Francisco Ruiz Miguel is a Spanish matador born on March 4, 1949 in San Fernando, Cadiz. Took the alternativa in Barcelona on April 27, 1969, at the hands of Jose Fuentes and Manolo Vazquez. Confirmed in Madrid on May 15, 1970, by Andrés Hernando and Juan Jose Garcia Corral, Osborne bulls. He was one of the few fighters to cut the tail in the Maestranza in Seville. Has been carried through the Puerto Grande of Las Ventas on ten occasions. He is married to Lola Alvarez Briales with whom he has had two children and resides in Algeciras.
