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    Spain: bullfighter survives terrifying face goring

    MADRID (AP) — A Spanish bullfighter is likely to suffer facial paralysis and lose the sight in one eye after a terrifying goring, the hospital treating him said Saturday.

    Television images showed the moment when the bull's left horn ripped into Juan Jose Padilla's lower jaw to emerge beside his protruding eyeball as spectators in the northeastern city of Zaragoza screamed in horror.

    Padilla is in a stable condition and recovering from a five-hour operation to repair his face, the statement from the Miguel Servet Hospital said.

    It said Padilla, 39, suffered eye, bone, muscle and skin damage when the bull pinned him to the ground and gored him. Surgeons had not been able to repair a severed facial nerve.

    TV footage also showed Padilla getting up from the ring, his face gushing blood, as the bull was distracted by bullring assistants.

    "I can't see, I can't see anything," the matador shouted as he was rushed to emergency facilities at Zaragoza's Misericordia bullring before being driven to the hospital.

    The bull, named Marques, weighed 508 kilograms (1,120 pounds) and was the second fighting beast Padilla had faced late Friday, during the second day of the annual Virgen del Pilar festivities in Zaragoza.

    Surgeons used titanium plates and mesh to reconstruct parts of Padilla's facial bone structure and eye socket, doctors Simon Sanz and Nadal Cristobal said in a very detailed, signed statement.

    Padilla was lucky the horn did not penetrate his brain, said Vicente Yesteras, one of Padilla's retinue of bullring helpers.

     

    521 comments

    • Paul  •  2 mths ago
      I guess that's why they call it a Bullseye !
    • truth  •  7 mths ago
      There is no glory in toying with and then killing animals
      • LaurieM 7 mths ago
        But there is glorying in watching someone so evil get gored that way.
      • John 7 mths ago
        Actually, you are the first post to make a point I completely disagree with. There is no glory in killing something you have a huge advantage over, so in this instance having more than 2 swords makes it an unfair fight and makes me see the point of all the people who are against bullfighting. If someone did it with, say, a single dagger, I for one would say that's pretty impressive! Kinda like killing a grizzly bear with your bare hands or a full grown great white shark with just a diving knife. How would there be no glory in that?
      • sosad 7 mths ago
        There is no glory in killing. Why don't you search for your glory in finding the cure for horrible diseases, balancing the country's budget, or other positive means?
    • jennflip  •  7 mths ago
      mess with the bull---get the horn!!!!!
    • nothing to say  •  7 mths ago
      no sympathy here...
    • Mikhail  •  7 mths ago
      El Toro 1 El Matador 0
    • kimmmme  •  7 mths ago
      It is extreemly difficult to feel sorry for him. Making a living from the torture of animals doesn't garner much sympathy from me.
      • An American 7 mths ago
        Oh but that is what makes him a MAN. Now a very ugly one but none the less a MAN. 10 more points for the bull!
      • Jennifer 7 mths ago
        If you are stupid enough to fight bulls then expect to be gorged, no sympathy here bro.
    • Raft  •  7 mths ago
      Bravo toro!
    • jtWallace  •  7 mths ago
      Barbarianism still prevails within man. When the ''bull fighter'' plunges swords in a bull and still expects it to perform the bullfighter's ritual. Hell, I and many others have no sympathy for the ''manly art of barbarity''.
      • An American 7 mths ago
        JtWallace, Truer words never spoken. This barbaric ritual is supposed to make you what? A man? Well to all those who do not subscribe to this barbaric ritual, You Are the Man! Now mr bullfighter can look at his Manly face for the rest of his natural life and see if his badge shines as brightly as it did. Score one for the bull!
    • a  •  7 mths ago
      Play with the bull and you get poked.
    • Gman  •  7 mths ago
      Note to self, do not play with large angry animals
    • John  •  7 mths ago
      If they would fight the bulls with out cutting their neck muscles, then it would be fair, other wise I hope the bulls get in all the licks they can.
    • Roberto C  •  7 mths ago
      Viva the Bull !!!!!!!! I get so happy when the bull wins !!!!!! Medieval stupid sport.
      • Je Vois Tous 7 mths ago
        .....no more stupid than, say football or hockey or modern day chariot races or any of the other gladiatorial sports, for that matter............
      • A 7 mths ago
        last time i watched a football, hockey game or race no one was torturing any animals to death. You must be getting some crazy sports channels man.
    • s  •  7 mths ago
      Good for the bull!! Stupid and barbaric sport anyway
    • mpo65251  •  7 mths ago
      That must be what they call Bulls eye
    • Bill Appoggiatura  •  7 mths ago
      I have ZERO sympathy for the bull fighter. He was torturing the bull -- the bull had no chance of survival -- tough titty said the kitty -- the bull fighter is lucky he didn't get poked in his #$%$ Bull fighting should be outlawed!!!
    • The Bandit  •  7 mths ago
      Looks like Bull one and bullfighter nothing.
    • BC  •  7 mths ago
      Fair is fair. The dude attacked the bull, and the bull defended itself. I cannot find it in me to feel sorry for that idiot.
    • y. a.  •  7 mths ago
      if they insist on calling it a fight, than sometimes the bull should be expected to win...that is if it's a fair fight.
    • Joe B  •  7 mths ago
      You mess with the bull...
    • teachacreacha  •  7 mths ago
      Every bull that is ever forced into a bullfight is terrified. Now this bull killer knows how it feels to be on the other end of torment. It always pleases me when these animal exploiters get their comeuppance.
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