Indian Kabaddi

History of Kabaddi - World Cup champions List Since 2004. 

India fully dominates the Kabaddi

sport in all world having won the Nearly All world cup titles. India has won the Kabaddi World Cup 2016 to defeat Iran held in Ahmadabad, India.

Pakistan became kabaddi world champions Sunday after narrowly beating arch-rivals and 6th-time Kabaddi Champions India who played even though authorities at home vowed to investigate why a team competed despite a ban on sporting ties.

In Kabaddi World Cup final 2020, Pakistan fought back in the second half to secure a 43-41 win over the defending champions in the popular South Asian sport in front of thousands of spectators.

Brief History of Kabaddi & Kabaddi World Cup Champions.

The word Kabaddi is derived from Tamil language word "Kai-pidi" which means to hold with hands & also firstly played in Tamil Nadu, India.

Kabaddi was 1st introduced in Berlin Olympics later on Indian Olympics games 1938 at Calcutta. Kabaddi is most popular in especially south Asia & other parts of the world like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Iran, Bangladesh Japan, Canada, USA, UK, Argentina, Thailand, Korea, China, Indonesia, Australia etc. 

Kabaddi is the national sport of Bangladesh.  

Kabaddi is played in 3 styles standard-national style, circle style, beach style. 

There are 4 format-forms of kabaddi, Amar, Suranjeevi, Huttuttoo, Gaminee. 

Current champion- winner of Kabaddi world cup 2016 is India team.  Men's Kabaddi World Cup (Standard Style) tournament held in 2004, 2007 and 2016 all three mega units won by India.

while in the Men's Kabaddi World Cup history (Circle Style) tournaments held on 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 & in 2020 while the 5 out of 6 mega Kabadddi tournaments won by India & Maiden title won by Pakistan recently in 2020 .

New Rules of Pro Kabaddi. 

The new rules of Pro Kabaddi reward gutsy defending too & a team is awarded 2 points for a “Super Tackle”, when three defenders or less keep a raider down in any raid. The “Do-Or-Die Raid” is another great new rule to add more intensity & increase scoring rates.