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Fred Galiana, European champion

Quintanar de la Orden, La Mancha de Toledo, Toledo

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Fred Galiana, European champion

Curiosity · Quintanar de la Orden, La Mancha de Toledo, Toledo

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The boxer Fred Galiana, whose real name was Exuperancio Díaz Galiana, was born in Quintanar de la Orden (La Mancha de Toledo) in 1931. He was proclaimed European featherweight champion in consecutive years, 1955 and 1956, one of the great figures of Spanish boxing in the 1950s.

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