Sports heroes on parade: Cy Young award winner Pedro Martinez at a cockfight

[Amerigo Vespucci]

VIDEO at the URL below:

Pedro and the Cockfight -- The Horrifying Video

Posted Feb 7th 2008 6:14PM by TMZ Staff



TMZ has obtained the video of three-time Cy Young award winner Pedro Martinez at a cockfight with Hall of Fame pitcher Juan Marichal in the Dominican Republic. Did Michael Vick not teach us all a lesson?

http://www.tmz.com/2008/02/07/pedro-and-the-cockfight-the-horrifying-video/

The video shows Mets star Martinez and Marichal serving as "soltadores" -- the people who release the animals into the death ring. As the fight goes on -- which we have chosen not to show -- Martinez and Marichal can be seen in the audience, smiling and laughing.

Cockfighting is legal and popular in the Dominican Republic.

It's unclear whose rooster won, but really -- does it matter?