He made his first public appearance on 10 August 1986 in the Plaza De Toros in Baeza (Jaén).

Some of his early debut appearances were on 9 March 1988, in Castellón with Curro Trillo and Jose Luis Torres when he was a Novillero.

[1] In 2019 he was left seriously injured after being tossed in the air by a bull, leaving him with torn ligaments in his knee requiring surgery and a 10cm core injury to his buttock.

Ponce sustained further injury to his buttock in 2020 when rammed from behind by a bull at El Puerto de Santa María.

In 2020 the couple announced they were filing for divorce, and Enrique was seen around the same time with his current partner, Ana Soria, who is 26 years younger than him.