Friday, May 17th 08:38 PM IST
Dara Singh IMAGE.
Decades before IPL was born, indeed decades before Kerry Packer launched his cricket circus and decades before satellite television brought WWF and WWE into Indian drawing rooms, Dara Singh was the star in a travelling wrestling show that toured northern and western India year after year.

Posters formed the crux of the communication telling wrestling fans that the wrestling show was soon to come, declaring matches between Dara Singh and his opponents as 'the fight unto death', 'never seen before' and such wonderful hyperbole.

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Decades before IPL was born, indeed decades before Kerry Packer launched his cricket circus and decades before satellite television brought WWF and WWE into Indian drawing rooms, Dara Singh was the star in a travelling wrestling show that toured northern and western India year after year. Posters formed the crux of the communication telling wrestling fans that the wrestling show was soon to come, declaring matches between Dara Singh and his opponents as 'the fight unto death', 'never seen before' and such wonderful hyperbole. [caption id=attachment_375294 align=alignleft width=380