The bullfighter Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez He will complete his last professional season in 2025as revealed through a video on his social networks in which he explains that this date coincides with the centenary of his grandfather Cayetano Ordóñez’s alternative, Niño de la Palma, initiator of the Ronda saga.
“Next year is very special for me. One hundred years have passed since my great-grandfather Cayetano Ordóñez began my dynasty. I feel that it is time to say goodbye,” explained the bullfighter, accompanied in the video by family images, of Ronda, his father Paquirri, his grandfather, his brother Francisco and his own career.
“It is also twenty years since I started in the world of bullfighting and not everything has been prettybut during this time I have tried to transmit qualities that my profession reflects such as courage, effort, discipline, solidarity… and I wanted to share this news with you so that we can live together with more emotion “if possible, what is without a doubt for me the most important season of my life,” says Cayetano, who gives thanks for the support and affection he has always received.
Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez will thus put the culmination to a atypical and peculiar career of a late vocation in which the call of the blood ended up imposing itself on other professional facets that he had already undertaken.
Path
Antonio Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez is the second child of the deceased Francisco Rivera Paquirri and Carmen Cayetana Ordóñez González. In his youth he directed his training towards the audiovisual communication sector and came to work in his uncle’s production company. Miguel Boseson of his great-uncle Luis Miguel Dominguín.
By then his brother Francisco was already a veteran bullfighter and the definitive decision to become a bullfighter coincided in time with the crisis of his marriage with the model Blanca Romero. It was Antonio Ruiz, Spartacus’s father, who was in charge of teaching him the rudiments of a trade that he had to learn in a hurry.
Some appearances dressed in shorts were the prelude to his formal presentation as a novillero with picadors in Ronda on March 26, 2005, in a mixed poster with Espartaco, who had reappeared for the occasion, and his brother Francisco. The youngest of the Rivera brothers, who had already retired circumstantially in the middle of the previous decade, has had since his beginnings in the trade the support and empowerment of his unclethe right-handed Curro Vázquez.
It was the bullfighter most notable of 2005 -he won the Silver Ear from Radio Nacional- adding the packaging of his second surname with the media appeal of his blood. With very little time to lose, he took the alternative in Ronda – amid enormous expectation – in the 2006 Goyesca.
It was the beginning of an irregular trajectory, not without strong mishaps in which his confirmation in Madrid stands out and especially his performances at the Goyesca de Ronda, a stage closely linked to the family saga in which his most resonant performances have taken place.