Autumn Fair: Roca Rey takes a risk and falls seriously injured | Culture

The world championship was set in the Plaza de Las Ventas when the second of the afternoon, fierce, focused and demanding, turned Roca Rey in a very bad way at the beginning of a chest pass. After lifting him by the buttocks, the bullfighter fell headlong into the sand, and there the bull hooked him by the jacket and shook him with extreme violence on two occasions until Roca was left limp and staring into space.

The brutal and horrifying fight was not what caused a strong dispute on the lines, but rather the intransigent attitude of the higher-ups on line 7 who did not stop criticizing the positioning of the bullfighter from the beginning of the task. The majority of the square blamed them for the accident, and while Roca Rey was attended to by his teammates, the booing was monumental.

Certainly, the amateur critics were not right. No. Roca Rey can be accused of many defects, but this Sunday he was in good shape for the short time he was in the ring. He came to really risk it against a very demanding, fierce, tempered and determined bull, who sold his life very dearly. Kneeling between the lines of the third, Roca began the muleta task, and before making several right hands, he passed to the bull in a very tight pass changed from behind. Already upright, he overcame his opponent’s difficulties with courage, good positioning and the attitude of a thorough bullfighter, always crossed, very serious in the face of the bull. In this way, amid the protests of the dissatisfied, he drew several batches with his right hand and only one with his left hand, very tight, long and meritorious. After the tumble, and the shouts of ‘out, out’ directed at the intransigent, the battered bullfighter once again summoned his opponent, which unleashed passion in the stands. He failed at the time of killing, the president was wrong to send him the second warning before the regulation three minutes were up, and the request for an ear, motivated by the shock experienced, was the majority. Roca Rey did not carry the trophy and headed to the infirmary on his own two feet.

But he wasn’t the only one who was hit. Víctor Hernández was knocked over when he was trying to start some bernadinas on his first bull, and the junior Diego Valladar lost his footing at the exit of a couple of banderillas in the fifth and suffered a tremendous beating without further consequences.

Hernández entered the poster as a reward for having been the winner of the Chenel Cup and has not disappointed anyone. He has the manners of an artistic bullfighter, and this he demonstrated before his noble and dull first in several rounds of clean and tempered right blows and a trencherillas with his left hand at idle. It was not a perfect task, but it was evidence of the good taste of a bullfighter with a future. He really tried in his second, with the illusion of the Puerta Grande in his head, but that was the end of the bull’s left horn in a terrifying defeat, and the task went no further.

Ureña killed three bulls, solvent, neat and dull in his first, a standing animal that went out very soon; He drew brilliant bursts in the fourth, especially by natural ones, always well placed before a bull that punctuated the deception, and he limited himself to machete in the face of the lackluster sixth, who fought in place of the wounded bullfighter.