From Arrío to Limón. Arrecío, from Francisco Gallardo’s iron, was his first bull; Limón, by Jorge Díaz, the last one. From the celebration of his alternative ceremony in Madrid on September 29, 1887 – Vázquez’s owner was rendered useless – to his ‘farewell’ on October 15, 1899 in Zaragoza. “I’m not leaving the bulls, they’re kicking me out,” Rafael Guerra ‘Guerrita’ would leave as a lapidary phrase to the men of his gang. Circumstances prevailed. He asked that the blood not be cleaned from the rapier and asked for the bull’s head, which surprised his trusted people. Gathered at night at the inn, he told them the news: he was leaving the bullrings. «I want to tell you that this is over. Manué, go to the telegraph right now and put this telegram, one to Dolores, my wife, and another to my friend Pepe Bilbao: ‘I’m going to read it, it says like this: ‘Tomorrow at ‘dose’ in Córdoba I’ll cut my hair. pigtail’”, recalls Alfredo Asensi in ‘Caliphas of Córdoba’ and collected in ‘The Ladder of Success’. And in an intimate way, with his family, the ceremony was celebrated on October 17 (he arrived in his city that morning after resting the night before at the house of a friend in Madrid), between tears and joy. And a lot of nostalgia, with more ponytail cuts, like that of his brother Antonio, who gave the scissors to his mother. On the other end of the phone, Asensi, the great Guerrita scholar, tells us more about the bullfighter: «Due to his impulsive character, he has shown that he has also been an impulsive skill in the ring and in the relationship he had with other companions of the time. . He brought firmness, honesty and especially power to dominate and tame the bull. He not only wanted to fight brave bulls or the best bulls; Once he was really angry because he wanted to kill the biggest bull. “It had immense value.” He regrets “not having seen him bullfight, but from everything I have documented, because of how they put him through the roof, he was a key figure in the history of bullfighting, with a vital sword.” And the tension arrived, but not everything was afternoons of wine and roses, and that final season of the 19th century the teeth of those who rebuked him were sharpened. There was another phrase for posterity after performing in Madrid on June 11, 1899: “I no longer bullfight in Madrid or for the benefit of María Santísima.” The atmosphere against Guerrita was very tense then, especially after his picador sank half a rod into a Cámara bull on April 16. «Oranges rained around the sword, bottles fell around it, the shouting was deafening, the whistles thundered in the ears; the insults, the dicteries, poured in fierce, depressing, vicious,” said Bachelor González de Ribera (with a b according to the Royal Academy). All of this led to his withdrawal. Hence the question to his people: don’t you see him afternoon after afternoon? It was not a question, but a statement. Standard Related News No El Juli, the bullfighter who inspired ‘Muñeca de trapo’, one of the most famous songs from Van Gogh’s La Oreja Rosario Pérez Pablo Benegas is a friend of the Madrid figure, whom he accompanied on his farewell to the bullrings in la Maestranza«Guerrita’s bullfighting history was a constant struggle between an indomitable character and an audience that was not resigned to not seeing him humiliated and condescended. Apparently, in this fight, the public won, but in reality the triumph was the sword. He abandoned bullfighting, facing the indignation of the masses with the same fortitude and dignity with which he endured the first censures when he separated from Fernando el Gallo,” say the pages of ‘El Cossío’. And it is added in the Los Toros treatise: «The bullfighter, full of consideration and enjoying a very comfortable economic position, continued living in Córdoba, while the public and the party lost an exceptional bullfighter, to whom to find a point of similarity we would have to go back. to Pedro Romero or Montes or later to Joselito el Gallo. Fernando Claramunt, in his ‘History of the Art of Bullfighting’, said: «Elevated by the people of Córdoba to the category of Caliph of Córdoba, Guerrita was compared with Lagartijo and with Paquiro, whose qualities he summarizes, being better with the sword than the two. legendary teachers. Because he was a long and complete bullfighter, he suffered the inconveniences common to right-handed bullfighters of that cut. Guerrita, who was also nicknamed Llaverito and El Airoso, was the son of Juana Bejarano and José Guerra, janitor of the Matadero Viejo. He came into the world on March 6, 1862, during the reign of Elizabeth II. His aunt was the widow of Pepete, who died in the miura Jocinero’s horns the same year Rafael was born. One bullfighter died, another was born. One of the greatest in the history of bullfighting, a bullfighter who pontificated with his words, especially after his retirement. «In my case, I have been the Pope»An example: it is said that in a hunt that he shared with Alfonso XIII, he told him that he would have liked to have met him during his active period. To which El Guerra responded: “Well, having been born before, Majesta.” Before, Alfonso XIII told him that he had confused him with a bishop: What a bishop, what the hell! In mine, I have been the Pope!” Giraldillo wrote in ABC that with Rafael bullfighting was divided into two eras. «It understands and penetrates and, perhaps, anticipates the taste of current audiences. He commands the bull in the bullring and even before the bull reaches it, but what manliness and what extreme zeal in all of Rafael’s professional acts! With straight lines he divides the history of bullfighting. After him, only Joselito and Belmonte, but they already benefit from Guerrita’s experiences and reap the best fruit from them. The fight is definitely on track.” Fight over the biggest bull of the meadows The chronicles say that his great season was that of 1894. In the plaza of Madrid in April he signed ten extolled natural passes for Farolero. But the best came on May 14: «The largest bull that has been seen in the meadows appears in the section, Cocinero, by Don Félix Gómez. Espartero and Guerra fought over him, they both want to deal with him and, in the end, it falls to Rafael. And his feat with that enormous bull from Miura that dies at his feet, while the matador sits in the stirrup in front of his face, and the one he repeats with Fogonero, from Adalid, bullfighting barefoot in the middle of a deluge, without wanting to be suspend the bullfight.” Giraldillo closed: “From his life, rich in anecdotes and witticisms, remains his lesson in good sense, the same one that led him to organize the fight, preparing a necessary transition between two eras of bullfighting. And, when he leaves active life, he continues for years and years, projecting his influence on the Festival that he magnified, with advice, with judgment. “”After me, no one” Rafael Guerra died in his native Córdoba on February 21 1941. It was seven thirty-four minutes in the afternoon. Black suit, short jacket, white shirt and black buttons. That’s how I had it arranged and that’s how it was shrouded. This master of the mill died in Córdoba after asking his son how the work on his farm ‘El Patriarca’ was going. As soon as the sad news was known, Club Guerrita closed its doors. «After me, no one… After no one, Fuentes», remained as a sentence at the end of the 19th century. And already in the 20th century, when Joselito died, he pronounced “the bulls are over.” The Festival continues and with it the memory of its legends.
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