A top Spanish matador who suffered a horrendous, near-fatal goring in Mexico is recovering, his manager said Monday.
Doctors in Mexico are preparing to take matador Jose Tomas off sedation gradually and he is "totally out of danger," manager Salvador Boix said.
Tomas was gored in the groin Saturday during a bullfight in the Mexican city of Aguascalientes. The bull's horn severed a vein and an artery and Tomas received a blood transfusion of up to 17 pints (eight liters), Boix said.
Mexican television footage showed Tomas working the animal with his cape when the bull makes a quick turn toward the matador and catches him in the groin, lifting him into the air for a few seconds and shaking its head with Tomas dangling from its sharp left horn.
The bullfighter's father, Jose Tomas Roman, said from Mexico that normally he watches his son fight from high up in the stands but this time happened to be at ringside. When Tomas was gored, he said, "the whole ring knew that it was a horrible injury."
"I will never do that again," he told the radio station, referring to his ringside spot. "I feared for the worst."
Tomas is known for a daring bullfighting style in which he gets partic
The matador José Tomás, who cultivates an air of mystery by performing infrequently, met his match in Bellotero on Sunday in Mexico Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times.
By GEOFFREY GRAY.
MEXICO CITY — It was not long after the first trumpets on Sunday that José Tomás found himself in familiar territory: inches from the vicious horns of a fighting bull, so close they nearly brushed up against the pink silk of his traje de luces, or suit of lights.
Careful not to twitch a muscle, which could have triggered the bull to attack him, Tomás stood firm in this dangerous position and alone at the center of the Plaza México, the biggest bullring in the world. Tomás’s cultish followers are called Tomásistas, and the bullring was filled with more than 45, spectators, the largest draw for a matador in recent memory.
All of them were eager to witness the Great One before he decided to retire on his own or before another horn wound ended it for him.
Tomás, 40, was not like other matadors. He was the embodiment of mystery — in and out of the ring. For years, he has refused to give interviews, refused to appear on television. You had to see him live to see him at all, and h
Bullfighter José Tomás. A legendary bullfighter
The Myth of Galapagar, José Tomás is the bullfighter who is a legend in life, a master of filled bullrings, the Midas of posters inspiration of many people.
We dedicate this space for lovers of the art of bullfighting and the man who makes us admire him for his way of gambling life.
"I do not come close, the only thing I do is stay still, the one that comes close is the bull." José Tomás
His origin:
José Tomás Román Martín was born on August 20, in Galapagar, Madrid. Son of Isabel and José Tomás, he is the eldest of four brothers. His grandfather Celestino Román was the responsible of his love for bullfighting, whom he had accompanied as a child to the bullring of Las Ventas (Madrid). He is also the nephew-grandson of the rancher Victorino Martín.
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The beginning:
He fought his first calf with 11 years and debuted in public on July 25, , in the town of Colmenarejo in Madrid. His did his first &#;paseíllo&#; in lights in Valdemorillo (Madrid) on February 7, and debuted with picadors in Benidorm on June 24, Antonio Barrera an
Bullfight audience asked to give blood to gored Spanish matador who needed pint transfusion
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Updated:
One of Spain's leading matadors was seriously injured in Mexico when a one ton bull gored him in the groin and hurled him into the air, his manager said yesterday.
Jose Tomas received an emergency transfusion of 17 pints of blood after he was gored by a bull named Navegante in the Mexican city of Aguascalientes.
The bull's horn punctured a vein and an artery, manager Salvador Boix told Spanish radio station Cadena Ser.
Critical: Spanish matador Jose Tomas is gored in the groin during a national fair in Aguascalientes, Mexico
Stricken: The popular matador needed 17 pints of blood and doctors operated at the bullring without anaesthetic
Transfusion: Doctors asked members of the crowd to donate A type blood to help Mr Tomas
Mr Tomas, one of Spain's most popular matadors, has a relatively rare blood type - A - and bled so heavily that bullring officials appealed over the arena loudspeakers for compatible donors.
Doctors operated on the year-old immediately to stabilise him, and he underwent three hours more surgery at a hospital later on.
Mr
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