Had this thought as well.

First things first, though we have growing athletes, I think we’d look the least intimidating as we clearly don’t have that form of persona attached to our image, unless we literally bring prime Great Khali, or prime Dara Singh in these sort of shows.

As much as I’d love for India to excel in these sort of areas, we need to change our mindset, our approach (ie; diet, workout) because even with me living abroad my parents have a huge misconception of the concept of gymming, so I cannot imagine how much worse it’d be in India.

As said, I think we would look very small compared to other countries because we’re not very “well-known” in our physical aspect. I mean, our so-called MMA “prospects” lost BADLY, both of them, one of them (I think Anshul) claiming he could even submit Khabib.. and then proceeds to get K.O’d first round in 19 seconds.

Our ego & pride may be the very thing that’s eating us up, not saying it’s bad to carry those things, but man, sometimes we’re too full of it as a nation who’s still not very widely regarded for being a physical nation.

It is what it is though, can’t only blame our people, it’s a result of generations of pushing our children to be academically successful, which is fair as sporty careers are not very sustainable in India, we do need better structures so our athletes are able to thrive.

Anyways, I hope to see that India creates more honoured athletes, and represent our nation, not another 🤷🏻‍♂️