Matador Andrés Roca Rey is the second bullfighter to sustain serious injuries after fighting a bull this week – Jose Antonio Morante Camacho was severely injured after a bull’s horn reportedly perforated his rectum
A bullfighter has been seriously injured during a fight in the most recent incident this week.
Matador Andrés Roca Rey was gored during a bullfight at the Plaza de Toros de la Maestranza in Seville, Spain. According to medical reports, Rey sustained a deep wound with two trajectories of 20 and 15 centimetres, Alerta Mundial reported.
He is the second bullfighter to suffer a goring of this nature this week.
A video posted to social media shows Rey holding a red fabric, a muleta, in one had and what appears to be a sword in the other.
Moments later, the bull rams into Rey, tossing him around while others try to distract the raging bull.
Rey managed to roll away before being helped to his feet. Blood can be seen across his pants.
He was carried out of the arena by five men.
Just days earlier a top Spanish bullfighter suffered a “very serious” injury after a bull’s horn reportedly perforated his rectum following a 10cm gore.
Jose Antonio Morante Camacho, dubbed by many publications as ‘king of the bullfighters’, was competing on Monday, April 20 when the incident occurred.
Video footage of the incident show the bull horn connect with his buttock but the extent of the injury was not visible other than a tear in his pants.
Bullfighting is a contest between a matador and a bull, in which the fighter tries to subdue or kill the animal in accordance with a set of rules.
The controversial practice is legal in Spain, France, Portugal, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and Ecuador, but many other countries, including the UK, have banned the contest.