Remember the Spanish bullfighter who had his eyes gored out a while back? As it turns out, he wants to return to the ring this weekend wearing an eye patch.
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Juan José Padilla, 38, now dubbed ‘The Pirate,’ will risk life and limb just five months after he was seen hobbling from a Zaragoza ring covered in blood screaming, “I can’t see.”
Padilla says he is “fully prepared” and has admitted there will be an added element of danger, as he will not see the bull whenever it brushes past him on his blind left side.
This dude is nuts!
Padilla was gorged in October after he slipped on the sand, a bull’s horn pierced his jaw and it came out through his eye.
The crowds at the Zaragoza’s Fiestas Del Pilar bullfight at the Misericordia ring were left stunned.
On Sunday he will take on his first professional fight since the goring in the western town of Olivenza on Sunday, telling reporters:
“Sunday will feel like a dream come true, after some very hard months, and I’m fully aware that nobody thought I would be back now.”
His wife Lidia and two children are said to be behind his lucrative return, but he added, “My parents couldn’t understand why I would want to.”
Good luck to Padilla on his return to the ring!
