India’s Pro Panja League creates arm-wrestling starsAFP, NEW DELHIAthletes flex biceps before going hand-to-hand in a newly televised arm-wrestling league seeking to take the sporting spotlight in India with a glitzy Bollywood-style makeover. Contestants fight under bright studio lights with a cheering audience as opponents push down the other person’s arm in the Pro Panja League at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Stadium. Farheen Dehalvi of the Baroda Badshahs, left, and Kashmiri Kashyap of the Ludhiana Lions compete in an arm-wrestling bout at the Pro Panja League in New Delhi on Aug. 2. Tawheed Shaikh of Ludhiana Lions, left, and Harman Mann of the Baroda Badshahs prepare for an arm-wrestling match at the Pro Panja League in New Delhi on Aug. 2. “People watch me on TV back home and it has inspired them to go to the gyms and I tell them to come to Pro Panja.”

Source: Taipei Times August 11, 2023 17:43 UTC