Borja hits very hard – Yucatan Diary

The bullfighter who triumphed at San Isidro wants to be noticed by those who organise the big fairs and don’t let him get on the posters.

Now he has added a triumph as great as the one in Madrid: he cut three ears on the first afternoon of the Corridas Generales de Bilbao.

Yesterday, Borja Jiménez achieved a consecrating performance in the Bibio ring, with forcefulness, in a mano a mano with Daniel Luque, from which the former left on shoulders through the main door.

The weight that Borja has given to his season is very great. Yesterday he went to bend his knees three times in front of the gate of the pens. His particular seal.

The Fuente Ymbro bullfight had a bull of excellent bravery as a finishing touch. Chestnut, with profile, showing the shoulders, narrow temples, with a neck… A bull that charged from the hindquarters, with the commitment that the rest of the bullfight lacked, with the class to seek the flights of the muleta with the inside horn. A bullfight that began vertically with the right horn, but that blossomed naturally. Without an established script in them: some more vertical, others with a more open rhythm. But all with the weapon of composure, the curved stroke and the finish behind the hip. Several with cadence raised the bullfight to the border of the two ears and the winner of San Isidro, on the verge of being the winner of Bilbao. However, he missed with the steel at the first attempt and the sword was detached at the second. A third ear opened the Puerta Grande for him, after one in the first and another in the second. He is already waiting for more bullfights.

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