Gruesome moment bullfighter is sent flying by furious beast as howling mob looks on

Daily Mail​

2 days ago

Gruesome footage captured a bullfighter getting violently blindsided by a charging bull in Mexico as a crowd looked on in horror.
Spectator videos showed Roberto Pozos challenging a bull at a festival on July 22 in Xico, a city in Veracruz.
As the crowd cheered, Pozos is seen kneeling to the ground as he faced off with a honey-colored bull.
Suddenly, a black bull charged in from the other side of Pozos, sending him flying into the air as the crowd screamed.
A second clip showed the man being throw into the other bull and getting gored in the head.
Pozos can be seen writhing on the ground and covering his head as bystanders rushed in to try to distract the beasts.
He then got to his feet and scurried away with his shirt soaked in blood.
Pozos was airlifted to a medical center in Xalapa, the capital of Veracruz, to undergo reconstructive facial surgery.
Pozos was seen writhing on the ground and covering his head as bystanders rushed in to try to distract the beasts
'Hello friends, how are you?' a smiling Pozos said in a video taken from his hospital bed the day after the frightening encounter.
'I'm sending you a big hug from the city of Xalapa.
'I'm feeling very well, thank God.
'It wasn't anything major, though.
'Everything went well with the operation. It's okay.'
The incident occurred months after a matador was viciously gored by a bull at bullring in the state of Tlaxcala on March 1.
The bull tore through Emilio Macías' left buttock and struck his femur.
It also pierced the rectum, colon and right hip.
He managed to get to his feet and run away with his shirt soaked in blood.
Macías was taken to a hospital in Puebla, where he underwent an operation that lasted almost nine hours.
Bullfighting is regulated by state laws in Mexico.
The states of Coahuila, Guerrero, Sinaloa, Sonora and Quintana Roo prohibit the practice.
In late March, lawmakers in Mexico City government reformed their bullfighting laws to ban the injuring and killing of bulls.