Police and politician are also involve in this industry so this makes this thing even harder to stop. Manny Pacquiao, a champion boxer turned politician used to have a gamefowl farm which was too big that a company of goons have to guard it hehe.
this is true that the involvement of Big fishes and politicians makes this gambling famous and untouchable for many years , though we are talking about crypto adoption here yet this may be transform in any time soon.
because like in our government that the online Cock fight had been closed but still there are plenty of operators that runs this and completely operating still .
What happens is that those kind of illegal events are organized regionally, so a central government has a lot of problems trying to eradicate it as the local authorities not only are not very cooperative but they also hinder their efforts, so they can never find the farms in which the animals are kept or the place where the fights are held, which is a shame as cock fights are clearly a case of animal cruelty as animals die or are maimed during those fights.