Bulls: Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez, media bullfighter, ends a cushty and irregular race within the ring | Culture | EUROtoday

Cayetano Rivera Ordonez (Madrid, 48 years previous), 19 of them as a bullfighter; Son, grandson, nice -grandson and brother of bullfighters, the final hyperlink of a really prestigious bullfighting dynasty, has introduced that he leaves the ring.

And he has carried out it in a laconic means, with the phrase “end” (a wink, maybe, to his movie studios) on the social community X after leaving on Saturday of the Sevillian sq. of Écija.

It closes, at the least for the second, the story of a lineage wearing lights that started his nice -grandfather Cayetano Ordóñez, his grandfather Antonio Ordoñez, his father, Paquirri continued; His brother Francisco continued and he culminates now. 100 years in the past the creator of the dynasty took the choice in Seville from Juan Belmonte, and 20 because the bullfighter who now says goodbye says he debuted as a novillero within the Plaza de Ronda, information that stunned then for the age of the applicant, 28 years previous, and stuffed with expectations to the center press.

Cayetano leaves and won’t be missed within the area. His has been a decent profession (worthy of the best recognition is anybody who attire in lights), however designed from a consolation zone that everybody who goals of being a determine already would love. Very comfy since its inception as novillero and elitista as a matador, at all times with the amparo and the utmost help of Curro Vázquez, husband of Pati Dominguín, cousin of Carmen Ordóñez, mom of Cayetano; Irregular has additionally been the trajectory of a spoiled, passionate, vehement, impetuous and lover of the controversy inside and outdoors the sunshine swimsuit, which has not reached the vitola of determine as a result of there was no spoken situations for it and has by no means made the soar required to realize such anxious recognition.

It is true, nevertheless, that Cayetano has not had the farewell that each bullfighter deserves. The 2025 season started with few contracts on the agenda, it was not introduced at vital gala’s (it’s unknown if by their very own choice) slightly than in April of Seville, and that afternoon he had no luck with the bulls of El Parralejo.

Then, in July he suffered an damage to a tentter and couldn’t go to Santander, Ciudad Real and Malaga; And if that weren’t sufficient, a number of days earlier than, on June 29, he had starred in an altercation in a hamburger in Madrid’s Calle Atocha that motivated these answerable for the premises to note the police. Apparently, Rivera Ordóñez maintained a difficult angle with the representatives of the authority, to the purpose that they have been pressured to place the wives and switch it to the Center Police Station, the place the evening spent. The matter is pending judgment.

Anyway, that for one or different circumstances, Cayetano’s farewell has not been dreamed by whoever attire in lights. The non -bullfighting chroniclers say goodbye in solitude, with the one firm of his son, who had in frequent with the mannequin and tv presenter Eva González. What they do not say is that it has been in a 3rd place, in silence, with none gratitude …

Anyway, it’s not the primary time that Cayetano Rivera pronounces that he retires from the ring. He already did it in 2012, in 2024 and in December of that very same yr he predicted that he would definitively accomplish that in 2025, on the event of the centenary of the start of the household dynasty.

But who’s Cayetano Rivera Ordonez?

Maybe, a sufferer of his personal story.

It was standard from the cradle, son of a well-known bullfighter, Francisco Rivera, Paquirriand Carmina Ordóñez, most reference of Antonio’s social life and daughter, one of many nice bullfighters in historical past.

In October 2001 he married Blanca Romero, studied cinema within the United States and, in opposition to all prognosis, introduced his debut wearing lights on March 26, 2005 within the Plaza de Ronda, a city the place his household proceeds.

He concurrently might dedicate his dedication to nothing simple to bullfighter along with his standing because the protagonist of the nationwide gossip, and his private attractiveness additionally allowed him to be a determine (this time, sure) as a high fashion mannequin. Became Armani manwhich allowed him to do the stroll with unique designs of the Italian artist and look Palmito within the ads of the stops of city buses.

Who is aware of if that dedication, so removed from the bull, and its personal character, typically impetuous and susceptible to the controversy, have been capable of affect that their profession has not reached the specified purpose.

Although his matador years have handed amongst cottons and with improper calls for of his class (for one thing he should serve to be so standard), Cayetano Rivera has been a courageous bullfighter, very punished by the bulls and at all times decided to go away the title of his household excessive.

Cayetano deserved a hotter farewell; Like each hero who attire in lights …