José María Garzón (Seville, 52 years old) is the new entrepreneur of the La Maestranza bullring for the next five years, replacing the Pagés company, currently directed by Ramón Valencia, whose family has managed the Sevillian bullring since 1932.
The company that owns the square has just announced it with a very short two-line statement in which it informs of the change of management company without further explanation.
This news is a surprise as great as it is unexpected. Just yesterday, the blog The bull, by the horns analyzed the situation in this newspaper and hypothesized that Ramón Valencia will continue to be an entrepreneur in the Seville area. The Royal Maestranza of Seville and the Pagés company, a destroyed couple condemned to live under the same roof The text was titled, but it wasn’t. Apparently, the couple was more devastated than expected and ended in a total separation.
The terms of the agreement signed with the new company are not known at the moment, but let’s not forget that the one in force until today provided that the company had to pay Real Maestranza 21.88% of the total turnover of the bullfighting festivals and 50% of the profits of the other shows.
José María Garzón had already seemed a serious contender for the Sevillian position, but he did not, in principle, have the necessary support to sustain it. He is currently the entrepreneur of the first class squares of Córdoba and Málaga; Santander, Cáceres, Almería, Torrejón de Ardoz and Écija.
