A Louisiana senator is opposing a bill that would close loopholes in a state cockfighting ban, saying it threatens the legitimate, less bloody sport of "chicken boxing."...

Guillory represents an area of rural Louisiana that fought to keep cockfighting legal prior to the ban. He said chicken boxing is a sport that uses some of the paraphernalia involved in cockfighting, but he did not specify what paraphernalia that was, or how the sport was any less violent or deadly than cockfighting.

"I have no knowledge whatsoever on chicken boxing so I cannot speak to that," Morrell said. "I have never heard of that. It sounds like something to circumvent cockfighting."

Guillory replied, "There is a legitimate sport known as chicken boxing. It has nothing to do with cockfighting, and it is clear that this bill would interfere, would criminalize that legal enterprise."