It’s a brutal blood sport like bullfightingwhich is also banned in the US.
I think dog fighting is or should be also.
Human savages have a history of fighting
brute animals for their edification like stallions and camels.
Dog fighting is illegal. So is attending a dogfight.
There was a cockfighting ring broken up in Oregon, some while back. The deputy said it wasn’t the dirtbags you’d expect in attendance.
English nobility used to have clandestine entrances to dogfighting/bullbaiting events.
It’s not just “savages. “
I saw my first bullfight in Seville in the summer of 1959. Our guide told us that summer is the time for the rookie matadors to perform since the main season was over and the bulls were too old to put up much of a fight. Even so, the place was packed. After the last fight, our guide led us through an interior corridor on the way to the parking lot and showed us the rooms where Spaniards were butchering the bulls. He said that all the meat was distributed to the local poor. As a 12 year old, I thought that was a good thing.
I remember back in the 60's when the Wide World of Sports would televise bull fighting from Spain. As a kid I never gave much thought to it......
Then back around 1984 my family vacationed in Acapulco. While there, we decided to watch the weekly bullfights they had in a local arena. Halfway thru the first fight, I had to get out of there. There's nothing glamorous about bull fighting, it's just plain slow and torturous butchery of a defenseless animal.......