SOME guys just can’t catch a break.

Veteran matador Juan José Padilla was in a bullring in Zaragoza, Spain, on Sunday when the unthinkable happened — again.

Facing off against a giant black bull, the 43-year-old matador, who is known as “The Pirate,” got down on his knees and waved his cape in front of the charging beast.

media_camera Juan Jose Padilla leaves the bullring through the Puerta Grande 'Big Door' after his performance with a Fuente Ymbro's fighting bull on the eighth day of the San Fermin Running Of The Bulls festival in 2013.

The clever animal was having none of Padilla’s shenanigans, however, and charged straight through him, impaling the veteran bullfighter in the left eye socket, according to Yahoo News.

In an oddly lucky twist of fate, the bullfighter did not lose his eye … because it was already gone.

Five years earlier, Padilla fell to the ground in the same bullfighting ring in Zaragoza. The bull that day charged and drove his horn through Padilla’s jaw and out his eye socket. Cameras clicked and the crowd went silent as his eyeball popped out onto his cheek, according to a GQ profile of Padilla.

media_camera Bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla performs with a Fuente Ymbro's fighting bull during the San Fermin Running Of The Bulls festival.

In surgery later that night, Padilla’s eye was removed and his face was reconstructed using titanium plates. He’s worn an eye patch (hence the nickname) ever since.

media_camera Bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla.

This story originally appeared on the New York Post

Originally published as One-eyed bullfighter gored in head — again