What is Cockfight?
[[File:Microcosm of London Plate 018 - Royal Cock Pit (colour).jpg|thumb|A cockfight in London]] A '''cockfight''' is a [[blood]] sport between two or more [[rooster]]s that is held inside a cockpit. The combatants, called gamecocks, are specially bred birds. Cockfights are called blood sports by animal welfare and animal rights groups due to trauma inflicted between the roosters. It is illegal in the [[United States]] (and a felony in thirty States). ==References== {{Reflist}} [[Category:Sports involving animals]] [[Category:Crime]] [[Category:Violence in sports]] {{sports-stub}}