King Kong (standard:non fiction, 1047 words)
Author: Juggernaut	Added: Apr 28 2013	Views/Reads: 2590/1805	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
The first play book on wrestling was written in ancient India. It was a simple plan, create a hero and a villian. To date same formula is used in wrestling.

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imagination and total exaggeration, none of the students ever saw a 

match between King Kong and Dara Singh, it was all verbal duel flared 

up between the rival students that led to gross exaggerated figures 

attributed to the wrestlers. 

King Kong's wrestling career came to a sudden ending not in the 

ring but from a car accident. With no flamboyant villain to fight to 

draw crowds, Dara Singh created not one but several villains to fight 

in the movies and became a popular movie star in dozens of movies. 

Later he became a respected statesman politician. 

Growing up, Juggernaut always wanted to watch a wrestling match 

particularly between King Kong and Dara Singh but Juggernaut's over 

protected parents never allowed him saying it was socially 

unacceptable. Watching wrestling then was considered as ghastly 

entertainment left for social under class. 

While attending graduate school in Trinidad, Juggernaut came 

across a flyer on the campus on an upcoming wrestling match between the 

great black Trinidad wrestling champ Ray Apollan and Singh, a wrestler 

from India.  For Juggernaut it was a great opportunity to see a 

wrestling match for real. An Indian name like Singh in wrestling stands 

for guaranteed good performance. On the night of wrestling match, 

Juggernaut went out searching for the venue in Tunapuna not too far 

from the university campus only to find a small ring erected in the 

middle of a side street in a residential area.  The crowd was small 

with more blacks than Indians. Singh, the Indian wrestler with a turban 

and short and sturdy Ray Apollan appeared comical. 

At the ring of the bell, Singh ploughed into Apollan like a 

boar, but Apollan caught Singh in a head lock and spun him around 

dislodging his turban exposing his long hair. In the next move, Apollan 

started jumping up and down screaming with pain when Singh pinched a 

muscle on Apollan's abdomen.   Indians clapped with excitement. When 

Singh slaked off, Apollan got hold of Singh's long hair and spun him 

around the ring while Singh was squealing loudly like a hog. The blacks 

were cheering while the Indians in the crowd were subdued.  The referee 

should have stopped Apollan for the foul but he didn't and declared 

Apollan as the winner in the end.  Juggernaut read in the news papers 

that Singh won the next match in the South, a predominantly Indian area 

and lost to Apollan in the capital city full of blacks. 

On a visit to the United States in 1974, his brother in law 

took Juggernaut to a wrestling match in Jacksonville, Florida. Hundreds 

of thousands came to the arena to watch several wrestling matches. A 

match between Andre the Giant and Lumber Jack was the top attraction of 

the day, the spectators were shouting and screaming for blood. 

Wrestling is a multimillion dollar entertainment show made for TV than 

real sports in America.  The American wrestling industry seems to have 

borrowed a page from the playbook of Hindu mythologies in creating a 

wicked villain and a virtuoso hero among the wrestlers in each bout to 

engage the spectators and thus create a fan club. Now Juggernaut was 

not sure whether wrestler Singh back in Trinidad was really crying or 

faking it when he was pulled by his hair around the ring by Apollan to 

the delight of the crowd. Perhaps It was all drama, most likely Singh 

went into serious acting business after his wrestling career was ended 

just like the legendary Indian wrestler Dara Singh. Wrestling is all 

about acting whether it is in the ring or on the movie sets. Wrestler 

King Kong in India became famous in the monkey business of wrestling 

well before Hollywood made movies on King Kong, the great ape. 


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