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
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.
