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Cockfight : For The Love Of The Game

Once considered barbaric and frequently shun upon, cockfighting now is an industry that spans huge markets. And some of them are in just for the love of the sport.

Dr. Simeon Binayug is nearing 60 years old. The conventional grandfather profile fits him like a glove, but not the hair. But ever so often, this regular Joe gives in to frequent hair coloring to conceal his age. But even at fifty-something, he admits he has habits he’s too young to see die.

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Sabong(Cockfight) : The Sport of Kings

Game fowl industry experts answer the million-dollar question: Is there a sure-fire way to breed a champion?

It is believed to be the world’s oldest spectator sport, dating back about 6000 years in Persia (now Iran). Great men in history have been known to participate in it. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson were all cockers. Alexander the Great staged cockfights on the night before a battle to impress courage and valor upon his soldiers.

Today, this sport has been outlawed in most European countries as well as the United States. But breeders of noble feathered gladiators of this sport cannot be dispirited. In fact, they come in droves, even to migrate, in a country that still holds this ancient sport in reverence as history itself- the Philippines.

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