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Today I just wondering if this kind of game is just existed only in the Philippines or in the other country but most of the time is you make a research on it one of the popular gambling of the elders is the cockfight, sometimes the fight can do in any wide places that the fighter chicken can freely move. Most of the time there is derby on it that they can play legally and gather a lot of gamblers just to bet to their favorite fighter.


Some of the places too that are playing cockfight are India, China, Persia, and now is there's a game like this in your country?.

I know of another country which bet on cock fight but they do it only on New Year Eve and a bit before or after Christmas.While I am working in Albania here it is very popular that people in New Year Eve organize seacock fight and not normal cock fights.Sometime they bet on them but most of the time they do it for fun.

I believe we already discussed this here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5184923.0 and here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5131130.0
You may read there that in Phillipina, it's called "sabong," and in Indonesia, it's called "sabung."
I believe cockfighting is everywhere ;D

I think it's illegal in most countries that's why it is not that popular in other countries. But in the Philippines, I think it remains legal because it's already popular for decades, and I think it also becomes a part of the tradition. In addition to that is that the government is also earning from it.

I think most Filipinos have at least one person they personally know that is into cockfighting. And the fact that gamblers would still arrange a cockfighting event in the middle of the pandemic even if it's not allowed, it just shows how popular it is in our country that gamblers would risk their lives for it.

There was already existing thread like this before but if you are asking about inmy country?

Yeah there are Legal Cockfight those allowed by the authority.

And there are also some Guerilla Style of cockfight for those who don't want to pay for gambling taxes and just conniving with those corrupt authority that is back upping them to still operate even if its Illegal .

I don't like organizing such a betting event on animals. It used examples of this kind of happening for cock fight in Turkey. However, the result of hard work by the government of Turkey banned altogether. From time to time, there are illegally organized fight tournaments, but they are always followed by the police.

I don't know, have you watched one of these fights before? You can be completely in horror. I think it should be banned everywhere. In the vast majority of these fights, it results in the death of one of the animals. Moreover, I have to say that the roosters who lost the fight and did not die by themselves were killed by their owners.

Warning: Don't watch this video with your child or if you don't like violance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXK6uog-f6g

The worst part is that people enjoy it ...

no difference on gambling as it also have two side , one is legal and the other is illegal   but cockfight is considered as a form of gambling and not not just a simply hobby of raising cocks  .  if we want to gamble its better that we will only gamble on those authorize gambling places so that we can help our government in the form of paying tax  and not helping those illegal gambling that only wants more money for thier selves  , they do have a protector but only for thier selves while the gambler can still be caught and jailed .

Made a quick list about countries that allow it. Got it from Wikipedia though, so it may actually contain some bits of wrong info here and there.
Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines
Indonesia has it banned but they have religious aspects tied to Cockfighting, so those are allowed.
Spain has it banned except for two regions, Canary Islands and Andalusia.
France has it banned except for a certain region, Nord-pas de Calais.

Of course, other countries where it's banned continue to host a few cockfighting sessions, regardless of consequences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockfight (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockfight)
Well, some people enjoy weird things mate. It's like since the age of violence against each other is over, and literally almost no one would beat up each other in the streets, they went to look for possible substitutes, and cocks were one of the options they found. They're rather easy to raise after all.

Some thread  that discussed about cock fighting specially in the Philippines.

(1) Online Cock Fighting  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5184923.0)
(2) Does your country knows about cock fighting betting? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5131130.0)

And someone was even selling a 'rare' cockfighting blade/knife known as "tari" in local Filipino

[wts] rare antique cockfighting memoribilia including limited edition knife (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5198159.0)

And this is one of the well loved 'sports' in the Philippines, even Manny Pacquiao used to own a lot of cock fighters back in the days. And I'm pretty sure that is not just in the Philippines but other part of Asia and the US. Even top US cock breeders are going in the Philippines to compete against the best of the best cocks/cock breeders.

This shouldn't be allowed anywhere in the first place. The animals most likely consider it as real fight... which makes things look like you(humans) are encouraging them to fight and hate themselves, probably against their will.
They usually avoid conflicts amongst themselves otherwise we will be seeing cocks fighting on their own every time/day.

We humans should actually be helping them live in peace and not fighting themselves

how do people manage to place such bets? how do people find things like that to be good things? honestly i'm very happy that in my country it doesn't have that kind of thing and also my country's law prohibits that kind of thing. and it's very cruel to do that to animals... I saw some of those fights on the news a few years ago and they were shocking videos. for the video that I saw on TV, these kinds of things are very popular in Asia


especially when someone steals someone's girlfriend or boyfriend most of the time always has a cockfight.  ;D

For local or traditional gambling, cock fighting is popular among the people, and they usually bet in a hidden place with some people. They don't gamble in a crowd of people because, in some country, cock fighting is prohibited, and if someone or those people get caught, they will get jail. I think this cock fighting is an ancient gambling game which people play because cock fighting is not available on one or two countries, but many country have this.

Using animals to fight each other and use it as a sports bet can be considered as animal cruelty. But a country like the Philippines legalized cockfight because both losers and winners both benefit. After all, if the losers lost their cock they could use it as a food, and the winners will automatically win a huge prize.

Yes, not only in PH. If you will read the wiki, it will give you the history as well as variations in various countries, including the legality of cockfighting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockfight

And as others have mentioned, this topic has been discussed already in this section.

Animal lovers will fight against this kind of act from those gamblers who uses their fighting cock to gamble, knowing that in most cases either both chicken will die or only one will survive.

There are  countries legalizing this since it's been a part of their societies, it's been embraced by the government to implement taxes instead of keep chasing those illegal derbys, they manage to get decent money from derby operators.

We had similar topics here, and from these topics I learned about cock fighting. It's popular in some countries, it's a blood sport and some people really enjoy watching and betting on these fights. If you check wiki you will see that it's one of the oldest traditions in some cultures. I don't like it, but it's me, and I can't judge people who love this, they are born and raised in cultures where this is just a normal thing for Sunday afternoon.
I don't know is there something like this in my country, if there is I never heard about it. Maybe some tiny communities do this, but it's out of my knowledge. Now in my age I don't think I would try watching or betting on cock fights, it's not for me.

We may have a different view on this but for me putting elephants in the circus and forced to performed in front of a crowd is more cruel than cockfighting because Elephants are not born to perform in circus unlike cocks that they are born to fight. It's their instinct that whenever they see another cock they would fight it anytime of the day.

There will always be a contentions in every sport, specially that involves animals, like in this case, fighting cocks. And I agree that there will be people on the opposite side. Personally, I don't see any issue with it, and I myself have been betting on cock fighting and it was part of our culture. I have nothing against those who opposes it, but then again, we have varied opinions here.

AFAIK, it's the Spaniards that influenced their occupants to have this kind of gamble to have and the latter became the tradition and embraced by most occupants that they have.
Animal activists won't agree to cockfight because they consider it as animal cruelty.

Bets are made on the cockpit and there's no such as online IIRC but if there is then they're already upgrading but most countries won't allow that.

Tradition and became a norm.

well in all EU countries this is completely illegal as all fight between animals!

My 2 cents:
I think this is also something very dismal.
they are "armed" with blade or knife (just look the picture)... why ask to animals to fight and to force them to have injury? It's funny see an animal die? not for me for sure! :)
I can't understand it's pretty far away from my standard. I will never bet in anything of this activity.
Respect the lives (in each form we can see) it's a must.

Well, it did not actually originate in the Philippines and I knew that from the thread that @mu_enrico said. It is forbidden right now but there is what we call "tupada" in our place and that is just a small meeting of people wanting to fight their roosters and bet to themselves. It is illegal so people are actually hiding so they can do some betting.

tupada is where the gambling happen ? or its only a term for meeting on when and where the gambling takes place   and by the way are you from what country  and why cock betting is illegal .

  its sad that they make it illegal when many people are interested on it . why can they just make an agreement and make it legal but only the operators will pay regular fee in return the government will provide some place for them to make it more accesible .

Western countries like to bet in horses. I guess cock fighting is only popular in Asian countries like Thailand and Indonesia.
Because EU countries forbid's fighting against animals you will actually be imprisoned in betting those types of gambling in these countries due to their moral code. It's actually ironic while they murder those innocent chickens.

According to https://tagalog.pinoydictionary.com/word/tupada/

Tupada is illegal cockfighting, and that is in the Philippines. Maybe in other countries, the name will also be different, but that is the same. Maybe it's using involving money for a gamble, so the government decides to forbidden. If cockfighting is not used money, maybe the government will allow, but so far, people still use money in cockfighting.

It is a nice comparison. It just shows that Indonesia is few kilometers below of Philippines only. Many Filipinos love cockfighting specially those who are old. In fact, it is more popular as gambling than poker or physical casino in my country. The addiction of cockfighting gamblers can`t be reached in my country, to the point that it became as meme, parody and other fun stuff because most of the Fathers here are cockfighting gamblers.

If this could be included in gambling site, like sports betting. Many of my countrymen will probably go to the site and bet for their cock. 

Lol those chickens are Breed to fight and for those event and they are not maltreated .
Just like you eating chicken,meaning we must not murder chicken to have foods on our table?

and this cockfight has been on the scene from our ancestral and as a sort of fun.
Sorry it is not forbidden,But because there are social distancing thats why we are now waiting for the government advise when to start fighting again.

I don't think Cockfight exists only in the Philippines, but in almost all countries. Why Cockfight Gambling isn't so popular,
because many countries consider Cockfight illegal, many animal lover organizations oppose fights between animals. Cockfight
also known as blood sport. Because I'm also uncomfortable seeing animals fight with each other until they get injured, even
the chicken died. I have never been interested in gambling that makes animals hurt.

According to my research, it started even during classical times where the Persians brought the cockfighting to the Greeks. There's no recorded final entry on where and when it originated but most experts say it started in Southeast Asia. [1] (http://okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=CO012#:~:text=The%20history%20of%20cockfighting%20goes,it%20originated%20in%20Southeast%20Asia.) It has been all about the betting part on the cockfighting but some are entertained by it as well.

I think I have gotten into a great resource material for cockfighting but the link is already dead. All I found is this archived link with that website [2] (https://web.archive.org/web/20050909012957/http://www.personal.psu.edu:80/users/c/d/cda121/History.html)

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[1] - okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=CO012#:~:text=The%20history%20of%20cockfighting%20goes,it%20originated%20in%20Southeast%20Asia.
 (http://okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=CO012#:~:text=The%20history%20of%20cockfighting%20goes,it%20originated%20in%20Southeast%20Asia.)[2] - https://web.archive.org/web/20050909012957/http://www.personal.psu.edu:80/users/c/d/cda121/History.html

Backyard cockfighting is called tupada in our country, very popular here in our country in fact cockfighting are held in big coliseum. my friend even called cock fighting bettors as honest bettors, because you can make a bet from a person across the arena by sign language only and they never miss payment, if you tried to escape you will be ban from the place.

The legal ones are those that has permit on the local government but those who just fight elsewhere without proper approval of the mayor or police it considered illegal; backyard cockfighting. There still has who arranged a cockfights in my area but it's too rare to be flocked by people they are mostly arranging on a remote one where authorities will not make them too easy to catch, funny how it was but there's still who are caught on act and even fined for thousands of pesos on it.

There's still a cockfighting fad right now and it goes online and the cockfighters here are really loving it, you may visit https://www.sabinginternational.com. To be able to play or watch the live game you have to have a balance on your account and to be able to bet too. The registration is just easy though even right now I haven't cash in an amount yet maybe when boredom strikes and I have some balance on my GCASH.

You can't integrate the 'provably fair' point in the cockfighting, so I'm skipping :D

Plus, it's illegal in most places.

Yes it's illegal but people can play and bet on it just anywhere and the authorities will have a hard time finding them unless they caught them in the act, people rich or poor can play this cockfight, I read that politicians are betting millions, this is a multi-million dollar business in some countries, I think we have a thread about cockfighting online betting although also illegal many are subscribing in those channels.

That's not entirely accurate. There are also countries in the EU with exceptions, where cock fights are territorially allowed, for example for traditional reasons like in the region around Nord-Pas de Calais. There are similar regulations in Spain and I think even in Great Britain.

I see it the same way, would never watch such a fight and certainly not bet on it. The fact that this is still seen in a different way today can be seen for example in Spain, where bullfights are still very popular.

You need to have a big heart to watch this game as his game bring a blood bath and i think it should be banned. The result of a game is decided when one cock dies or is badly injured. How cruel is that  ???
This game is most popular in Philippines, Indonesia and also India but i think these governments should take steps to ban it permanently.

Cock Fight is popular here in the Philippines for some of the people here but most of the time it doesn't really involve some cryptocurrency or bitcoin. Everything is done in fiat or physical money. But its really great sport for some of the people where they really taking care of their cocks so that it is available to fight its opponent. Some of my relatives are getting 100$ up in just 1 fight, its already involve a big amount of money so if continue to grow maybe the government might accept this kind of gamble since it might be illegal for some places.

Animal fighting is now getting more stricter and many countries have banned it. Now with the various NGO and the protection of animals the laws are very strict and also I guess the bull fight in Europe has also being banned in some cities. Now only thing it may happen illegally in some place where people may bet privately.

Cockfighting is only legal in a few countries throughout the world it seems, and I am surprised to see countries like Spain and France still allow them, but I guess if you can kill bulls for sport in Spain, chickens are not more difficult to allow;)

Any kind of blood sport is wrong I believe. Even though my tradition also saw it happening. No suffering for our entertainment.

Few years back we have many fights like this mean Cock fighitng Doge fighting and few others but due to this blood bath and many other problems many NGO's start protest against this all so government ban this all now we are not able to have this all otherwise this was one of biggest fun here in our local areas.

I believe that this is somehow luck related game but if you have a rare breed kind of roosters in your lawn then the luck is mostly in favor with you. I know it's illegal in some places mostly in the crowded city but this kind of gambling is very famous to the elders that the betting amount sometimes would exceeded to $1000 or more. I don't think this kind of gambling would happen within the city, it must be somewhere far from it or an underground gambling lair.

Well, I assumed that you are coming from the country of the Philippines which is cockfighting is a very common and legal game.
This game also has known as a bloody sports game and has been around for how many years even in the ancient people they are doing this as a means of the entertainment game. But I don't like this kind of game, because it is considered animal cruelty which abusing animals. The reason is right, they were born to fight and ready to die, but they belong to animals that should not involve in any violent death.

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Indeed, no means for good but they were still considering it. In the meantime, cockfighting in the Philippines was strictly prohibited amid COVID 19 which is to follow the pandemic protocol, mass gathering.

It's actually a popular game on some of the Southeast Asian countries AFAIK, though it is prevalent in Philippines, especially in provinces wherein there are large stadiums built for the sole purpose of holding a cock fight. I myself was into it for some time in the past but after several years, I can't help but be ashamed of myself for enjoying such a cruel sport for animals. But I guess that's just how the game goes and it opened up a lot of opportunities and jobs for some people. Several farms have been created for breeders of top-of-the-line roosters just to fight for their masters, and while it is cruel to the animals, it is a forgiving industry to those who live with and by it--the small workers of the farms and the organizers and people on the cock fight events.

This is one of the weirdest threads I've seen. Cockfights used to be a thing when the world didn't have standards.

Maybe they're still a thing in some countries but I doubt they're widely accepted. Owning animals as pets now is a much more widespread practice as the world's living standards have increased. many people have developed adoration for animals and even if it's now legal, the controversy around cockfights would make it near impossible to start a business around it.

It's really weird to see such thread in the bitcoin forum too. I guess some twisted mind might be thinking bitcoin is fitting to cockfights? If you really felt the need to modernize payments over gambling for a cockfighting ring, I guess you could just introduce bitcoin to it against cash. But really I don't see any benefit in that. This type of fight is only ran by underground rings and bettors do it in person. The reason is that if would be easy to fix otherwise. Roosters don't have an established record or reputation. They have no reasonable incentive in winning as a human would for say, money rewards.

The animals are thrown in the pit by humans and also agitated by the ringleaders. The match could be fixed in ways a person watching from home couldn't even notice. And for all we know the roosters probably ruined in a very inhumane way after a fight. So bitcoin would probably introduce no benefits to such transactions. In theory it could allow gambling from home over an illegal or underground ring. But nobody would want to do that I guess.

The operation would still have to remain underground and it would just overly complicate things over what would be a tiny crowd interested to bet on this obscure thing anyway. Who would go over the trouble of going in the dark web just so the can bet on cockfights from home for example? It's just peculiar to even think of.

TL;DR bad idea. Please don't do cockfights. If you do it anyway, I see no benefit in using BTC.

In Nigeria, cock fight isn't popular among the people but we often see some northerners doing this on the parade ground in Abacha Barack. Although, the crowd isn't much like when there's a ram fight competition between competitors. The bottom line in all this is: animal fight isn't illegal nor legal in our country but not popular among her citizens.