Alfonso Enrique Ponce Martínez (born December 8, 1971) Chiva

Chiva

Chiva is a municipality in the comarca of Hoya de Buñol in the Valencian Community, Spain....

, Valencia

Valencia (province)

Valencia or València is a province of Spain, in the central part of the Valencian Community.It is bordered by the provinces of Alicante, Albacete, Cuenca, Teruel, Castellón, and the Mediterranean Sea...

, Spain, also known as Enrique Ponce, is a famous Spanish bullfighter.

Biography

He made his first public appearance on the August 10, 1986 in the Plaza De Toros in Baeza (Jaén).
Some of his early debut appearances were on March 9, 1988, in Castellon

Castellón de la Plana

Castellón de la Plana or Castelló de la Plana is the capital city of the province of Castelló, in the Valencian Community, Spain, in the east of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Costa del Azahar by the Mediterranean Sea...

 with Curro Trillo and Jose Luis Torres when he was a Novillero

Novillero

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He began in the Escuela Taurina de Valencia, until he went into the public in 1986 in Baeza.

He performed for 10 years and over 100 corridas

Bullfighting

Bullfighting is a traditional spectacle of Spain, Portugal, southern France and some Latin American countries , in which one or more bulls are baited in a bullring for sport and entertainment...

. Ponce is the first torero in history to fight more than 2000 corridas. He passed this mark in Ronda on September 4, 2010.

Career information

• His debut without picadors in Baeza
  Baeza
  Baeza is a town of approximately 16,200 inhabitants in Andalusia, Spain, in the province of Jaén, perched on a cliff in the Loma de Baeza, a mountain range between the river Guadalquivir on the south and its tributary the Guadalimar on the north. It is chiefly known today as having many of the...
  
  , Jaén province Spain.10 October 1986.
• His debut with picadors in Castellón de la Plana, Spain. 9 March 1988.
• Valencia, 1990 with Joselito and Litri.

See also

• List of bullfighters
• Bullfighting
  Bullfighting
  Bullfighting is a traditional spectacle of Spain, Portugal, southern France and some Latin American countries , in which one or more bulls are baited in a bullring for sport and entertainment...
  
  
• Torero