OLIVARES, RUBÉN EL PÚAS

(1947 - )

professional bantamweight boxer - a three-time world champion, with 78 knockouts among his 88 victories - whose career spanned the years 1964-80 (he had three additional bouts between 1981-88). Olivares appeared in a number of movies of the 1970s and 1980s more or less as himself, a good-natured, working-class fellow. Gained an extra measure of fame when Ricardo Garibay wrote his best-selling biography, "Las glorias del gran Púas," which was then made into a film with Olivares playing himself.