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Doping fighting cocks - video unmasks dark underbelly of popular Thai country sport

 

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Picture: Thai Rath

 

UDON THANI: -- Thai Rath reporters have looked into what lay behind a widely shared video of a man being mercilessly kicked at a Cock Fighting meeting in Udon Thani at the weekend.

 

The video showed a man named later as Thanaphon, 54, being attacked by a group of men. One angry woman said that he would be dead if he had tried that elsewhere.

 

The man had been caught doping a fighting cock using a liquid in a syringe. Lots of the dope was found in a Vios belonging to the man nearby.

 

A man called Pornthep Buapa, 49, who is the local "poo yai baan" (village headman) said that he runs the cock fighting facility and everything is legal.

 

He said that when the man was caught doping a cock before a fight many irate men attacked him. He said that the dope was powerful and would ensure that a cock lost a fight due to lack of energy.

 

He said he had been powerless to stop the beating.

 

Cock fighting is well known to feature large amounts of gambling and is a very popular sport particularly in the Thai countryside. Fighting cocks can be worth as much as a million baht each for prized specimens.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 
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4 hours ago, webfact said:

He said that the dope was powerful and would ensure that a cock lost a fight due to lack of energy.

My Cock don't need dope to ensure loss of a fight due to lack of energy!!

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Happens worldwide with horses and greyhounds, just the scale is different. If it was done for sporting purposes rather than for gambling (which is is illegal but seemingly tolerated for Muay Thai plus every other "sport" here) then no one would bother with doping.

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Happens worldwide with horses and greyhounds, just the scale is different. If it was done for sporting purposes rather than for gambling (which is is illegal but seemingly tolerated for Muay Thai plus every other "sport" here) then no one would bother with doping.

Gambling is "legal" on muay thai and horse racing in Thailand. Thats why it happens so open in muay thai stadiums.

And the fact most stadiums are police or army owned might have something to do with it.
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