has gambling on the outcome of pit bulldog fights become more common lately?
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if anything its gone down, Its illegal
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UFC and pride.\n1 because I train in a more mma type situation.\n\nand 2\nboxing has become a shadow of what it was, and continues to become so with each passing year.  years ago when the welterweight division was the cream of boxing's talent and there was much competition it was still exciting, but I think that the fighters in ufc and pride are hungrier and looking to make a name for themselves where in boxing the alphabet titles and constant stream of dissapointing fights is not an issue in the UFC or pride.\n\nI think we are seeing the twilight years of boxing as far as popularity goes.
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how can it be fair when the bull never wins??? the fighters hide behind big barriers when it gets too close and when the fighter gets tired they change like a  tag team.  Does the bull have all his little bull friends in a line, i think not!  Does 'he' have a little corner to run to to be safe....noooooo!\n\ni say if you wont ban it, which it shud be haven't we had enough of open cruelty, then have a one on one fight if the bull avoids the mattador then it wins...oh and the bull shud get points too for stamping on the guy....
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ONE of Australia's biggest league clubs, Souths Juniors, has lost its tax-free status after a tribunal found its main activity was gambling rather than sport.\n\nThe court decided its operation of a "miniature Las Vegas" overtook its support for junior rugby league or the NRL's South Sydney Rabbitohs.\n\nThe decision, which is a victory for the taxman, could affect 3000 clubs nationwide as it threatens the privileged tax status of the clubs industry.
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.I was wading the net one day..fell in to the UK.As for bullfighting..sometimes the bull gets the upper hand.
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Not likely.  People seem to enjoy fighting over football as much as fighting over anything else.
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The most common type of sports bet is a wager on the outcome of a single game or contest in which there is usually a favourite and an underdog.\nOne well-known example of a favourite and an underdog scenario was when Goliath met David in battle.\nIn that encounter, Goliath was the overwhelming favourite to win the battle and David was the decided underdog. The odds in that battle we think would have been reflected like this:\n\nGoliath @ 1/10 and David @ 7/1\n\nGoliath in this instance was the odds-on favourite.\nWhen you back an odds-on favourite, the amount you wager exceeds the amount you win. If you win, you'll receive both your winnings and also get back your original stake.\nDavid as the underdog was odds-against.\nWhen you back the underdog, the amount of money you receive should your selection win is greater than your stake (all winning bets return the stake with the winnings).\nUsing the above odds as a guide, to win 1 unit on Goliath, you would need to wager 10 units.\nIf Goliath won the battle and your money was on the giant, you would have received a total of 11 units back (the 10 units you wagered plus the 1 unit you won).\nTo back the underdog David, you would have wagered 1 unit to win 6 units. The winning bet would have gotten you 7 units back in total (the 1 unit you bet plus the 6 units profit you won).
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No. I once studied arcade games and slot machines to see what kinds of color and graphics are used, and I came to the conclusion that people who create the machines are very clever when it comes to color psychology - they try to attract people's attention from clear across a room. Also, the entire concept of gambling is based on variable reinforcement, so it is just human tendency to want to keep performing a certain action because "maybe this time" the reward will materialize. There are people who have a weakness for this, however, and it may or may not run in families. But I think the amount of money spent on marketing is going to attract almost everyone to try gambling once, or at least consider it.
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men are more into sports betting... women are more into slot machines.
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I don't believe any kind of animal fighting is legal in the U.S.\n\nThat doesn't mean that it doesn't happen, just that it's not legal.\n\nAlso, having the dog is not illegal just using it in actual fights is illegal.\n\nCall your local humane society or animal shelter they should have more information.
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It is mainly by how the betting is going, but the first time odds are posted is because handicappers have sat down and crunched stats like who is playing who is injured where are they playing and so on, and the rest... go to vegas and prove your handicapping skills at one of the major casino's and you might get a job at it!
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I don't think boxing is going away as a sport. Not everyone's into ground and pound, however effective that may appear to be in a medium that encourages such tactics.
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It hasn't happened often, but a few years back the Colorado Rockies did it. And some others, too. Scroll down at this link, about midway down.
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Yes a lot of racehorses are being bought for slaughter. Auction houses that are known for selling to "killer  buyers" are a great place to get a great horse/athlete/friend for cheap. There are programs out there that are dedicated to saving these animals before they ever hit the autcion houses. C.A.N.T.E.R. is the most famous. A lot of these horses comeoff the track and are prefectly sound for normal disciplines.
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There are a couple of sites: http://www.thepit.com/  and http://www.beckett.com/  --- looks like you'd have to subscribe to Beckett, and The Pit seems to need registration, at least. \n\nGood luck!\n\n- Stuart
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Brent, \n    I think one thing that may help would be to put a salary cap on the purses, somehow.  I don't have all of the kinks worked out, but if the fighters, were doing it for the championship, and not the money, we might see less fight "dodging" and some better matchups.  Naturally, a great fighter deserves a generous purse, though.    Also, perhaps shrinking the boxing associations from four to two, maybe a world boxing association including all countries, and a United states association.  This would really force the BORING heavyweight division to come up with a true champion, and provide less belt holders and more contenders.  Also, it would make less of a grey area as to who the true champion is.   To follow up on the undisputed champion portion of your question, it seems like when there is a champion, there is ALWAYS a dispute!  It never fails that there is an arguement to bash the legitimacy of the champ.  In my opinion, the Roy Jones Jr. of the 90's was an undisputed champ.  But there was always the question of the quality of his opponents that hung over him like a looming grey cloud.  I think I would go with Bernard Hopkins if he was able to beat Roy Jones Jr.  Actually, that would be a good matchup now!  \n   And yes, boxing today is sad.  It is about the money, why else would PPV be in existance???\n\nSmitty, thanks for the lesson in economics.  What was your answer?
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http://www.roughriderrodeo.com/Past%20RRA%20Champions/Bullriding.htm\n\nits in there