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| Haryana woman, Kavita Sharma, who defeated Bull Bull in professional wrestling in viral video took up weightlifting when she was 20. |
Haryana's weightlifter Kavita achieved instant social media fame after a video showed her - dressed in salwar kameez - bringing down BB Bull Bull, said to be India’s first professional woman wrestler.
According to the legend, Bull Bull issued an open challenge at Jalandhar after a match for anyone in the crowd to get into the ring and fight her.
Kavita stepped into the ring and defeated Bull Bull with ease.
NewsCrunch maintains that the video was an amateurish promo released by Continental Wrestling Entertainment (CWE), a professional wrestling academy set up by the former WWE fighter The Great Khali.
The video, nevertheless, turned Kavita into a celebrity overnight though not much was known about her except that she was listed as a star student at CWE website.
Dainik Bhaskar has stepped in to fill in the gaps.
The 33-year-old Haryana woman, Kavita, took up weightlifting when she was 20. She seems to have excelled in it as weightlifting helped her get into Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) as a constable in 2008 under the sports quota.
Now, we know that SSB was created after the Chinese debacle in 1962. It is a specialised force that works with RAW and is deployed at border areas.
She was not happy being just a constable and reportedly there was a promise that she would be promoted soon, When that did not happen, she reportedly quit in 2010.
Her husband is a basketball player and both met at a sports camp and fell in love They have a son, with whom she lives in Jalandhar, where CWE is based. Her husband also works for SSB.
She has a brother, a businessman, who encouraged her to try her luck in professional wrestling.
By the way, Khali has reportedly given Kavita, a new name – Hard KD.