A cockfight is a blood sport between two roosters (cocks), or more accurately gamecocks, held in a ring called a cockpit. The first documented use of the word gamecock, denoting use of the cock as to a `game”, a sport, pastime or entertainment, was recorded in 1646, after the term `cock of the game” used by George Wilson, in the earliest k... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockfight