NEW DELHI – Athletes flex muscled biceps before going hand-to-hand in a newly televised arm-wrestling league seeking to take the sporting spotlight in otherwise cricket-mad India with a glitzy Bollywood-style makeover.
Contestants fight under bright studio lights with a cheering audience as opponents push down the other person’s arm in the Pro Panja League (PPL) at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Stadium.
The Indian Arm Wrestling Federation launched in 1977, but the sport, known as…
