Enrique Ponce


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

Biography

He made his first public appearance on 10 August 1986 in the Plaza De Toros in Baeza.
Some of his early debut appearances were on 9 March 1988, in Castellon with Curro Trillo and Jose Luis Torres when he was a Novillero.
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. Ponce is the first torero in history to fight more than 2000 corridas. He passed this mark in Ronda on 4 September 2010.

March 2014 goring

Whilst opening the Las Fallas festival in Valencia on 18 March 2014, by bullfighting a bull from the Victorinao del Río farm, he suffered a severe goring which broke his collarbone and several ribs. He was carried off the field by his assistant bullfighter Mariano de la Viña.

Career information

He got married on 25 October 1996 to Paloma Cuevas Díaz, which he describes as the biggest supporter in his life. In 2007 the couple made public they were going to have a daughter. She was born on 27 April 2008 and was named after her mother, Paloma. The couple gave birth to their secondborn on 9 January 2012, and she was named Bianca.
In 2020 the couple announced they were filling for divorce, and Enrique was seen around the same time with his current partner, Ana Soria, who is 26 years younger than him.