Randee Munns fought his first bull when he was 19. Not necessarily on purpose.

A young student at Weber State College at the time, Munns was working a local rodeo, on his horse and working as a pickup man when he was approached by the guy he was helping, Dale Haslam.

“I said, ‘What do you want?’ Dale said, ‘You gotta be the bullfighter.’ I said, ‘Why me? And he says, ‘Cause you’re younger than I am.’”

Back then, bullfighters took on many roles, even acting as rodeo clowns.

“When I started, you were it,” he told the Deseret News. “You were the bullfighter, the clown, you’ve done the (clown) acts, you’ve done everything.”

But the roles changed about 15 years into it, he said, and bullfighters became their own separate category.

But Munns, now 75 years old, continued doing both jobs, a

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