Video shows the moment when Fandiño, 36, was gored by a bull after he tripped on his cape. The bullfighter then fell to the ground, where the bull hit him again. Other bullfighters quickly picked up Fandiño and removed him from the bullring, the video showed. He had already performed in a previous fight.
Fandiño was born in Orduña, in the Basque Country. His official biography says he dressed in the traditional bullfighter costume for the first time in 1999 and debuted as a picador in 2002. By 2011, he was performing in important bullfighting events across Spain.
Spanish matador Iván Fandiño performs a pass with a Baltasar Iban bull on Saturday.
Fandiño gets tripped up in his cape on Saturday. The bull gored him after he fell.
Both professional bullfights and bull running events remain popular in Spain, especially in the summertime.
Spanish towns hold annual summer festivals in which bulls dash after humans. These events gained worldwide fame after author Ernest Hemingway wrote about one in his 1920s novel "The Sun Also Rises."
CNN's Artemis Moshtaghian and Florencia Trucco contributed to this report.
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