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.
So soon after a millionaire was stomped into paste by elephants?
I think things are actually getting better.
Given how the bulls are treated prior to the bullfighting … good!
Does it say why the bull came out of retirement?
Spaniard here.
Bullfighting is nowadays extremely niche of the extreme right wind retards. No normal perdon liked it, let alone knows the name of that arschloch.
We are happy the bull managed to win a small fight.
Man, I love the EU.
Spaniard here
German username and uses the word Arschloch
English comment
This is the world I want to live in!
Plus, his username is “ich will hier raus”, lol
I’m glad to hear this—hopefully it will be completely gone soon.
That was all well and good, but I was hoping it was the video if the matadors asshole getting reemed by the bull and not a live concert song in spanish that’s apparently anti bull fighting.
The video is all over the net … here ya go friend.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/16251219/bullfighter-gored-bum-matador-rushed-hospital/
The point I was trying to make was that we’ve been protesting it since the 90’s and it’s almost extinct.
Yeah. I heard damned near everyone is against it there.
Awwwwwesome!
This brings me joy. I hope the bull is alright.
Finally some good news
Anyone got a link to the video of it happening?
I’ve been giving Spain too much credit lately, but I forgot that this shit is still legal. Barbaric traditions from the past should stay in the past.
Yesss. I hope for this all the times i hear from matadors.
Oh no, I hope he didn’t injure his horns!
Cheers. Hoping he has lasting injuries and has trouble walking until his final days. Animal cruelty isn’t cool.
Is he … smiling with that horn in his ass?
Morante has been open about his lifelong struggles with mental illness
“I have thought about death as a relief, but I can’t do it, I have a family and responsibility,” he has said.Probably thought this was his grand finale.
“I never thought I’d go like this.”
“I mean, I hoped, but I never thought it’d happen”
Is it just me or does the headline make it sound like the bull is the one who came out of retirement for this?
admired by many Spaniards
Sorry but no. Bullfighting is actually very unpopular in Spain. It’s a relic of the past that’s kept on life support by conservative politics.
Very happy to hear he has been gored by the bull. Couldn’t have happened to a worse person. And this is always the reaction of pretty much everyone I know whenever this happens
Last line:
A poll taken last year by the BBVA Foundation found 77 per cent of Spaniards found the pastime “unacceptable”.
pastime
Really? I think these events could be memorialized as a sort of messed up cultural thing to look back upon, but using such a banal word for it feels pretty odd in its own right
Yeah, people don’t often realize the bull is literally being tortured by getting stabbed. Then it’s eventually killed. I mean if you’re killing animals for food do it as humane as possible, but for a show? No.
I suppose ‘many’ is a relative term. As a pure number of people I’m sure there are tens of thousands of Spaniards who love the ‘sport’. But as a percentage of the population, yeah you’re right - the large majority think it’s stupid and want it gone.
I wasn’t aware of that. Thank you for sharing.
To a worse person? I can think the president of certain centric community that’s very pro-bullfighting and directly responsible for killing thousands of grandpas…
