{"id":3784,"date":"2014-12-02T18:32:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T23:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewlawler.com\/?p=3784"},"modified":"2024-12-21T12:08:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T17:08:26","slug":"birdmen-cockfighters-spread-the-chicken-across-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewlawler.com\/content\/birdmen-cockfighters-spread-the-chicken-across-the-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"Birdmen &#8211; Cockfighters spread the chicken across the globe."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3785\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3785\" class=\"wp-image-3785 size-full\" title=\"Cockfighters spread the chicken across the globe.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andrewlawler.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/birdmen-andrew-lawler.jpg\" alt=\"Cockfighters-andrew-lawler\" width=\"750\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fighting cocks kick at each other with the curved knives attached to their feet, on April 12, 2014, in Manila, Philippines. Photo by Luc Forsyth\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The World Slasher Cup is the Super Bowl of cockfighting, a five-day series of 648 matches held in a coliseum in downtown Quezon City in metro Manila. Outside the sleek chrome entrance, a 30-foot-high inflated rooster sways in the hot breeze, advertising a formula feed. Next to the event poster featuring two cocks in combat hangs a bill announcing the Miss Philippines contest, displaying a woman in a teal-blue low-cut dress. Ice Capades just finished a run at the coliseum, and Dionne Warwick will be coming soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/science\/2014\/12\/cockfighting_and_chicken_history_the_world_slasher_cup_in_the_philippines.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Slasher Cup is the Super Bowl of cockfighting,  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Birdmen - Cockfighters spread the chicken across the globe. &#8226; Andrew Lawler<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The World Slasher Cup is the Super Bowl of cockfighting, a five-day series of 648 matches held in a coliseum in downtown Quezon City in metro Manila.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2014\/12\/cockfighting-and-chicken-history-the-world-slasher-cup-in-the-philippines.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Birdmen - Cockfighters spread the chicken across the globe. &#8226; 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