After the successful defense match of the WBA Asian Championship Minimum in November 2002, Le Huu Toan continued to play a professional boxing competition. This time, the boxer born in 1993 had the first time to protect the belt at home. His opponent is Garen Diagan, Filipino boxer in the top 20 world.
Compared to Le Huu Toan, Garen Diagan was better in many aspects such as height, arms, and competition experience. It can be said that the Philippine boxer is the biggest opponent that Le Huu Toan has encountered ever. As expected, Diagan has caused many difficulties for Le Huu Toan.
Taking advantage of bodybuilding advantages, Garan Diagan uses long -range fighting when entering the match against the WBA Asian champion. The Philippine boxer also proved somewhat overwhelming when avoiding the punching combos from Le Huu Toan, and immediately approached the counterattack. In such a situation, Diagan hit Le Huu Toan eyelid.
Before the heavy blow from Diagan, one eye Le Huu Toan was bruised, his eyelids were torn. But in the context of face injuries, Vietnamese boxers still compete. The disadvantage in the first minutes was transformed into an advantage by Le Huu Toan. He tried to close, trying to put the opponent into the corner of the radio to the blow.
The advantage of physical fitness was shown more and more clearly in the next half of the match. He constantly tried to put Diagan into the corner of the ring to limit the ability to avoid the opponent, and tried to wear physical erosion with accurate and powerful combos.
Facing the strong attack power of Le Huu Toan, Diagan many times somewhat flinching. The class of Filipino boxers helped him escape some situations that could be knocked out by the knock-downs, and at the same time trying to counterattack in difficult moments. The match lasted until the 12th half to end, forcing the match to resolve the victory by calculating points.
At the end of the 12 rounds, the referees tried to win the final of Diagan with a score of 2-1. This match helps Diagan to become the holder of the WBA Asian championship of the Minimum weight class. Meanwhile, Le Huu Toan had to receive the first failure in his career.