Julián López Escobar

Julián López Escobar (born October 3, 1982) commonly known as El Juli, is a Spanish bullfighter.

[1] Julián López Escobar caped his first bull at the young age of nine and his family enrolled him in the Madrid Academy of Tauromachy.

On March 16, 1997, at the age of 14, López Escobar made his bullfighting debut in Texcoco, Mexico.

Approximately one year later, on September 18, 1998, López Escobar received his alternativa in Nîmes, France, with José María Manzanares as his "godfather" and Ortega Cano standing as witness.

During the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain in 2010, he was injured and had to be hospitalized after a bull gored him in the thigh, stomach and scrotum.