The man admired by many Spaniards as the finest bullfighter ever seen is recovering in hospital after being gored by a bull during his comeback from retirement.
José Antonio Morante, more commonly known by his matador’s moniker Morante de la Puebla, suffered the injury on Sunday, while bullfighting in Seville. Video footage showed him being lifted off his feet as the bull’s horn punctured his buttock, before colleagues drew the animal away from him by distracting it with their capes.
After initially being in a very serious condition with the 10-centimetre wound, which perforated his rectum, Morante is now recovering.
They don’t do themselves any favours animal wise there’s this, pushing donkeys of diving boards and I’ve also seen articles with them allegedly using dogs/cats as live shark bait for fishing a half dozen times in British papers.
It’s weird I’m kind of half respecting them right now for standing up to Trump/USA but then I remember these things.
Apparently, only a minority of Spanish citizens actually support this caliber of animal cruelty. The rest of them have, thankfully, done the sane and compassionate thing and evolved past this barbarism and its excuses. Here’s hoping that more people understand why this shit belongs in the dark ages with dogfighting, cockfights, and betta fish fighting.