The determined creatures fought savagely for an hour in Zambia's South Luangwa National Park – with both walking away bearing dreadful injuries.
As the lion clawed and bit his prey, the buffalo refused to retreat, goring the big cat with her huge horns.
Matt Armstrong-Ford, 25, from Eastbourne in East Sussex, who works for Shenton Safaris as a guide and camp manager, spotted the bloody battle.
He said that the six-year-old lion, suffering from the skin condition called mange, had become detached from his pride and was camped out near a watering hole.
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