He was born in Quismondo in the province of Toledo into a peasant family.
He left agriculture to take part in rural bullfights (capeas) until he took his alternativa on 26 September 1917 in Madrid with Joselito (José Gómez Ortega) for sponsor, facing a bull from the Contreras line.
[1] Until 1922 he performed at an honourable level but then suffered a rapid decline and retired from the bullring.
He became an apoderado and an outstanding manager of bullfighters, including his youngest son Luis Miguel Dominguín and his future son-in-law Antonio Ordóñez.
All three sons were well-known bullfighters, as Domingo González Lucas (also known as Dominguín), José González Lucas (also known as Pepe Dominguín) and Luis Miguel Dominguín, the best-known of them, whose son is the singer Miguel Bosé.