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"Will the real Alfonso Aguirre please stand up. . .if he can? Alfonso Aguirre, according to a story out of Oklahoma City, was knocked out by Tony McMinn Tuesday might in the second round of a middleweight boxing match. But just 24 hours earlier, middleweight [[Tony Chiaverini]] also knocked out an Alfonso Aguirre during the third round of a bout in Topeka. Is Aguirre merely a glutton for punishment, a straight-A student in the school of hard knocks? Or were there two different fighters in Topeka and Oklahoma City on those nights?

Everyone seems to agree that Aguirre was kayoed by Chiaverini, an upcoming fighter from Shawnee, Kan. A year ago Chiaverini knocked out Alfonso's brother, Raoul. "I know Alfonso and I know Raoul," , said Peyton Sher, Chiaverini's manager. "I've seen them fight before. I know who Tony fought. He fought Alfonso Aguirre."

Blackie Ramon, who manages both of the Aguirres. out of San Antonio, says McMinn sent Raoul to the mat. "Raoul fought in Oklahoma City last (Tuesday) night," Ramon muttered after being awakened by a reporter's telephone call. "You got me out of the sack for that?"

But Alfonso was billed as McMinn's opponent and Pat O'Grady, the Oklahoma City fight promoter, says that's who it was. "He's fought here before. We've always known him as Alfonso," he claimed. And David St. Mary, sports editor of the : San Antonio News, says sources have confirmed that Alfonso fought both nights. Then there is this weighty evidence: Sher believes Raoul checks in at less than 150 pounds, while the two fighters in Oklahoma City weighed 161 and 159. But Sher says Chiaverini left a cut above Alfonso's eye, and O'Grady claims both fighters in Oklahoma City were examined before that bout and declared fit to fight.

Both Kansas and Oklahoma have a rule prohibiting boxers from fighting within 30 days of being knocked out. O'Grady insisted that he obeyed the 30-day wait rule, but he did not appear to be too upset that Alfonso may have fought two straight nights. "He fought in Topeka, huh?" O'Grady asked. "Why, he's a busy young man." The promoter said he had not talked to Alfonso -- but with good reason. "He can't speak English," O'Grady said." - The Lawton Constitution, 4 August 1977

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