Wrestling

This was a development waiting to be formalised once United World Wrestling on February 13 lifted the suspension of the Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh-controlled Wrestling Federation of India. The Indian Olympic Association on Monday dissolved the ad-hoc committee for wrestling, stating "there is no further need" for it to continue after revocation of the suspension on the national federation, which now gets complete administrative control of the sport.

Jun 27, 2019 10:06
SHANGHAI: WWE and sports content streaming platform PP Sports have extended their partnership with a new multi-year agreement to continue delivering WWE’s weekly flagship programming live and in Mandarin across China.
Jun 21, 2019 17:06
MUMBAI: United World Wrestling (UWW) and India-based full-service sports business company Sporty Solutionz have entered into an understanding to promote the sports of wrestling in the Indian subcontinent.
Jun 19, 2019 15:06
NEW YORK: WWE and the Harvard Business School have announced that a new case study on WWE will be offered this fall to second year MBA students. WWE announced: "The prestigious Harvard Business School is offering a case study on WWE as part of Anita Elberse's course 'The Business of Entertainment, Media and Sports', beginning this fall.
Apr 26, 2019 15:04
NEW YORK: WWE released their full first quarter 2019 financial results Thursday. Revenues for the quarter were $182.4 million, down from $187.7 million in the same quarter last year. The company reported a net loss of $8.4 million as against a profit of $14.8 million in the first quarter of 2018. This decrease was primarily driven by the drop in live event revenue and lower merchandise sales.
Apr 16, 2019 15:04
MUMBAI: After "testing the waters" with WWE's tentpole property WrestleMania, Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) has announced Tamil and Telugu language feeds for WWE’s leading bread-and-butter properties RAW and SmackDown LIVE. Fans can now tune in every week to SONY TEN 1, SONY TEN 3 and SONY SIX channels for English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu feeds for WWE RAW and Samoa WWE SmackDown LIVE.
Apr 08, 2019 18:04
MUMBAI: WWE announced that WrestleMania 35 broke the record for MetLife Stadium’s highest-grossing entertainment event. WWE’s annual pop-culture extravaganza grossed $16.9 million, surpassing the venue’s previous record of $12.3 million set by WrestleMania 29 in 2013 as a sold-out crowd of 82,265 fans from all over the US and 68 countries converged on MetLife Stadium.
Apr 05, 2019 17:04
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Networks India Private Limited (SPN), the exclusive broadcast partner for WWE in India, Friday announced the launch of its new campaign ‘#WWEKAMAHAYUDH’ ahead of WrestleMania 35 this Sunday.
Apr 02, 2019 17:04
NEW YORK: WWE has announced that the first-ever women’s main event of WrestleMania featuring Ronda Rousey (Raw Women’s Champion) vs. Charlotte Flair (SmackDown Women’s Champion) vs. Becky Lynch will now be a “Winner Takes All” match for both the Raw and SmackDown Women’s Championship titles.
Mar 30, 2019 13:03
NEW YORK: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) chairman Vince McMahon has made a move to further inject more investment in his company Alpha Entertainment, which owns the XFL, the professional American football league that is bring set up to rival the NFL, Bleacher Report reports.
Mar 20, 2019 16:03
NEW DELHI: The Sports Authority of India (SAI) Tuesday announced that wrestler Ritu Phogat, the Commonwealth Wrestling Championship gold medal winner in 2016, has been removed from the government’s latest, revised Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS).