pro wrestling league 2015

PRO WRESTLING LEAGUE 2015

Brief intro…..

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The Pro Wrestling League (PWL) is the initiative of ProSportify owned by Kartikeya Sharma and Wrestling Federation of India, to be held in between 10–27 December 2015 in India. The first season of this league will be among 6 city-based teams, with 66 wrestlers from different countries of the world.

Dabur Chawanprash is the title sponsor of the first edition. The first season became very popular in India.

The winner of the first season was Mumbai Garuda.


CONTENT

1. Format

2. Bidding

3. Teams

4. Schedules

5. Point Table / Performance Table

6. Winners Table


1.FORMAT• There will be Six Teams,

• Each consisting of a total of 1 Icon and 8 other players.

• Among them, there will be 5 Indians and 4 foreign players, consisting of 5 men and 4 women. Out of these 5 foreign players, only 4 can be part of a tie.

• Each tie will be contested based on 7 bouts (and two blocked categories), except for the final, for which all 9 bouts will be played.

• A total of 18 ties (15 league ties, 2 semifinals, and final) will be played.

• There will be 5 weight categories (57 kg, 65 Kg, 74 Kg, 97 Kg, 125 Kg) for men, and 4 weight categories (49 Kg, 53 Kg, 58 Kg, 69 Kg) for women.

• Each team can block one weight category before the bout starts. The league will be played on the 'best of nine', and each bout will have 2 rounds of 3 minutes each, separated by a 90 seconds break


2. BIDDING

The bidding took place on 3 November, where 6 franchises participated. 159 wrestlers participated in the bid, and 101 wrestlers remained unsold.

Each franchise had a purchasing cap of Rs 2 Crore.

One Icon Player was stamped at a base price of Rs 33 lakh. Ukraine’s Oksana Herhel went for the highest bid of the day, and she was bought or Rs 41.3 lakh by the Team Haryana.

Among the Indian wrestlers, Yogeshwar Dutt was bought for Rs.39.70 lakh by Team Haryana, while Sushil Kumar was bought by Team Uttar Pradesh for Rs 38.20 lakh.

The full auction list is available in the Official website


3. TEAMS

In the first PWL season, there will be six Indian city-based franchises, most of them representing the northern-central Indian.

All the Icon Players representing each team are Indian wrestlers, except for the Mumbai Garuda team.

Name of Team State Name of Owner

Amount Spent Name of Icon Player

Mangalayatan University Dilli Veer

Delhi GMR Group INR 1.77 Crore Vinesh Phogat (Woman – 48 Kg)

Uttar PradeshWarriors

U.P. Lotus Greens &Rohit Sharma

INR 1.72 Crore Babita Kumar (Woman – 53 Kg)

Haryana Hammers

Haryana Olive Global & Bupinder Singh

INR 1.96 Crore Yogeshwar Dutt (Man – 65 Kg)

CDR PanjabRoyals

Panjab CDR Group &Dharmendra

INR 1.86 Crore Geeta Phogat (Woman – 58 Kg)

Revanta Mumbai Garuda

Mumbai Revanta Group &Garudacharya

INR 1.79 Crore Adeline Gray (USA-Woman – 69 Kg)

BengluruYodhas

Bengaluru JSW Group INR 1.71 Crore Narsingh Yadav (Man – 74 Kg)


4. SCHEDULES


5. TEAM PERFORMANCES


6. WINNER TABLE

A Fantastic 1st season of PWL has drawn to a close. For their outstanding performances throughout the season:1. Vinesh Phogat & Odunayo have won the Wrestler of the series (Women) Award !! 2. Narsingh Pancham Yadav won the Wrestler of the Series (Men) !!3. Yogeshwar Dutt claimed the Icon Mentor of the Pro Wrestling League award !!

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