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.
Spain’s greatest bull gore’s washed up matador…
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t root for the bulls, fuck bullfighting, fuck bullfighters, fuck the running of the bulls too. I hope everyone involved gets lifechanging injuries.
It’s indeed animal abuse imo
Same with foxhunting, barbaric traditions
- Mess with the bull.
- Get the horns.
Also, while a proctological exam is important at that age, it’s probably better to see a trained MD
I image this like Gladiator where Maximus is actually the bull being the main character
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
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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.
Super hot take time: giving the bull a chance to go out swining isn’t that much worse than having it put down ”humanely” in a factory, spending it’s last time in a line that reeks of blood.
The real crime is against entertainment. Who am I supposed do be rooting for here? Apparently not the underdog that’s outnumbered and surrounded by a bunch of dirty spaniards with swords and near zero chance of winning.
Who watches this? Seriously!
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.
Of course it’s “technically” correct, but I’m a bit tired of Spain being known for bullfighting and people not realizing that it’s actually very unpopular here.
Like also tourist shops in Barcelona still sell bullfighting related articles, even if corridas were actually legally banned for many years in Catalonia (ban reversed by the conservative constitutional court years later). It just shows that this shit is still something people think about when thinking of Spain
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…
It’s just a phrase. For positive stuff you say “couldn’t have happened to a better/nicer person” so that’s the opposite. I can think of quite few worse people that’d deserve to be gored by a bull
I wasn’t aware of that. Thank you for sharing.
Heck yeah. Go bull!
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!
L’europe c’est comme ça ;)
Boa noite.
Plus, his username is “ich will hier raus”, lol
A real European, just as Umberto Eco intended
the spanaird gored the fool.
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.
I always root for the bull.
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If the bull wins it should get to retire.
Fuck that. It should level up and get to pick improved armor and weapons and then go back to gore more asshole matadors.
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then go back to gore more [matador assholes].
👉👉
Well, the traditional thing is the opposite, his whole bloodline is ended
Well thats dumb he won. What is he too dangerous now?
Yes, exactly. Because this has never been about “fairness” or “fighting a worthy fight” as supporters of corridas like to pretend. it’s just about slowly torturing to death an animal in front of a live audience.
Disgusting. There is no sport in that. Might as well fight a ill tempered chicken then.
I say let’s keep it unbanned, but matadores now have to go into the ring empty fisted and no picadores are allowed so that they can’t whittle down at the Bull’s capabilities. Just a 1 on 1 match to the death with both “athletes” at peak performance
Oh the bewolf technique. That is certainly sporting. But I say keep it even and let the matador get a horned helmet. 😅
Nice one, bull. Right up the arse. 😁👍
When you kill animals for sport, you can’t be upset when the other team shows up.
its only fair the animal responds in kind.
ay yi yi
My new meme template
“when you finally convince her to do stuff with your butt”
The 10 cm wound perforating his rectum is the second biggest asshole, after the bull fighter himself.
he ripped a new asshole.
How’s the bull?
very serious condition with the 10-centimetre wound, which perforated his rectum,
I assume proud. He should be.
The bull will have to be proud from the afterlife, since killing them is the whole point of the performance. But you’re right, he absolutely should be proud, good aim. And since he’s taken down the supposed “finest bullfighter ever”, we can recognize and remember this bull as the now undisputed champion of bullfighting, and the actual finest bullfighter ever. Let him be an inspiration to all future bulls fighting in this deplorable sport. Even though the bulls never win, I will celebrate their efforts to make as many humans lose as possible.
IIRC bulls who win their fights are studded out to breeders. Bulls who lose are available at the concession stand.
Unfortunately not quite that straightforward. Bulls that win usually still die from their wounds. If they survive, and if the matador believes the bull showed exceptional skill, they can be “spared” and are returned to the owners with a prize (though this is extremely rare)
I think this bull showed exceptional skill.
Not really, that’s only if they survive and are pardoned, which is very rare. The normal thing is for the Bull’s bloodline to be ended
Putting forth the proposal this bull gets the nicknames “Rectum Ralph”.
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.
Yes but most people absolutely hate it. And some parts of Spain forbid it already.
Oh no is the bull ok
