Silverio Pérez (bullfighter)
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Silverio Pérez (20 June 1915 — 2 September 2006) was a Mexican
matador
whose nickname was "The Pharaoh."
Life
Pérez began his career in 1931, after his brother, Carmelo Pérez, was gored during a
bullfight
in Mexico by a bull named "Michin" from the ganaderia San Diego de los Padres He died weeks later in Spain as a consequence of that wound.
Pérez died at his ranch in Pentecostes, east of Mexico City, of pneumonia.
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