Reminds me of when I saw people getting flipped or gored by bulls.

" Tremendous power, which is why the hated picadors work the animals' neck muscles."

I get the logic behind that, but sometimes the picadores go too far. At the last fight I went to, the audience was booing because the picador was literally goring the bulls in the back. By the end, they were literally throwing empty bottles and other stuff into the ring. The audience wants to at least have the illusion that the bull has a sporting chance and that the matador is putting himself at a significant risk of danger, rather than the highly controlled execution/slaughter that it actually is.