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Toreros

Ole!

About Me

This is a combined effort of varied people working together with the same password and interest to build a big bullfighting page in the English language. There is no ME, but there is US! Ole!

My Interests

Bullfighting, flamenco and pasodobles.

I'd like to meet:

All of the figuras, past and present, the novilleros who contibuted but never gained fame and the victims of the profession. Let us not forget the breeders of the brave bulls, for without them, there would be no bullfight.

Music:

Pasodobles

Movies:

Blood & Sand, The Brave Bulls, Arruza, Currito De La Cruz, The Magnificent Matador, Momento De Verdad, El Monosabio, Tarde De Toros, Arruza, Torero, and more.

Television:

Bullfights On TV and off of tape

Books:

Cossio's Los Toros, The Brave Bulls, Blood & Sand, Bullring, Play Me The Song Of Death, Death In The Afternoon, Gates Of Fear, La Fiesta Brava, Matador, Shadow Of A Bull, The Death Of Manolete, Or I'll Dress You In Mourning, Cornadas, How To Enjoy A Bullfight, How To Fight A Bull, Bulls & Bullfighting, This Is The Bullfight, Domnguin, The Keeper Of The Wild Bulls, In the Presence Of Death, The Innocent Villa, The Man With No Shadow, The Sun Also Rises, We Remember Carlos Arruza-Torero, Carlos Arruza-The Golden Years, When In Disgrace, A River Of Lions and many more.

Heroes:

Manolete, Granero, Calesero, Vallente Arellano, Ernesto Belmont, Juan Belmonte, gallo, gallito, Fernando Dos Santos, Mayuto, Minuto, Pena, Juli, Viti, Pepete, Ordonez, Nino De La Capea, Manzanares, Robles, Paco Camino, Bienvenida, Mendoza, Joselito Torres, Bernardo Valencia, Telles, Fabian Barba, Fabian Ruiz, Manolo Martinez, Curro Romero, Curro Rivera, Cordobes, Chilolo, Queretano, Raul Garcia, Alfredo Leal, Cesar & Curro Giron, Pepe Luis Vazquez, Angel Peralta, Fabrilo, Frascuelo, Lagartiho, Eloy Cavazos, Amaya, Nino De La Palma, Moreniro, Silverio Perez, the Armillitas, the Litris, Julio Aparicio, Miguelin, El Puno and many more.

My Blog

News

October 26 in Tijuana at the Monumental, Julio "Cordobes", Jose Mauricio and Pepe Hillo Novemver 2 in Mexicali , Eloy Cavazos , Rodrigo Santos and Alejandro Amaya. An interesting new yahoo group to be...
Posted by Toreros on Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:39:00 PST

News

The Mexican matador, Humberto Flores, to appear in Las Ventas in Madrid tomorrow. BKB Productions has finally revealed a tentative release date for Bullfight to be December 1, after over a year of del...
Posted by Toreros on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:09:00 PST

Bullfighting Groups On Yahoo

http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/bullfightinginportugal http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/bullsandbullfighting http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/vayatorero http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/toreroto...
Posted by Toreros on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:59:00 PST

Paco Pallares

In the 1960s, Paco Pallares of Salamanca, Spain was praised as an upcoming novillero of great worth. His glorious career, however, may have been hampered by a  goring in the neck that took place ...
Posted by Toreros on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:37:00 PST

News

Several runners were gored in Pamplona this year,  which is usually the case. In some big rings in Spain the  antitaurinos have been jumping into the rings between bulls and waving their stu...
Posted by Toreros on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:17:00 PST

News

Witht he growing number of jackasses out there creating antitaurino bullfight groups on My Space and on Spain, it is high time the aficionados started fighting back and opposed vocally, even  leg...
Posted by Toreros on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:56:00 PST

Matadores by Dale Pierce

Matadores by Dale Pierce, $24.95 from Floricanto Press, [email protected] is a new release covering the history of the Plaza Monumental bullring that was torn down in the border town of Ci...
Posted by Toreros on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:18:00 PST

News

Roca Rey of Peru is in Mexico and has gained considerable success. Ricardo Rivera of Colombia, not to be confused with the sons of Curro Rivera, is also seeing sumemrtime action in Mexico and has cont...
Posted by Toreros on Mon, 26 May 2008 04:40:00 PST

News

Par for the course as his history with other plazas, Jose Antonio Gonzalez "Chilolin" has already started to screw up in Tijuana with the cancelling and reorganizing of various corridas. if the disorg...
Posted by Toreros on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:58:00 PST

News

The Sevilla Feria de Abril is in full swing and we hope to have some photos from it for the gallery soon. Retired torero Rafael De Paula suffered a major heart attack some time ago, but is reportedly ...
Posted by Toreros on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:33:00 PST