Skilled arm wrestling league Professional Panja, which can have its inaugural season in July, has signed its first two franchise groups. The homeowners are Punit Balan Studios Non-public Restricted which has acquired the Mumbai franchise and Ned Ventures Led, owned by Gautam Reddy, getting the Hyderabad franchise.
The league was first launched in 2020 by Bollywood actors and producers Parvin Dabas and Preeti Jhangiani. It’s going to have six groups of arm wrestlers from India competing throughout a number of weight classes.
The league can be a 17-day occasion and can be broadcast on the Sony Sports activities Community. It hopes to popularise arm wrestling in India. Balan is a filmmaker and owns groups throughout another sports activities leagues in India. Reddy can be the proprietor of kabaddi staff Telugu Titans.
Punit Balan stated, “It is among the hottest and quick video games internationally. The sport has a novel historical past. I’m glad to be related to them since our group helps non-cricketing sports activities. We wish to give equal significance to all sports activities. We wish to make this league the subsequent massive factor of India.”
Gautam Reddy added, “We now have at all times believed in giving prominence to the regional sports activities in India, like we now have finished with kabaddi and this shares an identical imaginative and prescient. Panja is a sport which is part of Indian tradition and we’re delighted to see it getting the platform it deserves after a very long time.”
“We’re glad to see distinguished companies of such nice caliber and huge expertise associating themselves with the Professional Panja League. We’re grateful to them for displaying their curiosity in arm wrestling. Their presence guarantees a cracking contest within the first season of the league. Mumbai and Hyderabad are two areas that are massively standard amongst arm wrestling followers and we’re assured the 2 groups will make their presence recognized within the first season,” stated the league’s co-founder Parvin Dabas.