forcado
Portuguese bullfighter
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In Portuguese bullfighting, forcados are daring young men who specialize in bull-grabbing. After a bull has been lanced, the forcados provoke it into charging. Then, one by one, they jump onto the charging bull and wrestle it to a standstill. The objective of this type of bullfighting is not to kill the bull, but to showcase the bravery of the bullfighters and the skill of the forcados. In these spectacles, the bull's horns are often padded, and the bull is not killed in the ring.1
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