Female camels are the beasts of burden. The male are just too onery.
Do the Camels wrestle with their toes showing?
Asking for a friend.
Does the Camel know what’s at stake?
From what I could tell it's a big deal. In advent of the arrival of the beasts and their handlers, advertising posters are put up liberally. Not unlike our traveling carnivals of days of yore.
When they arrive, the camels are paraded through the streets, to drum up business. They are costumed like regal kings.
When the day comes, an area about the size of a soccer field is marked out, near the town/village. Men gather at the edge. Women far back. Lots of excitement. Than you see a lot of money changing hands......I suspect betting.
A female [in heat?] is brought out and walked in front of the male fighters. Then two by two, the beasts are set upon themselves.
There is a lot of poking and shoving by the handlers. Grunting and neck twisting by the beasts.I'm quite sure PITA would object. The fight is over when one of the camels is brought to his knees by the other. Or runs away, through the crowd.
You do NOT want to be in the way of a fleeing camel and dozens of native onlookers!!!
It is pretty gruesome with all the commotion....like a gladiator fight or bull fight, I guess. It's a cultural thing. I cannot judge.
That is even more tedious to watch than soccer.
I remember being home from college in ‘95 or ‘96 or so over Christmas break, not too long after ESPN expanded to ESPN2. Prime time (8 PM Eastern or so) one night they were showing Camel boxing. They were so desperate for programming they were showing Camel boxing. Of course, that was before they had rights to NFL, all of the bowl games, etc.