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The Plaza de toros México, situated in Mexico City, is the world's largest bullring.The 41,262-seat [1] facility is usually dedicated to bullfighting, but many boxing matches have been held there as well, including Julio César Chávez's third and final bout with Frankie Randall on May 22, 2004. [2]
More recent statistics show that popularity is declining in Spain, as only 1.9% of the surveyed population attended a corrida in 2021-22. [ 44 ] 1,546 bullfights took place in Spain in 2022. [ 45 ] Compared to the 3,651 bullfights that took place in 2007, a 57.7% decrease over the past 15 years suggests the events’ decline in popularity.
Bull-leaping: Fresco from Knossos, Crete. Bullfighting traces its roots to prehistoric bull worship and sacrifice in Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean region. The first recorded bullfight may be the Epic of Gilgamesh, which describes a scene in which Gilgamesh and Enkidu fought and killed the Bull of Heaven ("The Bull seemed indestructible, for hours they fought, till Gilgamesh dancing in ...
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With protesters outside a full arena, bullfights resumed in Mexico City on Sunday after the country’s highest court temporarily revoked a local ruling that sided with animal rights defenders and ...
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Animal rights defenders in Mexico City on Sunday marched to protest the return of the centuries-old spectacle of bullfighting to the capital after almost two years. "Torture is not art, it is not ...
Mexico’s Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a 2022 ban on bullfighting in Mexico City, opening the way for events to resume. A panel of five justices voted to overturn a May 2022 injunction ...