Old video of Indian women wrestling bout is passed off as an RSS member taking on Pakistani wrestler - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
July 23, 2021
A post accompanying a video of two women in a free-style wrestling bout is being shared with a claim stating that Sandhya Padke (in saffron) of Durga Vahini, RSS defeated a Pakistani wrestler, who challenged the crowd to fight her. Through this article, let’s fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: Video of Sandhya Padke (in saffron) of Durga Vahini, RSS taking on a Pakistani wrestler, who challenged the crowd to fight her.
Fact: The video actually shows Kavitha, former Haryana police officer, and power- lifting and MMA champion taking on Bull Bull, the first professional woman wrestler from India, upon the latter’s challenge to the crowd to fight her. Neither of these women are associated with Pakistan or Durga Vahini, RSS. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
Upon internet search with relevant keywords, we found that the same video was shared by former WWE wrestler Khali (Dilip Singh) on his official Facebook account back in 2016. The post identified the woman (in black) who can be seen challenging as Bull Bull, and the other woman (in saffron salwar-kameez) as former Haryana police officer, and power-lifting, MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) champion Kavitha and not Sandhya Padke as claimed in the post.
A further search yielded us a 2016 news article that reported the same video. Even this article identified both the women as Bull Bull, the first professional woman wrestler from India, and Kavitha, former Haryana police officer, and power-lifting, MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) champion. Another news article that reported the video also reiterated the same regarding the identity of the women. However, neither of these news articles associated any of these women with Pakistan or RSS.
In another video, Bull Bull (in black) can be seen taking revenge on Kavita Devi. Hence, all these pieces of evidence suggest that neither of the women is associated with Pakistan or RSS. For more clarification regarding the issue, FACTLY has written to Continental Wrestling Entertainment, and this article will be updated upon receiving a response.
To sum it up, an old video of Indian women wrestling bout is passed off as an RSS member taking on a Pakistani wrestler.