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Cock Fighting? The Chinese laugh in your general direction. But for about 5,000 yuan a year (about $620), you too can be a leading trainer and breeder of Fighting Crickets. And, yes… There is gambling involved. From the Shanghai Daily:

“No money is involved in my cricket raising,” he said. “I welcome people to fight the crickets in my house and I really enjoy the fun, but gambling is forbidden.”

“This is the golden season for us cricket fans,” said Cai Aoying, a professor at Shanghai International Studies University. “We have dozens of cricket fights and some games are between professors from Jiao Tong and Fudan universities, but no one bets even 1 yuan.”

Li set up the “Shanghai Cricket Team” to participate in the national cricket fight match. The team won the gold medal at a championship in Suzhou in 2003 and took home the silver medal last year.

Champion Fighting Crickets. That rules so hard, we can barely even keep our dollars in our pockets. We need pictures, or video, or a link to an offshore account where we can lose some money on this thing. It just sounds so freaking spectacular. They’re fighting bugs, and bugs have exo-skeletons, so it’s basically miniature armored monsters doing damage. Please send us more info—tips@oddjack.com—for the love of god, please.

Cricket lover avoids gambling [Shanghai Daily]
Chinese Cricket Culture [Insects.org]