Silverio Pérez (20 June 1915 — 2 September 2006) was a Mexican

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whose nickname was "The Pharaoh."

Life

Pérez began his career in 1931, after his brother, Carmelo Pérez, was gored during a

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in Mexico by a bull named "Michin" from the ganaderia San Diego de los Padres He died weeks later in Spain as a consequence of that wound. Pérez died at his ranch in Pentecostes, east of Mexico City, of

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References

Staff and Wire Reports. (2006, September 10). ''Silverio Perez, 91; Mexican Matador Known as 'Pharaoh. The Los Angeles Times
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