A sport that's a hybrid of bullfighting and martial arts is becoming more popular in China.

The bullfighters use wrestling and kung fu moves to bring down a bull in the pen.

Many fighters have to train intensively and usually have short-lived careers in the sport.

Although the bullfighters believe their sport is less harmful to bulls than Spanish bullfighting, some animal rights activists say it can still be harmful and cruel.

BEIJING/JIAXING, China (Reuters) - Several times a week, kung fu teacher Ren Ruzhi enters a ring to spar with a bovine opponent around five times his weight and capable of killing him.

Ren's mixing of martial arts and bullfighting worries his mother, but the 24-year-old has never been hurt. Besides, he says, grappling with a snorting bull is exciting.