Image source, Reuters. The bull fight was being broadcast live on television. Image source, EPA. Related Topics. Published 22 May Published 28 July The most recent human fatality in bullfighting in Spain occurred in July — the first of its kind this century — when the young Spanish matador , Victor Barrio, was gored and trampled by the bull he was fighting.
Broadcast live on television, the event drew a wave of both sympathy and criticism from those who believe the sport should be banned.
In a country where you can find a doctor specializing in bullfight puncture wounds, known as cornadas , it may come as no surprise that this is not the first incident where the matador may suffer the fate intended for his adversary. One of the most famous matadors of all times, Juan Belmonte, is believed to have suffered over 24 major injuries as well as many more minor ones.
The bullfighter, a close friend of author Ernest Hemingway , was terribly injured during his career that he was eventually told by his doctor that he could no longer ride a horse, smoke cigars, sleep with women or drink wine.
It is believed that after hearing this news he was known to have ridden a horse to his countryside home, drank wine and slept with two ladies of the night before shooting himself with a pistol. Following the latest incident, defenders of the sport and those who decry it as barbaric clashed furiously on social media, with many claiming that the matador suffered the fate he deserved for participating in the bullfights.
The incident occurred at the Aire-sur-l'Adour bullfighting festival in France. It wasn't Fandino's first fight of the day, as he had successfully cut off a bull's ear earlier. As he was being transported from the arena, witnesses said that Fandino was saying "hurry up, I'm dying" to fellow matadors taking him away. The 5-year-old bull was seriously injured and put down as well, revitalizing the Humane Society International's calls to put bull fighting in the past forever.
Fandino had been injured before , including a incident in France in which he was knocked unconscious by a bull.
Thus his name did not even appear on the posters for his last bullfight. In any case, hegave the crowd his all and delivered tremendous showing with the last bull of the day. As he killed, however, he took a horn in the heart. He and the bull died within seconds ofeach other and with his unseeing eyes seeming to gape upward into the twilight, he wasrushed motionless to the infirmary, where it was proclaimed he was already dead.
The go ring may be seen on You Tube, but it is not pretty viewing. One may literally see thelife go out of him as he takes a few pitiful steps and falls. This torero went from Spain to Mexico in an attempt to make his name trulyinternational. Instead, he became a statistic. While appearing in Mexico City in , hefaced a bull with enormous horns and had earlier remarked how he dreaded this beast.
The injury demolished his intestines, but he lingered for a short time in great agony. Infection andshock proved too much for him and he passed away, but fate was not finished with him. Candles left unwatched at his funeral were knocked over by a gust of wind from an openwindow. These set fire to the drapes around the coffin and afterward the body itself,reducing much of it to ashes. A Mexican torero of crude valor and stubbornness, he was gored a multitude of times, butalways returned to the ring braver than ever.
Many of his gorings were due to his frenziedstyle, in which he ignored flaws or defects in the animals he faced and insisted uponfighting them with arrogant indifference.
Shortly after the death of Manolete, Carnicerito,who was friends with the recently deceased torero, was gored in Portugal just weeksafterward. Like Carnicerito decades later, Espartero was a crudely valiant man who was often goredbecause he refused to coast with the bulls he faced, no matter how difficult.
Such may be so ashis real life goring was remarkably similar to that of the fictional Gallardo.
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