Juan José Padilla is a Spanish torero ('bullfighter') at Plaza de Toros México. He became a matador de toros, 'killer of bulls’, when he was 21 years old. On October 7, 2011 he was gored by a bull in Zaragoza, almost dying from his injuries. From a single horn wound through his skull, he suffered multiple fractures to both jaw and skull, facial paralysis, loss of hearing in his right ear and of sight in his left eye. Five months later in March 2012, he returned to the bullring with an eyepatch - gaining the nickname 'The Pirate'.
Juan José Padilla is a Spanish torero ('bullfighter'). He became a matador de toros, 'killer of bulls’, when he was 21 years old. On October 7, 2011 he was gored by a bull in Zaragoza, almost dying from his injuries. From a single horn wound through his skull, he suffered multiple fractures to both jaw and skull, facial paralysis, loss of hearing in his right ear and of sight in his left eye. Five months later in March 2012, he returned to the bullring with an eyepatch - gaining the nickname 'The Pirate’ On March 12, 2017 at a bullfight in Valencia, he was gored through the thigh and chest, suffering a punctured lung. Having announced his intention to retire at the end of the year in 2018, his final tour of the bull rings of Spain was marked with great successes and further injuries. In July 2018, Padilla lost his footing during a bullfight in Arévalo and fell to the ground after he was struck several times by the bull. The bull's horn caught his head, and he was scalped. He was rushed to a hospital in Avila, and doctors ruled out any brain damage. He returned to the ring in Pamplona a few days later. His final corrida was with the bulls of Núñez del Cuvillo in the Feria de El Pilar in Zaragoza, the same ring where he had lost his eye seven years before. Cutting two ears from his final bull, he was carried out of the ring on the shoulders of the crowd and finally retired, still number one in the escalafón, the official ranking of matadors in Spain. -Wikipedia
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