Saul Jimenez Fortes, a prominent matador, was gored Sunday at the Feria de San Isidro bullfighting festival in Salamanca, Spain, the horn going up through his chin and reaching the base of his skull, according to reports.
It was his first time back in the ring since May, when he was gored in the neck and lifted on the bull’s horn into his neck, a horrific injury that required several hours of surgery and several months of recuperation.
Jiménez Fortes sufrió 2 cornadas en el cuello y su estado de salud es grave pero estable
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— CANCHA (@canchamural) May 14, 2015
“It is a tremendous goring, but now we just wait,” spokesman Matthias Nemesio said of Fortes’ latest recovery, according to a translation from La Voz de Galicia, which is expected to take — again — a few months.
It’s his eighth goring in two years, and El Mundo reported it was worse than the previous goring, which occurred in Madrid.
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