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Manuel Calvo Sr.
Spanish featherweight. Born 1942. Fought from 1964 to 1974. Record: 45-15-5 (23).
Defeated Nevio Carbi in December 1968 to claim vacant EBU featherweight title. (Calvo tko'd Lother Abend to get to the title match.) He lost the title on a fifteenth-round TKO to Tommaso Galli in August 1969. Calvo is the father and trainer of Manuel Calvo Jr. (Boxrec id #006706), who won the vacant EBU featherweight title by beating Steve Robinson in May 2001.
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David Myers
Houston, Texas
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