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Indian wrestlers train in 'cauldron' at SAI Centre, manage with 'sub-standard food at messy mess'

Sports Authority of India's Sonepat centre due to delayed renovation of the dedicated wrestling hall. Close to 70 male wrestlers, including country's top free-style and greco-roman exponents, are sweating buckets at the multipurpose hall, which is not fit for training when the mercury is touching an unforgiving 45 degree celsius these days in and around NCR. One of the coaches, supervising the national camp, told PTI that sometimes the temperature inside the multipurpose hall during the training is torturous 39 degrees.

I expect Indian wrestlers to win 8-9 gold medals at CWG 2022, says Yogeshwar Dutt

Yogeshwar Dutt on Friday said he is confident about the Indian wrestling contingent winning 8-9 gold medals at the 2022 Commonwealth Games (CWG) in Birmingham, starting July 28. Ravi Dahiya (57 kg), Bajrang Punia (65 kg), Naveen (74 kg), Deepak Punia (86 kg), Deepak (97 kg) and Mohit Dahiya (125 kg) were selected during the trials to represent the country at the event. In the women's category, Pooja Gehlot (50 kg), Vinesh Phogat (53 kg), Anshu Malik (57 kg), Sakshi Malik (62 kg), Divya Kakran (68 kg) and Pooja Dhanda (76 kg) have been selected for the quadrennial event.

AEW stars to join WWE?: Several wrestlers are considering following Cody Rhodes

Cody Rhodes has been an undeniable success story since leaving AEW for WWE earlier this year.

Brett Favre, wrestlers sued by Mississippi over welfare misspending: report

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India's Greco Roman wrestlers win 3 bronze on opening day of Asian Championship

Asian Wrestling Championship, three of the five Greco Roman grapplers in action, including Sunil Kumar, won bronze medals, here on Tuesday. This is for the second time that Sunil has earned a podium finish at the Asian championship, having won the 87kg title in the 2020 edition. The 23-year-old opened up a huge 5-0 lead early in his bronze medal bout against Mongolia's Batbayar Lutbayar and eventually won by technical superiority.

SAI sanctions Rs 1.28 crore for participation of 30 wrestlers at Senior Asian Championship

Sports Authority of India has sanctioned Rs 1.28 crore for the participation of 30 wrestlers, including Olympic medallists Ravi Dahiya and Bajrang Punia, at the Senior Asian Championship beginning in Mongolia on Tuesday. A total of 20 wrestlers from the men's team across the Freestyle and Greco-Roman categories and 10 from the women's team will participate at the event, which is an exposure competition ahead of the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games.

'It will be painful': Wrestlers hope their sport is not left out of 2026 Commonwealth Games final roster

Commonwealth Games (CWG) to be held in Australia's Victoria state doesn't include three sports that India has regularly fielded its athletes in and also won many medals in. Wrestling, shooting and archery are not part of the initial list of 16 sports announced by the CWG Federation earlier this week, when it revealed Victoria as the host for the 2026 edition. The coaches and wrestlers part of the ongoing men's national camp at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) centre in Sonepat were taken aback by the news. TimesofIndia.com recently visited the camp that's on to prepare for the Asian Championships in Mongolia. "I wasn't aware of this," said Ravi Dahiya, silver medallist (57kg) from the Tokyo Olympics held in 2021, talking to Timesofindia.com

Where Roman Reigns, Cody Rhodes And 5 Other Wrestlers Go After WrestleMania

WrestleMania 38, aka “The Most Stupendous Two-Night Event in WrestleMania History” is in the books, closing the chapter on WWE’s biggest and busiest stretch of the year. But now that the dust has settled, new champions have been crowned, and the world is done reacting to Wee Man body-slamming Sami Zayn and Stone Cold Steve Austin wrestling his first match in 19 years, now seems about the right time to look at some of the most consequential stars of the night and speculate on what’s next for them.

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Indian wrestlers train in 'cauldron' at SAI Centre, manage with 'sub-standard food at messy mess'

I expect Indian wrestlers to win 8-9 gold medals at CWG 2022, says Yogeshwar Dutt

AEW stars to join WWE?: Several wrestlers are considering following Cody Rhodes

Brett Favre, wrestlers sued by Mississippi over welfare misspending: report

India's Greco Roman wrestlers win 3 bronze on opening day of Asian Championship

SAI sanctions Rs 1.28 crore for participation of 30 wrestlers at Senior Asian Championship

'It will be painful': Wrestlers hope their sport is not left out of 2026 Commonwealth Games final roster

Where Roman Reigns, Cody Rhodes And 5 Other Wrestlers Go After WrestleMania