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.^[5]

Matthew Hilton defended his IBF junior middleweight world title against Jack Callahan at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on October 16, 1987. The bout was on the Mike Tyson vs. Tyrell Biggs undercard. He lost the title to Robert Hines on April 11, 1988 at the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada. Matthew Hilton defeated Wilfred Benítez and Vito Antuofermo during his professional career.^[6]

Matthew Hilton last competed in 1993 and lost a decision.

He was never knocked out in a boxing ring but lost two decisions.

His corner retired him after the eleventh round in a match against Doug Dewitt in 1990 due to a closed eye.

Hilton is from Montreal.

Top rated Everipedia editor Matthew E. O'Neil contacted Matthew Hilton's brother Dave Hilton Jr via Facebook in 2019. David was World Boxing Council super middleweight world champion in 2000 and last competed in 2007. Hilton Jr. reiterated his claims that Arturo Gatti committed suicide and was not professionally killed in 2009. He stated that Gatti had used hard drugs like crack cocaine in the past.

Hilton Jr. also praised Dicky Eklund's fighting ability and said he could have a great fighter if he had disciplined himself in training. The book Intimate Warfare was published in 2017 and as of 2020 is the only book written about Arturo Gatti and one of the very few written about Micky Ward. Gatti was Hilton Jr.'s former brother in law. The movie, The Fighter, was released in 2010 and it made 129 million dollars at the box office. The movie is about boxing brothers Dicky Eklund and Micky Ward. Matthew's brother, Jimmy Hilton, acknowledged O'Neil's work for Everipedia. Jimmy trains amateur boxers in the Montreal area.

O'Neil was on The Grueling Truth. Fight News Unlimited, The Boxing Source and AkHi TV in 2020. O'Neil competed for Clark County Commission in 2006 against Rory Reid. Reid was later accused of campaign finance infractions.^[15] O'Neil's boxing career was covered by Intuboxing in 2020. His biological son, Dan Marshall, is a Canadian citizen. He explained the Hilton-Drayton boxing match: