Honestly some people here in my country have the mindset that Cock fighting is a business from them and yes we can not deny the fact that they are earnings thounds or even millions, cause reason of when they are participating a big event then their cock is the champion then their name is become popular band once it will happen some gambler buy their rooster a big amount of money in order to have the same breeding. Which is the champion will take those opportunity to sell their rooster even though it's over pricings.
Is gambling legal in your country or illegal? I don't know any joy that's in seeing animals fight and hurt each other just because you want to make money. How will you force animals to fight each other? Every government should just make activities like this illegal, and anybody caught participating in an event like this should be properly punished. I'm sure if there are strict rules, then it's going to limit people using animals to fight and gambling on them. Some people are just heartless, most of those animals do bleed, and some might even die due to pain. I also blame people who are always standing and looking at people using animals to fight, they are also supposed to be punished. How will you end up having joy when you are seeing animals being maltreated? It's totally wrong.
Honestly there are legal and also there are illegal, some city here in my country have a arena for cockfighting which is they offer big amount of championship reward and it's called Derby. Which is many big-time gamblers who join that competition. But also there's an illegal cockfighting which is during fiestival some small time gamblers want to test their cock and rise for a fight against other small time gamblers which they didn't get a permit and that's the reason why they chase by the Police.