Mauled matador Antonio Romero gave a big thumbs up following surgery to repair his severely damaged derrière.
Doctors said the groggy 38-year-old toreador needed his entire anus and sphincter stitched back together after the animal’s 11-inch horn traveled into his nether regions.
“I have faith and hope in returning to feel and show that I can be someone important in the fiesta brava,” the sidelined toreador said, the Daily Star reported.
Horrifying video showed Romero seemingly in control as he taunted the bull, named Caporal — “leader” in Spanish — with a red cloth, called a muleta.
But something went wrong when he tried to get the bull to turn around him. The angry beast caught him on the arm and knocked him off balance before ramming its horn into his backside.
Romero survived Caporal’s punishment when other bullfighters jumped to his aid and distracted the enraged beast.
Dr. Rafael Vázquez Bayod said the horn left “very, very serious damage to his anorectal region.”
It “completely destroyed the anal sphincter and very seriously damaged the rectum,” he unsurprisingly noted.
This article was originally published in the New York Post.