On 18 September that same year, he was "consecrated" at Madrid's Las Ventas bullring, alternating with Joselito de la Cal and Rafael Ortega.

In 1957, he broke a leg in a charitable bullfight for those affected by the 1957 Valencia flood, and the next year, a bull named Cubitoso, supplied by Sánchez Cobaleda, seriously wounded him in the neck.

Throughout his career, he came out through the Great Gate at the Las Ventas bullring no fewer than eleven times, behind only El Viti (14) and Paco Camino (12).

On 25 May 1963, already having become a consecrated figure, he gave the alternativa to Manuel Benítez, "El Cordobés" and in 1964, in San Sebastián de los Reyes, with a bull supplied by Cembrano, he fought what according to many critics was the best bullfight of his life.

His reappearance after four years likewise took place at the Las Ventas bullring, on 18 May, when he confirmed Mexican bullfighter Curro Rivera Agüero's alternativa.

On 30 May he was borne shoulder-high out through the Great Gate at Las Ventas for the eleventh and last time after killing the bulls from his own lot and Andrés Vázquez's besides, who had been wounded during the fight.

On 26 June 1971, Bienvenida participated in the commemorative anthological corrida marking the sesquicentenary of the Battle of Carabobo at the Monumental in Valencia, together with Luis Miguel Dominguín and César Girón on the day of his retirement.

He was not only a period bullfighter, he knew how to be above passing fashions, in an insatiable quest for the essences of bullfighting.On 4 October 1975, the anniversary of his father's death, Bienvenida attended Mass at a church in Colmenar Viejo.

After trying a few, one named Conocida, whom he had let through the gate and who was galloping into the field, turned about, came back into the trial yard and without warning charged Bienvenida, whom she spectacularly knocked head over heels.

The incident caused serious injury to Bienvenida's vertebrae, which three days later (7 October) led to his death at the La Paz hospital in Madrid.

The next day, his coffin was borne shoulder-high into the Las Ventas bullring by his fellow bullfighters, among whom were Ángel Peralta Pineda, Paco Camino, Curro Romero, Francisco Rivera Paquirri and Palomo Linares.

[23][24] He joined the latter as a supernumerary in 1969,[25] and always considered his two meetings with Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, the institution's founder, to be high points in his life.