The bullfighter Morante de la Puebla has made the decision to interrupt the season after relapsing into his psychiatric problems, with no return date but not definitively, and will not be able to perform on Sunday in the Madrid Charity bullfight, in the that was announced.
Morante de la Puebla appears on the poster for the Pamplona Bull Fair on July 12 along with Cayetano Ribera and Roca Rey.
The news has been confirmed with the statements of Pedro Marques, the Cigar Killer’s representative, who assures that Morante lives “in deep sadness”, “does not respond to antidepressants” and, furthermore, “his legs fail him and he is left feeling helpless.” force”.
The manager and the matador regret this situation and the problems caused to the companies and fans but, as Marques explains, “it is a matter of force majeure and the important thing is José Antonio’s health and returning to the ring when he is able to do so.” .
Morante had already been forced to cut briefly before facing the Easter Sunday event in Seville after starting his season and rumors began to spread about the extent of the psychiatric illness that he has had for more than two decades.
The alarm bells in the bullfighting world were already going off since Morante appeared on February 9 at the Alfonso
It did not take long for it to emerge that he had experienced a worsening of his psychiatric illness, a bipolar disorder, which forced him to temporarily retire in 2004. These mental health problems forced him to go to Miami, where he was treated almost twenty years ago.
These comings and goings follow those of last year. After reaching the peak of his life by cutting off the tail of Domingo Hernández’s bull at the April Fair, he ended up experiencing a real ordeal due to the wrist injury that he had suffered since June 24 in Badajoz.
That day, he also suffered a rib fracture that forced him to take a first break. He had to wait until July 1st to reappear in the Plaza de Zamora and two days later, fighting in the Portuguese ring of Vila Franca de Xira, he suffered a new seizure that aggravated the damage.
The right-hander was diagnosed with a rupture of triangular fibrocartilage and an injury to the scapholunate ligament and, although he forced a first and fleeting reappearance in San Fermín, on July 11, he had to stop again, losing several dates.
It reappeared on August 11 of last year at the Huesca fair, although from that moment on the 2023 season became a coming and going before making the decision to cut it off permanently after performing in the first commitment it had made at the Fair. of San Miguel.
