Roca Rey, the year of the beast: its stratospheric 2022 season in numbers

• Inside the last afternoon of Morante's 100: "I have turned my back on the cult of fear"

When the summaries of the 2022 season are already due, and almost expired, once everyone has agreed on the continued success of Morante de la Puebla in his year of 100, it is convenient to focus on the numbers of the stratospheric season of King Rock.

The statistics.

demodeladoras, consolidate the leadership, at the box office and in the arena, of who not only

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Of all his triumphant afternoons -Valencia, Castellón, Seville, Madrid, Pamplona...-, the homeric feat of Bilbao's Semana Grande will remain in memory, when RR crossed the thin red line of heroism and remembered that June 15 of José Tomás in Las Ventas in 2008, the afternoon of the three gorings.

But let's look at the staggering numbers: Roca Rey fought

from 128 bulls (including the fight for an injured partner).

He got seven full four-eared ones, two of them with the addition of the tail.

And he conquered 44 large gates over the already reviewed figure of 63 evenings, which is 70%: 10 out of 20 in first category seats (50%);

17/26 in second-class places (65%) and 17/17 in third-year places (100%).

Of the large gates, 12 were consecutive.

And the 10 in first category squares were the following: Madrid, Bilbao, Valencia, San Sebastián, Málaga, Córdoba, Nimes, Arlés and we add Pamplona twice, always considered first even when second.

, in San Isidro, he stayed for two afternoons in San Isidro on the threshold of the Puerta Grande, finally surrendered in autumn, because of the sword, the only irregular element in his bullfighting during the course of the year.

, he was about to surrender the Puerta del Príncipe, staying with two ears of his first bull and a major scandal in the second against the presidency -which was packed in the double prize- for not awarding the third trophy.

But if there is something that escapes the statistics of this historic season, it is

to cross the inbred lines of bullfighting and connect with the youth, whose attendance in his afternoons multiplies.

By 2023 he himself will set the bar with a projection, to this day, without a roof in his condition as the

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