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Posted on 05/16/2026 8:42:09 AM PDT by DFG
Dodgers pitcher Edwin Díaz has been linked to an illegal cockfighting ring in Puerto Rico, according to a report.
Multiple social media advertisements surfaced from a cockfighting club in Díaz’s native Puerto Rico that featured Diaz’s image, including several wearing a Dodgers jersey, in a report from USA Today Thursday.
The story also cited a March 10 news article from the island’s largest newspaper, El Nuevo Día, that “includes a photo showing Diaz standing in the pit of a cockfighting arena,” evidently during an off-day amid this spring’s World Baseball Classic.
While cockfighting is a centuries-old tradition in Puerto Rico, it was banned there when the United States federal government outlawed the practice in all of its territories in 2019.
Puerto Rican politicians initially tried to defy the ban by adopting carve-outs in their own local laws, PBS reported in 2019. Local clubs, such as the one tied to Díaz, also filed lawsuits trying to get the federal restriction struck down, as noted in the USA Today story, though such challenges ultimately failed.
Still, cockfighting continues as part of the local culture.
The report cited a quote Díaz supposedly gave to El Nuevo Día in its March 10 article, with him saying of cockfighting: “It’s a pastime I’ve followed since I was a child. It’s legal in Puerto Rico, thank God. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be here.”
Both the Dodgers and a representative for Díaz did not respond to requests for comment from The California Post on Thursday.
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Sounds gay
Cock ring fight ? Yeah, it does sound gay.
For dogs, the NFL kicks you out while everyone burns your jersey in the parking lot. What does MLB do?
“Dodgers $69 million star Edwin Diaz linked to illegal cockfighting ring in Puerto Rico”. I guess 69 million wasn’t enough.
Well that disqualifies Puerto Rico from statehood
A boy has to have his hobbies…
What’s his batting average? That will decide if I care that people in Puerto Rico are doing the things they’ve been doing for a long time. I guess I just don’t like chicken
A floating island of...
What was that line again?
Pitcher Edwin Diaz is the Dodgers closer.
I really feel thsis nations around the world are uncivilized and continuing these crude forms of entertainment keeps them so.
We don’t need them they need us and I say forget it.
Independence would be better. Head them off at the pass with those 2 senators crap.
Who cares about cock fighting (except SF gays)? If both are ultimately going to end up on the grill, at least let them fight it out to see who goes first.......
So what? The chickens seem to enjoy it.
I don’t condone it, but a childhood friend’s dad used to raise fighting roosters. He and another guy had a cock fighting event (just the two of them and a few of us teenagers) where the put their roosters against each other. The roosters had long curved spikes on their legs. A fight usually lasted no more than a minute or two. The winner got to breed with a hen. The loser usually ran away or was unable to continue and became chicken dinner.
BTW, is that any more cruel than what they do to the rooster chicks hatched at egg farms?
can you imagine the outrage if people heard about what happened to Christians in the Roman colosseum, or in the future
Christians being thrown to the lions used to be a thing everyone knew.
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