Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 27: After making marks in professional wrestling, J&K’s Khali is trying hard to get entry into World Heavyweight Championship for which the trials will be held in mid of this year.
Arif Saleem Bohru, who goes by the ring name of Badshah Khan, played scores of fights to prove his mettle in professional wrestling in India under the patronage of Dalip Singh Rana or the Great Khali, the first Indian to win the World Heavyweight Championship in WWE.
Khan known as J&K’s Khali said that he was the first person from Jammu and Kashmir to train under the Great Khali at his Jalandhar Academy and fight the Indian version of professional wrestling, organized by the former WWE star.
Briefing January 3 – 9, 2021
Incarcerated mainstream political leaders in SKICC that was declared as sub-jail after the abrogation of article 370.
For many, the New Year may not be different from 2020. Jammu newspaper
Daily Excelsior reported
around 100 politicians, political workers, anti-India leaders and OGW’s of militants will face “preventive” detention or will be booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA). The new drive, it said is being launched by the administration to prevent “breach of peace.” Interestingly, these days mainstream politicians are more on radar than the separatists. In the last few weeks, police have already arrested three senior PDP leaders, a day before the counting of votes in DDC polls and one NC leader from south Kashmir, after the declaration of results. The detained leaders, officials said are under preventive detention under section 107/151 CrPC as there were apprehensions of “breach of peace.”
J&K’s Badshah Khan Set To Wrestle In WWE
Shakir Ashraf
SRINAGAR: Arif Saleem Bohru popularly known as ‘Badshah Khan’ is all set to become the first professional wrestler from Jammu and Kashmir to fight in World Wrestling Entertainment’s (WWE) India tryouts scheduled early next year.
Badshah Khan
Arif, who is just 23, has earned the title Badshah Khan from Indian wrestling giant, the Great Khali in whose Jalandhar academy he is currently enrolled.
Already among the top-five pro-level wrestlers in India, Arif will make his debut in the coveted WWE next year if he qualifies the tryouts.
A resident of Neel area of Banihal, Arif is six foot two inches tall. He has already won many competitions at the district and state levels. Today, Saleem is considered to be one of the toughest wrestlers in India having played 100 odd matches with a winning percentage of 85 per cent.