Jose Antonio Aguirre emerged as the winner of the battle of former minimumweight champions tonight at the Plaza Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. His opponent, Kermin Guardia certainly had his moments in the fight, most notably when he had Aguirre down on the canvas in the eighth round. Aguirre had to show some courage to survive Guardia's attempts to finish him off and it wa sa real struggle between the two that ended with a final tally that had Aguirre winning a razor thin split decision. the final scores read 96-93 for Guardia and tw judges cards read 95-94 for Aguirre. So Aguirre gets the win by the skin of his teeth and moves his record to thirty-three wins with two losses and a draw while Guardia drops to thirty-five wins and four losses.
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