Coliseo Ruben Rodriguez, Bayamon, Puerto Rico - Danny Garcia (28-0, 16KOs) had a tough outing, but banked enough rounds to win a twelve round majority decision over Mauricio Herrera (20-4, 7KOs) to retain the WBC/WBA junior welterweight titles. The scores were 114-114 a draw, 116-112, 116-112.
Garcia started off by coming forward and trying to walk Herrera down. He landed a few shots on Herrera, but nothing that appeared to hurt him. Herrera was targeting the body of Garcia in the second and absorbed some counters well on the head. Herrera tried to make it more of a slugfest in the next two rounds and used defense to get away from many of Garcia's big shots.
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Garcia started off by coming forward and trying to walk Herrera down. He landed a few shots on Herrera, but nothing that appeared to hurt him. Herrera was targeting the body of Garcia in the second and absorbed some counters well on the head. Herrera tried to make it more of a slugfest in the next two rounds and used defense to get away from many of Garcia's big shots.
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