Rodolfo Rodríguez El Pana

Bullfighter Rodolfo Rodríguez El Pana

Birth date: On February 2, 1952 in Mexico.

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Alternativa: (Is a ceremony in which a bullfighter authorizes a novice to take his place among the doctorate bullfighters) On March 18, 1979 the alternative took in the Plaza Mexico

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A real personage of world of the bull was born one day as today on February 2, 1952 in Apizaco, in the State of Tlaxcala, Rodolfo Rodríguez " The Pana ", the Wizard of Apizaco already is a living legend, a romantic bullfighter, that Quito had the privilege of seeing it in the dishcloth of the Bullring Belmonte, it fell down of foot before the of Quito interest that submitted completely before the Mexican, who demonstrated his simplicity and human touch, agreeing to think photographies with fond all that it requested it, public inspector to the reputation that was preceding it entered to the square Belmonte a carriage thrown by horses followed with mariachis and went out in shoulders of the bullring, for the big door.

When he was three years old, his father died murdered. To help to his family it worked of baker. His nickname comes from this trade.

On March 18, 1979 the alternative took in the Plaza Mexico. It managed to fill it, thanks to the successes that he had harvested there as herdsman. From the beginning, his clashes with bullfighters and businessmen him closed many doors. In twenty-seven years only D. F has fought fourteen times in Mexico.

It has sixteen gores, ten of them in the legs. It has been in the jail in seven occasions. She is considered to be the inventor of a couple of banderillas to I fail and to a hand known as ' Calafia's couple'.

Everything changed when it appeared in the sanatorium where it was recovering, a bullfighting businessman. He asked for him and spoke to him without rodeos: " Prepare For Yourself, that in one month you say goodbye in the México ". Saying and fact. On Sunday, the 7th of January, the killing old man was returning from the province of the oblivion and was doing his last opening procession in the biggest square of the world.

Conscious of his legend, ' The Pana ' did not neglect the details of his farewell. It came in a maggot thrown by horses, illuminating a natural cue, to the nineteenth-century way. At four o'clock in the afternoon, it did the opening procession exaggerating the parsimony, smiling, with the cape of walk without tying and smoking a Havana cigar of warlike calibre. Thirty thousand persons were observing him.

What came later was a recital of histrionics adorned with drops of expensive bullfighting. On the sand, ' The Pana ' was entering and going out of an artistic improbable situation: it was moving as if his feet were weighing suddenly ten thousand kilos, was throwing the crutch after planning a trincherazo of cartel, was demanding to the band of music that he him was dedicating flowery reveilles and was connecting passes amazing moderated with trapazos of preventive nature. The result? The square mouth below. A prick and thrust. Delirium. Handkerchiefs. Tears. Olés. Two ears for ' The Pana '. Hats ill-mannered persons flying for the airs. The hero gives four returns to the turn and goes out to shoulders. To the instant the retreat remains deactivated. In the alley, his proxy meets surrounded with businessmen who want to speak business.

Genius and sudden figure of the bullfighting, during an alone evening ' The Pana ' has provoked a revolution another side of the Atlantic Ocean. Already he is waited in several countries of America, and this month it will return to the México. Also that does not move back because it does not want to forbid the young persons of the opportunity to see him to fight. " Today - he assures - the bullfighters are very 'light', since of plastic ". He is different. It is done of a pure, surrealistic and unforseeable material. Certainly, already types are not made as him. Now only he can only obtain the most difficult thing: to be kept at a height of his own personage.

To remember that the Genius and There appears Rodolfo Rodríguez " THE PANA " to fought only once in Spain, in his 34 years of alternative, it was in the season 2008 in Vistalegre with Morante of It Populates hand to hand.

 *Photo: Opinionytoros