As far as I know, they are illegal if people will not be doing that on a licensed cockpit,......
No, you can't apply that rules in the pandemic, not only cock fighting is not allowed but all sort of gambling as it gathers masses that would be prone to passing the virus among the people. So even if you do in a legal venue but the act itself is prohibited, you are still doing an illegal activity.
I agree but there are those people that do meetups(tupada) to cockfight in some places here.
Tupada is illegal and the fact that we are still in a pandemic means that it will be more of a hefty payment. I don't know what's going on with them since they are afraid of the virus but not afraid to do these meetups(tupadas) with other people that might carry the virus.
Adrenaline rush is the reason why they don't care if they are doing illegal. I mean, they all know that they might get caught so automatically they'll have their adrenaline rushing through their bodies while they are conducting their cock fighting scenario. About the COVID-19, I think they are just too confident that they will not get infected by the disease because there are no active case here in our baranggay (who knows).