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Cocky Art Aragon grabbed the split decision before 10,400 fans who paid $47,833 gross to witness the non-title match. Referee Abe Roth gave Aragon the decision by six points, Judge Mushy Callahan the local boy by eight, while Judge Joe Stone voted for the champion by two points. The defeat, 10th in 69 fights for Carter, came as a surprise to many of the ringsiders who had installed him as the favorite. Aragon caught fire when he saw blood streaming from Carter's left eyebrow as the eighth round got under way. It had been opened in the last minute of the previous round. Referee Roth said it was a clean left hook but Carter claimed he was butted. In any event, Aragon turned tiger in the eighth and ninth and apparently caught the eye of the officials.