A video showing one woman wrestler, allegedly from Pakistan, challenging the audience to fight her in the ring, is being shared on social media. In the same video, another woman from the audience accepts the challenge and steps into the ring. And it is claimed that the woman who accepted the challenge is Vijaya Lakshmi from Tuthukudi in Tamil Nadu.
The post reads: A Pakistani lady boxer after winning the match in Dubai challenged with pride for anyone from India to come forward to defeat her. A lady spectator — Vijaya Lakshmi, from Tuthukudi in Tamil Nadu — freely moved to the ring with determination and accepted the roaring challenge. See the scene.
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the post, and found it to be false.
Extracting keyframes of the viral video and putting them through Reverse Image Search, we found the same video uploaded on a YouTube channel, dated June 17, 2016, with a title: “Desi Girl in WWE Ring – What a move by Punjabi Girl.”
We also found a screengrab of the video in a report by India TV News, dated June 17, 2016, with a headline: “Watch: Punjabi woman knocks down pro-wrestler like a BOSS!”
The same video was also found on the official YouTube channel of Continental Wrestling Entertainment, which was launched by the Indian wrestler, The Great Khali, in 2015.
The YouTube video goes with a title: “KAVITA accepted the open challenge of BB Bull Bull.”
Who are Kavita and BB Bulbul (BB Bull Bull)?
BB Bull Bull: She is the first professional woman wrestler from India who emerged from the Continental Wrestling Entertainment (CWE), a wrestling academy in Jalandhar. In an interview, dated 2017, she told that her real name is Sarabjit Kaur. See the interview here.
Kavita: She is an Indian professional wrestler, currently in WWE under the ring name Kavita Devi, who performs on their developmental territory NXT. Devi is the first female professional wrestler of Indian nationality to wrestle in WWE. Read more about it here and here.
Hence, from the above information, it is clear that the viral video is being shared with a false claim.
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