Juli continues to accumulate wins in the last stretch of his career. If on Friday he went out on shoulders at the fair Albacete next to Roca Rey, this Sunday he did it with Tomás Rufo in his farewell to Nimes. And today, Monday, he was awarded the trophy for the Best Work of the Albacete cycle.
El Callejón restaurantwhich annually awards the trophy for the Best Bullfight at the Albacete Fair, the dean’s prize, has decided that in this year 2023, the winner of the award is the bullfighter Julián López “El Juli”, for the bullfight carried out on Friday the 15th of September, to the bull “Adrián”, from the Jandilla ranch, shod with number 50, weighing 509 kilos, born in December 2018, with black mulatto hair and in very good condition, with caste and nobility, that is, Bravo.
It so happens that this performance was the last afternoon of El Juli.” at the Albacete Fair, after 25 years as a bullfighter, when he said goodbye to the ranks of bullfighters in this same plaza, cutting off four ears from a running of the bulls by Daniel Ruiz, a cattle ranch with which he was advertised this year, although he opened the plaza this year. Jandilla bull, when the shipment was patched. This time he came out on his shoulders by cutting another ear from the room. He shared the bill with Paco Ureña (one ear) and Roca Rey (two ears).