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 read: துபாயில் நடைபெற்ற, பெண்களுக்கான மல்யுத்த இறுதி போட்டியில், பாகிஸ்தான் வீராங்கனை வெற்றி பெற்றார். பின் அவர் மைக்கை பிடித்து, “”என்னோட போட்டியிட எந்த இந்தியப் பெண்ணும் தயாரா இருக்கிறீர்களா? அப்படி யாரேனும் தில் இருந்தால், என்னோட போட்டியிட வாருங்கள்! அப்படி யாரேனும் ரோசமுள்ள இந்திய பெண் இருந்தால் , (சிரித்தபடியே ) மேடைக்கு வாருங்கள் “” என சவால் விட்டார். அப்போது பார்வையாளர் பகுதியில், மல்யுத்த போட்டியை காண வந்திருந்த, துபாயில் வசிக்கும், தூத்துக்குடியை சேர்ந்த விஜயலக்ஷ்மி என்ற பெண் கையை உயர்த்தி, போட்டிக்கு தயார் எனக் கூறி, மேடைக்கு வருகிறார். பின்னர் நடந்ததை நீங்களே பாருங்கள் !! Jai Bhaarath ! Jai Tamilnadu !!
(English Translation: A Pakistani woman won the women’s wrestling final in Dubai. She then grabbed the mic and asked, “Any Indian woman ready to compete with me?” If anyone like that, come and compete with me! If there is any Indian girl like that, come on stage (smiling).” At that time, a woman named Vijayalakshmi from Thoothukudi who had come to watch the wrestling match in the audience raised her hand and came to the stage saying she was ready for the match. Then see for yourself what happened!! Jai Bhaarath! Jai Tamilnadu !!
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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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