Matador to return to ring at age 65

MALAGA, Spain, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- A British man says he is physically capable of revisiting his former glory in a Spanish bullfighting ring at the age of 65.

Frank Evans says while doctor's orders cut short his matador career three years ago, he is fully prepared to revisit the dangerous sport in southern Spain after getting back into shape, The Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper, said Thursday.

"I now feel better than ever and I want to be a bullfighter again. People tell me I am mad but surely that is what such surgery is for -- to allow you to continue living the life you love," he said.

Evans, who began training as a bullfighter at the age of 23, says while most men his age focus their sporting urges on a golf course, he is intent on facing an agitated bull once again.

"Yes I could stick to the golf course but anyone can play golf," he told the Telegraph. "I love bullfighting and I'm good at it."

Evans' attempt in the ring this Sunday comes after the senior citizen underwent both a quadruple heart bypass operation and had a knee replaced with a titanium prosthetic knee, the newspaper said.