10 things you need to know about the upcoming Pro Wrestling League

The league will be held between November 8 and November 29, 2015 and will have six city-based teams in the first edition, eight in the second, and could see more teams added in the future.

Three cities from North India (between Delhi, Hisar, Rajasthan, UP & Punjab) and one each from West (Pune & Mumbai), East (Ranchi, Kolkata & Bhubaneshwar) and South (Chennai, Bengaluru &Hyderabad) will comprise the inaugural six franchises.

The event will feature 66 wrestlers in all– 36 Indian and 30 foreign. Each franchise will have one icon player.

The auction will include 10+ Olympic medallists and ­more than 20 World Chmapionship medallists, and other European Games, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games medallists.

Top Indian wrestlers in the fray include double Olympic medallist and former World champion Sushil Kumar (66kg), Olympic bronze medallist Yogeshwar Dutt (60kg), World championship medallist Amit Kumar (55kg), and Bajrang Kumar among men, and Rio Olympic hopefuls Geeta Phogat, Babita Kumari and Jyoti among women.

International wrestlers who will feature in the auction include current Olympic and world champion in 74kg Jordan Burroughs (US) and Adeline Gray (US), who won her third World Championship gold this year.

Teams will face each other once. Two-day legs will be held in each host city where all six teams will be in action before the caravan moves to the next city. In PWL-2, the format will have home and away matches. A total 18 ties (15 league ties, 2 semifinals, 1 final) in the inaugural season.

Each tie will comprise nine bouts – five men and four women. Teams that wins five out of nine will be declared winner.

The tournament in total comprises 162 bouts. Each bout will have 3 rounds of 3 minutes each and a bout win will fetch 1 point for the team. Teams will get 1 bonus point for tie win.

The prize purse is set at a whopping Rs. 5 crore for the event.