They have to wait until the next round to be caught.
It’s common in cockfighting matches. After the initial match, people use incense sticks to mark the boundaries, then hang coins at each marked round. When the roosters start fighting, they light the incense; when the incense burns down to a certain point and the coin falls, it’s called a “round.” At that point, both sides take their roosters out to give them water, care for them, and comfort them for a few minutes to help them recover, then release them for the next round. The winner is determined when one rooster runs away or dies on the spot. Meanwhile, if a rooster is at a disadvantage, falls down, or is injured and can no longer fight, it just lies there, not dying or running away, so it hasn’t lost yet. However, if it continues to struggle, it will be bitten and kicked by the other rooster and will surely die. If it’s clever enough to lie still, the other rooster will think its opponent is about to die, so it will just stand there and not bite or kick anymore. Thanks to this, when the next round arrives, the owner takes the defeated rooster out to give it water and stitch up its wounds, allowing it to regain its strength. Then the owner would release his rooster into the fighting arena, and often it would easily defeat the other rooster.
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