[5][6] Aparicio made his first public appearance in relation to bullfighting on 2 September 1984 at the Arenas de San Pedro.

[2] In 1986, Aparicio, while thinking about studying law, decided to leave everything for a career in bullfighting at the age of sixteen.

[7] Aparicio débuted as a novillero, a fighter of young bulls, on 8 February 1987 in Gandia, Spain alongside Fernando Lozano and Gregorio de Jesús as a picador.

[8] Aparicio received his alternativa (alternative), a ceremony which a novillero starts fighting mature bulls for the first time as a torero, on 15 April 1990 at the Royal Cavalry of Seville.

He had his reaparición, or comeback, on 15 March 2000 in an event with José Mari Manzanares and Juan Bautista in Fitero.

The incident happened as Aparicio was attempting the faena, a series of passes in which a torero uses his cape and sword before delivering the estocada, or death blow.

[14] Doctors at Las Ventas operated on Aparicio for an hour and performed an emergency tracheotomy to stabilize him.