From: Wired News
02:00 AM Jun. 08, 2005 PT
Gimli, the dwarf from "Lord of the Rings", isn't the only short dude who's primed for a fight: Mexican "dwarf bullfighters" regularly face off with bullocks in the ring. Though the young bulls weigh half what a normal fighting bull does, they're aggressive. "It's scary when you are face to face with a bull," said dwarf bullfighter Antonio Garcia, 40. "It hurts when you get hit. And it's dangerous if the bull falls on you." The tiny toreros don matador suits, but don't battle the bullocks to the death. Instead, dwarf picadors join the bullfighters in the ring, clowning around and whacking the bulls with plastic hammers. "It's just like being a normal-sized comic," said Jorge Reyes, 48, a weekend bullfighter. "For me there is no complex."
-- Lewis Wallace
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