WARNING: not for the faint of heart.
OUCH! Score one for the big, bad bull! I'd hate to be in this guy's shoes. Don't get me wrong. I feel bad for him. But in this sport, shit happens. Even if you're as good and as revered like Julio Aparicio, the matador who got his chin skewered by the bull's horn.
He was lucky enough to have cheated death by millimetres when the beast he was tormenting rammed its horn straight through his chin and out through his mouth. Even if the bull was pierced with several banderillas and close to being killed when he seized his chance of revenge when Aparicio stunbled. Remarkably, the big, bad bull stepped back and his horn slipped out of the matador's face as swiftly as it had entered. The medics on the ringside rushed to the scene to attend to the fallen matador and rushed him to the hospital where Aparicio's life was saved after two operations. While the bull was dispatched by other matadors in the arena.
“[The horn] went though the tongue and penetrated the roof of the mouth, fracturing the jawbone,” one of the medics who worked on Aparicio told AFP news in Madrid.
So, it's Bull - 1, Matador - 0
#1 by resume writers on November 14, 2010 - 2:08 AM
Totally horrible! Still, the guy was lucky enough to stay alive. If the horn had hit a few centimeters higher, it would’ve been fatal.