Interested take on it

Some of the reporters doing the story of the matador who came second in a bull fight have written it up as a sort of sports report, implying that the bull has some sort of a chance. So it’s not really a form of ritual slaughter, in which blokes on horses stick blades into the bull’s neck to make its head droop so that the matador can stab it in the back of the neck to kill it? Well, fancy me missing something so obvious.