Morante de la Puebla will not reappear at the Malaga Fair

Morante de la Puebla, injured last 10th in the arena of Pontevedra, will not reappear this Wednesday in the penultimate evening of the Málaga Fair as expected and postpones his definitive decision without a specific return date.

The decision was made after considering the physical condition of Morante, who tested himself against the fierce bulls on his farm La Malvaloca, in Las Cabezas de San Juan (Seville), without achieving the expected results.

The Sevillian bullfighter will be replaced in this Wednesday's bullfight lineup by matador Daniel Luque, sources from La Malagueta reported. The bullfighter from La Puebla, who had already missed his first commitment at La Malagueta being replaced by Diego Urdiales, was supposed to share the lineup with Alejandro Talavante and Juan Ortega to dispatch a bullfight from Puerto de San Lorenzo.

The recovery from the injury suffered in the Galician arena, to which must be added the aftermath suffered earlier in Marbella, is far from complete, so the cigarrero matador will not step into a bullring at least for the entire week.

Still within the month of August, the next event on Morante's schedule is next Friday in Bilbao although it seems unlikely that he will be able to fulfill this commitment, and on Saturday he should perform in Cieza (Murcia). He also has another commitment the following day in Toro (Zamora).

On the 25th, he is scheduled to appear in Almagro (Ciudad Real) and on the 26th he must enter the ring in Cuenca; on the 28th he leads the star lineup of the Virgen del Mar fair in Almería with Fortes and Juan Ortega but he still must be on the 29th in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) and on the 30th in Linares (Jaén) - the arena where he was involved in the controversial walkout with Manzanares that preceded the definitive cut of the last season - and finally on the 31st in San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid).

The busy schedule of the bullfighter extends into September including the arenas of Seville and Las Ventas where he will perform a historic double event, in the morning for the benefit of the monument to Antoñete which he himself has promoted and in the afternoon in the traditional bullfight of the day of Hispanidad that will close the Madrid season.

The bullfighter from La Puebla was caught in Pontevedra by the first bull from Garcigrande suffering a thigh wound with two trajectories of 10 and 6 centimeters in length that was deemed "serious" according to the medical team's report at the arena, which decided to transfer the injured to the hospital for surgery.