Mystery Boxer :Is this Jose "Pipino" Cuevas ? (1980)

[Caractacus]

saw this really bizarre (1980)movie on TV the other week.
and for just one split second when I saw this. and thought to myself ,
Did I just see Pipino Cuevas from behind the door at 52:15 of this clip ?
( if it is, he is not credited for it at IMDB, so was just wondering what y'all may have thought

[Bob]

Looks more like Armando Muniz to me...

[Caractacus]

could be but
looks to me like it may be Pipino Cuevas
who was the welterweight champion then.
they probably would have wanted someone famous for the gag as an 'in-joke".

[scartissue]

Definitely more Muniz than Cuevas. I'll ask Mando next time I talk to him.

[Caractacus]

another mystery is why Sugar Ray Leonard does not mention Armando Muniz
in his 2011 autobiography.
even though Muniz came close to defeating welterweight champion Jose Napoles
for the title and also fought Carlos Palimino in 2 hard fights too.
that had to have been a stepping stone fight for Leonard,
so why didnt he aknowglede it ?

[Caractacus]

Armando Muniz is in this episode of Taxi, so he had to have had a SAG card anyway.
( he can bee seen beginning at 7:00 of this clip )
-1979-

[AntonioMartin]

It fits the mold for both. But based on what Mando wore on the SRL fight clip, Id say its Mando.

[goose 5]

Muniz, for certain.

[Caractacus]

[Caractacus]

btw anyone here know whom that may be behind the door at approx. 1:07:25 of this clip ?
The film is THE BATTLING BUTLER (released August 1926)
I thought it kinds look like Harry Greb (?)