Bull wrestling
Bull wrestling, cow fighting or bull fighting is a non-lethal human-facilitated bloodsport between bulls or cows found in some parts of the world.
Africa
The Luhya community in Kenya practices a bull-on-bull sport. Savika is a bull-wrestling sport practiced in Madagascar's central highlands.Europe
Korida, from corrida, or borbe bikova is a traditional national sport of both Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.Bosnia and Herzegovina
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the fights are most popular in Bosanska Krajina, where the famous Corrida of Grmeč is held. Grmeč, a mountain in the extreme west of Bosnia, is the best-known site of Korida of Grmeč bullfights in the Balkans. These are fights between bulls themselves and there is no death of a bull. The fight is won when the losing bull turns his back and flee from the fight. Fights happen in an empty field, and have been organised on every first Sunday in August for over 200 years, attracting thousands of visitors. The fights were brought about to Western Balkans, mostly Bosnia and bordering Dalmatian Hinterland in Croatia, by the Ottomans from Turkey, where they are popular for hundreds of years.The korida of Grmeč was depicted by the sculptor Slobodan Pejić. The sculpture of two bulls in a fight, made in bronze in 2004, has been compared to a confrontation of the oppressor and the oppressed or of the Bosnian people and the Austrian Emperor.
Similar fights are organized in several places around Bosnia and Herzegovina, such Sanski Most, Cazin, Velika Kladuša, all in Bosanska Krajina, but also in central and eastern parts of the country, such as Vitez and Olovo's nearby villages Čevljanovići and Boganovići.
Croatia
In Croatia, koridas are traditionally organized in Dalmatian Hinterland region.East and Southeast Asia
- Tōgyū, known by some as "Okinawan bullfighting", is the traditional sport, in which two bulls attempt, as in sumo wrestling, to push one another out of a ring. It is still practised in the various places in Japan, such as Niigata, Okinawa and Shimane Prefectures.
- Sossaum is a traditional sport of Korea, in which two oxen are pitted against each other.
- Bullfighting is also observed by the ethnic Hmong/Miao minority in China, Vietnam and Laos. Bulls are selected by age, horn length and size. They are enticed to fight usually after new year's or summer events. They are usually non-lethal events and bulls that carry the opposing bulls will get the most points if it is a draw. The loser is usually the bull that flees first even if winning.
South Asia