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Spanish Bullfighter Gets Gored in Nuts, Drops out of Peru Bullfight Festival
“There’s no way to be a great matador and not get gored.” That’s what Bob Simon of 60 Minutes drew from his experiences while reporting on bullfighters in Spain, and it’s an ethos shared by most professional matadors. (Click here to read about Simon’s getting gored himself while researching his story.) Horrendous groin accidents are part of the job, which involved shimmying as close as possible to the horns of a furious 2,000-pound beast. (What were people thinking when they invented this sport?) A particularly brutal bullfight in Madrid earlier this month left several matadors bleeding in their partes nobles (literally, “noble parts,” or gonads), among them Miguel Angel Perera of Spain.…


