The right -handed José Antonio Morante de la Puebla, 45 years old, has suffered a serious gun with two trajectories in the right thigh during the afternoon run this Sunday in the Plaza de Pontevedra.
According to the medical part, it has been treated in the nursing of a “bull -wound wound in the inner face of the right thigh. Anfractuous wound of 20 cm that affects subcutaneous tissue, muscular fascia and tear of the major abductor with two trajectories: a descending of 10 cm and another ascending of 6 cm”. Its prognosis is serious.
The bullfighter has been transferred to the Quirón-Pontevedra hospital after being treated in the nursing of the square.
The fuck has occurred when Morante foured the first bull of Garcigrande; When citing for a chest pass it has been turned on and the animal’s python has penetrated the thigh of the bullfighter.
The surgeon of the square, Pedro Gil, has assured the World Portal that, if there are no complications, the recovery period should not be long.
“As in all cornadas, there is a risk of infection despite the cure we have done,” he added; “However, from my point of view, it can be without fighting between ten and fifteen days, although it could be before, because you already know how bullfighters are …”.
Morante had traveled this morning by plane from Jerez de la Frontera, after yesterday afternoon he performed in the Plaza de El Puerto de Santa María and left on shoulders after cutting two ears.
In Pontevedra he has done the walk with Alejandro Talavante and Daniel Luque.
José Antonio Morante Camacho is starring in 2025 the season of his life since he took the alternative in Burgos on June 29, 1997. After his incontestable triumph at the last April Fair and his departure on his shoulders by the big door of the sales on June 8, the Sevillian bullfighter has become the favorite of the fans, in the highest grossing and the one that concerns the most followers.
We talk about him as a “revolutionary” of bullfighting for his enormous artistic capacity, for his value, delivery, pundonor, for his surprising inspiration and because he does not cease to resurrect suertes already forgotten.
The successful campaign of the bullfighter is even more relevant due to the mental health problems he suffers and that have forced him in different stages of his career to temporarily retire from the arena. Last year he left the light suit even three times, and during the winter he underwent a new treatment in Portugal that, in view of what happened later, has been effective.
Morante reappeared in Seville and triumphed big; He returned to Madrid and, for the first time, opened the big door of sales, and, since then, he is the reference bullfighter of contemporary bullfighting.
His afternoons are counted by triumphs, he is confident and very safe on the face of the bulls; Maybe, too much. Last Friday, he cut two ears and a tail in the Plaza de Marbella, and then suffered a spectacular somersault that had no more consequences than a painful leg and a gap in the head, and the first reason would have in its total contempt for risk.
Yesterday, Saturday, he made the infiltrated walk and was again turned in the Plaza de El Puerto de Santa María upon receiving one of his bulls with several mills with the cape. And now, Pontevedra.
Morante had planned to participate this year in 45 runs (today is number 29), but everything will depend on the time that must be low because of the wound suffered this afternoon in Pontevedra. His attorney commented a few days ago to this newspaper that the interest of companies to hire his bullfighter was such that he was forced to reject interesting offerings for physical impossibility to fulfill them.