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  2. Spanish-style bullfighting - Wikipedia

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    The history of female bullfighters participating in Spanish-style bullfighting has been traced to the sport's earliest renditions, namely during the late-1700s and early 1800s. Francisco Goya , an 18th-century Spanish painter, first depicted a female bullfighter in his work La Pajuelera , which featured a woman sparring with a bull on horseback ...

  3. Francisco Romero (bullfighter) - Wikipedia

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    Francisco Romero (1700–1763) was a significant Spanish matador.He reputedly introduced the famous red cape into bullfighting in around 1726.[1] [2]He was apparently the inventor of several characteristics that started to be used in a key period for bullfighting when the modern on foot system was defined, as the use of the muleta (cape) and estoque (sword) to kill the bull face to face, thus ...

  4. Spanish Fighting Bull - Wikipedia

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    A Spanish Fighting Bull in Seville in April 2009. The Spanish Fighting Bull (Toro Bravo, toro de lidia, toro lidiado, ganado bravo, Touro de Lide) is an Iberian heterogeneous cattle (Bos taurus) population. [1] It is exclusively bred free-range on extensive estates in Spain, Portugal, France and Latin American countries where bullfighting is

  5. El Cordobés - Wikipedia

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    On May 20, 1964, when he made his first appearance at Las Ventas in Madrid, the bullfight ended with the near-fatal goring of El Cordobés on the horns of the bull Impulsivo. Twenty-two days later El Cordobés fought again. [3] By the time of his first retirement, in 1971, El Cordobés had become the highest-paid matador in history.

  6. Rodolfo Gaona - Wikipedia

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    Rodolfo Gaona y Jiménez (22 January 1888 – 20 May 1975), was a Mexican bullfighter who performed from 1905 until his retirement in 1925, primarily in Madrid. [1] [2] [3] Known as El Indio Grande (The Big Indian) and La Califa de León (The Caliph of León), Gaona was part of the Golden Age of bullfighting in Spain [3] alongside Juan Belmonte and Joselito. [4]

  7. Andrés Vázquez (bullfighter) - Wikipedia

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    The most significant years of Vázquez's bullfighting life were bound with the birth of Victorino Martín Andrés's bull ranch, and a highlight of which was his bullfight on 10 August 1969, in which he was substituting for Antoñete, when he cut both ears from the famous bull Baratero, which heightened his status as a bullfighter. It led to his ...

  8. Manolete - Wikipedia

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    Manolete's contribution to bullfighting included being able to stand very still while the bull passed close to his body and, rather than giving the passes separately, remaining in one spot and linking four or five consecutive passes into a compact series.

  9. Pedro Romero - Wikipedia

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    Pedro Romero Martínez (19 November 1754 – 10 February 1839) was a bullfighter from the Romero family in Ronda, Spain.. His grandfather Francisco is credited with advancing the art of using the muleta; his father and two brothers were also toreros.