Cockfighting is a natinal sport for Filipinos - even here on the island we have a cock-farm. Cockfighting is a very typical sport of cowards and coawards are in abundance here. A typical joke scenario here is the SWAT team or some special toiurist police all running to shelter as soon as the first rain drops fall ...
Hence Filipino enjoy watching others doing hard jobs or fighting - like cockfighting to the death end of a cock