One Way Out

Often banned as inhumane, Cockfighting or sabong (in my native tongue) is nonetheless, one of the oldest and most popular sports in the Philippines. It is a sport where two roosters fight inside a ring or rueda, the intent of which is to subdue the opponent by fatality resulting in the eventual victory of the surviving fighter with metal-blade spurs or tari. In sabong, wages are made on the outcome of the fight on virtually all matches, to which the popularity and long-lived nature of the sport is credited.

Roosters continue fighting because they cannot escape, regardless of how exhausted or injured they become. It is a routine where they are forced to fight or die, and where death is the only way out.