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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.

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[–] Elaine@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago
[–] probable_possum@leminal.space 18 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

“It was the most painful goring I have ever suffered in my career,” he told El Mundo newspaper from his hospital bed. “I felt enormous pain and I was very scared because I could tell that the bull had gored me and I thought I was bleeding a lot.”

Perspective switch

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I am amazed how one can use these words while being totally oblivious to the feelings of pain and being scared that the animals go through.

[–] probable_possum@leminal.space 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

What do you mean? Torero feels pain and fear, which helps him to see the bull's perspective. Wrong?

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 points 47 minutes ago

I must have missed the part here where the torero had a change of heart.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

You're not murdering animals for entertainment if you feel things like empathy or shame.

[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

Today he learned being poked by sharp things hurts

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

In Spain these guys will actually kill the bull in the Arena (hence the name "matador" - literally "killer"), so this is only fair.

PS: Mind you, not that "just" the part of torturing of the bull (the only part done in Portugal) is much better.

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

After initially being in a very serious condition with the 10-centimetre wound, which perforated his rectum, Morante is now recovering.

Get rekt!

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 13 points 9 hours ago

I love the photo. That horn looks like it's getting a full tour of that fucker's Spanish colony.

[–] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 9 hours ago
[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 28 points 12 hours ago

awww. poor guy. Maybe next time he shouldn't have participated in the torture of a live animal.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 38 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

When you kill animals for sport, you can't be upset when the other team shows up.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

its only fair the animal responds in kind.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] prodaccess@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

My new meme template

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[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

"...bull in comeback from retirement" Sounds like the comeback was successful :P

(Is there a c/ for ambiguous headlines?)

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 22 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm glad that my community in Spain doesn't permit this animal abuse anymore.

[–] Undvik@fedia.io 4 points 8 hours ago

Are you in Canarias? Because in Catalonia, where it was banned, the constitutional court reversed the ban as punishment for the independence movement (while leaving the canaries ban standing, clear double standard). So it's sadly not officially banned in Catalonia any more, but of course no corridas actually happen as they'd get no money from the Generalitat.

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 20 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

So soon after a millionaire was stomped into paste by elephants?

I think things are actually getting better.

[–] prodaccess@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Nature is healing.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Harambe has risen.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

My favorite is still the killer whales capsizing rich people's sailboats. Although that would have been even better if the orcas had eaten the free snacks.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Nature is healing

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[–] ichwillhierraus@feddit.org 73 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

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.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 13 hours ago

the spanaird gored the fool.

[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 35 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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!

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[–] Undvik@fedia.io 193 points 1 day ago (8 children)

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

[–] TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world 67 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Last line:

A poll taken last year by the BBVA Foundation found 77 per cent of Spaniards found the pastime “unacceptable”.

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