{"id":762,"date":"2017-11-05T20:45:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T01:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squirrellips.com\/?p=762"},"modified":"2020-02-24T20:59:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T01:59:06","slug":"tragic-death-rooster-dies-after-getting-knocked-out-in-brutal-cockfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/05\/tragic-death-rooster-dies-after-getting-knocked-out-in-brutal-cockfight\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic Death: Rooster Dies After Getting Knocked Out In Brutal Cockfight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HAVANA, CUBA- Pro gamecock El Gran Pollo died inside the ring last night during the televised <a href=\"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/13\/great-news-sports-fans-bullfighting-is-coming-to-america\/\">sports match<\/a> and spectators are demanding full refunds.<\/p>\n<p>After making a grand entrance into the arena, the flamboyant El Gran Pollo jumped over the ring ropes to start the match, but got his foot caught between them. That&#8217;s when the bird took a nosedive headfirst into the mat and was instantly knocked out. He was pronounced dead by paramedics after they had arrived over an hour later.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_977\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-977\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-977 size-full\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D&#039;http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg&#039; viewBox%3D&#039;0 0 640 360&#039;%2F%3E\" data-src=\"http:\/\/squirrellips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/SquirrelLipsCockfightNew1-min-1.jpg\" alt=\"Two gamecocks fighting inside ring.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Gran Pollo moments after the ring mat knocked him out. In the far corner we see the opponent of El Pollo Rapido already celebrating his controversial win.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Experts are saying that the brutal knockout was an instant KO for the ring mat. Promoters are now toying with the idea of using ring mats as fighters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll call it matfighting,&#8221; promoter Cerdo Gordo said in a Spanish accent as he counted last night&#8217;s winnings. &#8220;Cockfighting&#8217;s getting old anyway and too many anti-violence groups have been burning down our arenas and killing promoters as they leave their houses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At least when a mat gets too old to fight we won&#8217;t have to take it out back and shoot it in the head like we do with the gamecocks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even though cockfighting promoters are seeing green, many spectators are furious over the abrupt match. Shouts of &#8220;slam the other cock&#8217;s head into the mat&#8221; could be heard from within the boisterous crowd of angry animals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This&#8217;s human-shit,&#8221; said irate cockfighting fan Dan Mallard to sports reporters. &#8220;Tickets to that fight cost me a month&#8217;s salary. What am I supposed to tell the wife? Guess I&#8217;ll just have to slam her head into the floor. I mean, there&#8217;s nothing else I can do.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAVANA, CUBA- Pro gamecock El Gran Pollo died inside the ring last night during the televised sports match and spectators<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[173,366,83,63,334,383,64,287],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bird","tag-boxing","tag-chicken","tag-cockfight","tag-murder","tag-rated-bear","tag-rooster","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}