Only a few countries around the globe participates and takes kabaddi sport serious aggression. Kabbadi World Cup 2016 is an International tournament controlled and organized by the International Kabbadi Federation and started with a splendid ceremony on October 7, 2016. IKF played a major role in gathering different countries to provide global recognition to this Sport.

Official and sole broadcaster for Kabbadi 2016 is Star Sports who have possession of telecasting it LIVE to the audience. Hotstar also will exclusively mainstream this Sport online. Star Sports have launched a live streaming of Kabbadi since 2014 when it was first introduced to the common audience and outcomes were tremendous.

The 2016 version of Kabbadi World Cup is sponsored by well known brands around the world. This league was started to nourish and cultivate domestic talent and there is profusion of it. A whole new directed edition of sport managed by a production house which starts similar to movies with lights, camera and action blueprint. This is the third Knock off the Kabaddi World Cup, which has proved that it can exist for a century and visually it looks far more competitive with an extensive range of caliber and talent.

India and Iran are still considered hard-hitting contenders from the past two editions of the World Cup. As Iran showed they can emerge as a World Cup winner by defeating India with a shocking score of 34-32 and proved. Beside these two countries as South Korea has a well established squad of players and has an organized set up. Rest all the countries are struggling to broaden a strong Kabaddi base with well structured team management. Japan and Bangladesh have a Kabaddi base, but still lacking and struggling to show up the interest towards this diverse game.

IKF from few years are trying to nurture this sport in order to expand the game base throughout the World and has sent out many coaches to foreign soil to train and prepare a strong squad.

There are lots of expectation from teams like Poland, Kenya and Argentina, who don’t yet have the maturity, but are keen to emerge as an enthusiastic team.

A lot of valor has been shown from the different countries and are still curious to learn. A mixture of valor and struggle is getting them to line up for the next edition of the Kabbadi World Cup.

Source: https://www.sportspredicts.com/sport/kabaddi/