~Thye are getting a huge amount of money. That's the reason why they are involved
with gambling, not only limited to cockfight but the whole gambling activities
with the involvement of most government officials.
I don't know, does cockfighting attract many gamblers, I mean, worldwide?
There's an article in Bloomberg, saying that
"Online Cockfighting Wagers Rake in Billions in the Philippines". In the article they say that only one groups revenue each month is about 1.5 billion Philippine Pesos($27 million USD), and that's a huge money, but is there another country like the Philippines in this regard?
If you do see or tend to check on this Wiki link then you would see which countries had totally banned out cockfighting and to those countries which
this kind of past time is really that known or really that rampant which you had mentioned that Philippines is really that generating soo much
revenue out of this kind of game or betting.
out from that source link above snipping this word
"
Cockfighting is an ancient spectator sport. There is evidence that cockfighting was a pastime in the Indus Valley civilization."
So it was already an ancient sport. lol