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SFL to make India debut today

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Mumbai: India’s first professionally organised mixed martial arts fighting league, the Super Fight League (SFL), promoted by Bollywood megastar Sanjay Dutt and NRI businessman Raj Kundra, will get going here on Sunday.

Kundra, husband of actress Shilpa Shetty and owner of Rajasthan’s IPL team, has got together with Dutt to give Indian mixed martial artists a platform to compete along with talented fighters from different parts of the world. Tomorrow’s event here, will be followed by events in Chandigarh (April 7) and New Delhi (May 6). Based on SFL rules adopted across the United States and other countries that regulate martial arts, SFL fights are contested over three five-minute rounds. It covers six weight classes from feather to heavyweight.

Kundra said India is an action-hungry country and this prompted him to launch the sport here. He said there was huge potential in India for mixed martial arts. (PTI)

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