Cowboy Was Tossed By Bull Before
Being tossed in the air by a bull is nothing new for Cory Wall. In fact, being tossed in the air by one particular bull is nothing new, either. The latest time was
.Wall is what's known as a bull fighter. His job is to distract bulls who've tossed bull riders, so the riders can escape.
At a stock show in Fort Worth, Texas, last week, a bull charged Wall and got him with the end of his horns. Wall went a dozen feet into the air, and into a pen.
The rider escaped unharmed, and Wall said he wound up with a bruised knee.
Wall
The Early Show co-anchor Julie Chen Wednesday that he wasn't scared, saying: "It's what they hire me for. It's my job. Some people go and sit behind a desk, and I go out there and protect bull riders."Wall described it as "just another day at the office."
The man he landed on cracked a rib, but is also doing fine, Wall says.
And Wall says he's already back on the job: "I've worked almost 20 performances since then. (At the Fort Worth stock show) we work two performances a day, and we're finishing up this Sunday night."
Wall started fighting bulls in 1989, after attending rodeo school.
"You just get out there," he says, "and you get a set of things you do and don't do, and then you just figure out pretty quick whether it's something you can do for a period of time. And this is my 16th, going on 17th, year. I've had a really good career. And I'm just real thankful for that.
"I come from a real athletic background. This is my way of going from high school athletics to doing something athletically for a living."
Wall has health insurance, but says, "We just try not to use it very often."
He's sustained so many other fractures on the job over the years, Wall says, "It probably would be easier to tell you what bones I haven't broke" than which ones he has.
Wall says that too-close encounter wasn't his first with that bull, and won't be his last.
"I'll see him this week, as a matter of fact," he says. "You know, he's done that to me before. And there's — I'd seen him probably 10 or 12 times. We're probably pretty much even. He's got me a few times and I've got around him a few times, too.
"I know him quite well. So I know what the end of his horns feel like."