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I think cockfighting should be legal.
Do you argue from libertarian grounds, that the government has no Constitutional authority to regulate this kind of private activity...

...or are you also a proponent of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? :o)

From www.examiner.com (6/19/09):

Early last month, the New Mexico Court of Appeals upheld the state's law banning cockfighting.
Less than a week later, New Mexico's cockfighters, lead by the New Mexico Gamefowl Association, filed a $77M class-action lawsuit in Federal District Court in Las Cruces (NM).
The suit alleges that the state's criminalization of cockfighting violates the cockfighters' civil rights.
In 2007, New Mexico became the 49th state to enact a law which made cockfighting illegal (Louisiana became the last in 2008). Amendments to Section 38-19-01 eliminated Subsection K excepting cockfighting from the definition of animal cruelty. Moreover, the amendment to Section 38-19-9 created a criminal penalty for anyone convicted of cockfighting.
Law enforcement officials believe that cockfighting continues unabated due to the fact that it is considered to be a misdemeanor. Moreover, officials believe that New Mexico cockfights attract gamblers and spectators from the four out five neighbor states where the practice is a felony.
Shortly after Governor Richardson signed the law into effect, cockfighting proponents filed suit in the state's court. The trial court rejected the challenge and upheld the bans on all grounds ruling both that the Plaintiffs lacked standing and that the challenged statute was constitutional.
The proponents of cockfighting argued that 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the American-Mexican war, conferred a "cultural" right to engage in cockfighting...

I raised chickens. Unless you desex your roosters one day you'll wake up to a yard full of dead young roosters.

There can be only one.

On the other hand a really good bantum rooster with 2 inch natural spurs can usually kill another animal, even a housecat, in just a few seconds.

There's no sport in that. I used to walk through the neighborhood with my rooster mounted on my shoulder like he was some kind of hawk and the animals would run and hide from him.

Here's what the pros in the business of fighting chickens do ~ they'll find ways to mail them for free. Was a time when they'd use Express Mail, and if the rooster arrived groggy or injured, they'd refuse to pick him up, or pay the postage.

They don't care about the animals with the result that they end up turning them into garbage.

So much for the chicken fighters.

They're mostly of a single ethnic group too. If they really want to fight chickens they and their customers should GO BACK HOME.

Frankly, the penalty for fighting roosters in this country should be 50 head slashes with a straight razor.