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Match report of Irish staffordshire bull terrier champion Psycho versus English bull terrier champion Stormer (historical interest). .
Hybrid vigour (heterosis) as related to game dogs (battle crosses) and working dogs.
indigenous pit dogs of the British Isles.
Pakistani and English (Indian) Bull terrier / Gull Ter
Firstly I would like to say as the webmaster I find Bear baiting in Pakistan horrific and immoral. Removing a bear's teeth and claws before combat is in my opinion a sick activity and serves no purpose either for testing the gameness of the dogs, or any form of pest control. It has no purpose except for torture of an animal. Although I also condemn the Bear baiting of Elizabethan England at least the teeth of the bear were not removed allowing it to have its basic weapons.
Pakistani dogs.
The Pakistani dog men have a particularly strong link to the Hink's English bull terrier, and many of their dogs are either descended from Hink's dogs but have evolved into separate breeds or remain almost the same as it. There are many in Pakistan and India who say that the Indian Bull Terrier or Gull Ter is actually the original Hink's dog. The resemblance is striking and these dogs were originally imported into this area by British military officers, diplomats or gentlemen from the landed the classes; before the partition. It is interesting to note that there are no brindle bull terrier dogs or are at the least very uncommon. The two top pictures were donated by shah and are in Pakistan.
(picture on bottom left is of full pedigree EBT in Australia taking on very large wild boar single handedly). The picture on the bottom right is of an EBT and APBT fighting in Russia. The English bull terrier is a very popular fighting dog in Russia where it has been game bred for generations unlike the show type in the west that has not been game bred for very many years.
If you would like more information on English Bull Terriers and their sporting uses then I suggest that you get a copy of this book (by clicking on the picture) which has a large chapter on the subject.