Manuel Escribano conquers the Alicante Plaza with a superb performance. Borja Jiménez could not share the triumph due to his inefficiency with the steels. The bullfight of Victorino Martín was varied, serious, and of great interest.

The Hogueras Fair 2024 said goodbye with the attraction of the bull. The Victorino Martín ranch returned after the success of the previous year and did not disappoint. A well-presented enclosure with variety in its behavior, very interesting. An excellent bull stood out, the third, and another very good one, the fifth. Interest waned with the fourth, which was injured. The bullfight served to pay tribute to the Hogueras Festival and the Bellea del Foc, Alba Muñoz, presided over the event.

In the face of the serious albaserradas, Manuel Escribano became the protagonist of the afternoon. With the fifth, a good but demanding bull, the bullfighter from Gerena demonstrated extraordinary natural bullfighting, with the muleta dragged. He was caught by the bull while bullfighting with the right, miraculously escaping the goring, and returned to face the Victorino without looking at himself, to get into position and achieve the thrust of the fair. The box inexplicably denied him the second ear and granted the bull a lap of honor. He took two acclaimed laps of the ring.

Escribano, with a second uncertain and complicated bull, was very good with the left, always looking for a way to deal with a bull that did not fully surrender. Thrust and ear. He placed the banderillas with astonishing ease in both turns. Manuel maintains his intact romance with a square in which he almost lost his life, in which he has reaped numerous successes and which always receives him with much affection.

Borja Jiménez did not accompany his countryman on shoulders because he failed with the third, a bull that humiliated and transmitted in his charge. He received it very well with the cape, and he made a performance from less to more in which the natural bullfighting was the most outstanding. Great level of the bullfighter from Espartinas. With the sixth, a large bull, brave in rods and that only moved when it was very involved in the muleta, he knew how to lose steps to get passes that reached the public. This one he killed well and walked a trophy that rewarded his afternoon.

Rafaelillo headed the poster. He got the lot with fewer options. To the serious first, whom he received with grace and bullfighting, he was dominating it with the muleta to end up bullfighting it better naturally than with the right hand. He was not successful with the sword and everything was left in an ovation. With the fourth, injured in the third of rods and that was not returned by the box, the showing was impossible.