| Its ancestry includes the breeds used for bullbaiting and dog fighting. |
| The concept of building a scaffold with three levels of galleries surrounding a circular yard mimicked the arrangement for audiences of existing bearbaiting and bullbaiting houses. |
| Five large grey bears had been caught, and fastened in a pen built for the purpose of confining the bulls, during a bullbaiting. |
| The breed also fought in the later bullbaiting and bearbaiting rings of England. |
| Taverns, Hodges says, were the center of a culture in which cartmen raced their carts each morning on the new, straight streets and amused themselves with bullbaiting, gambling, and drinking. |
