Jaime Bravo early training as a "trapezista" saved his life in the bull ring many times. A native of Mexico City, Jaime seldom fought there because he was so popular in border towns like Tijuana. Bravo also had the uncanny knack of utilizing scandal to garner headlines. During an August 1968 "corrida", playing to the tourist crowds of Tijuana, Bravo "requested the animal be spared. This, in turn, was denied, and the torero [Bravo] who refused to kill the bull was escorted to the local jail and fined". Bravo received headlines for his defiance. Only one month earlier, at a July 1968
Jaime del Burgo Torres Navarrese town of Villava, according to another he was born in Pamplona. Nothing is known about his profession; politically he sympathised with the Carlists and at the age of 45 took part in street brawls. He married a pamplonesa, Paula Torres Jacoiste (1887-1973). Living in Pamplona, the couple had three sons and four daughters, all brought up in Traditionalist ambience and fervently Catholic atmosphere, at times bordering exaltation. Jaime Victoriano Martin was born as Percal y Torres and it is not clear in what circumstances the family changed their surname to del Burgo. Nothing is known about his early childhood;