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.
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
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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…