New Delhi: Sanjay Singh, president of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), said the Wrestling Champions Super League, established by former wrestlers Sakshi Malik and Geeta Phogat, is like “people organising dangals” and the federation has no role in it.
Dangal is a type of wrestling competition organised at a small level and held locally.
“That might be their personal thing like people organise dangals. WFI has no role in it, and we don’t support such leagues,” the WFI chief told IANS.
Rio Olympic bronze medallist Sakshi and 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Geeta shared a joint statement on social media platform X on Monday. Paris Olympics bronze medallist wrestler Aman Seherawat has also joined the duo in their new endeavour and extended his full support.
“The two of us have come together to create the Wrestling Champions Super League (WCSL). The WCSL, a world-class international league, will skill and strengthen our wrestlers to dominate the sport globally by taking on the world’s best in a hyper-competitive, expertly supervised environment with best-in-class support systems in place,” the statement read.
“We are delighted that Aman shares our vision and is joining us on this journey.”
“This league is a very commendable initiative that will help Indian wrestling greatly, and therefore, I want to be a part of it and support it fully”, Aman said.
The wrestlers expressed their desire to work closely with this bright young star of Indian wrestling and termed their league a national mission.
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–IANS
