World champion wrestler Inam Butt beat Hamid Khan to win Rustam-E-Pakistan title
Pakistan's star wrestler Muhammad Inam Butt defeated his opponent Hamid Khan to win the title of Rustam-E-Pakistan in a competition held at Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad.
Rustam-E-Pakistan is one of the most prestigious Kabaddi events existing in the country and now will be a biennial event. Two wrestlers from each affiliated unit of the PWF participated in these competitions. All units sent the names of two leading wrestlers after formal trials. The pre-quarter-finals were held in Lahore. The quarter-finals and semi-finals were conducted in Bahawalpur and the finale was contested in Faisalabad at Iqbal Stadium in which Inam Butt, as expected, performed well enough to win the title of Rustam-E-Pakistan for the very first time.
A prize pursue of 500,000 PKR was awarded to the world wrestler Muhammad Inam Butt, while the runner-up bagged 250,000 PKR. Whereas, 3rd and 4th position holder also gathered Rs. 150,000 and Rs. 100,000, respectively.
This is the first time that Inam played a high-level mud wrestling event as he is well known for his incredible talent of mat wrestling. He holds two titles of the Commonwealth Games and two top wins of the World Beach Wrestling Championships. He has also qualified for the World Beach Games which will be held in the United States later this year.
Pakistan Wrestling Federation (PWF) Secretary, Arshad Sattar said that Inam had become a popular seed of mud-wrestling on his debut event. He said Inam’s value had reached around Rs. 300,000 per fight.
On the other hand, Hamid is the current Rustam-E-Multan holding the heavyweight title of 2010 National Games in Peshawar, beating the 2011 Rustam-E-Pakistan Usman Majeed.
The new Rustam-E-Pakistan, wrestler Inam Butt was warmly welcomed by the citizens upon his arrival after winning the title of ‘Rustam-E-Pakistan’ for which a large number of citizens chanted slogans in his favor and showered rose petals on him appreciating him for his big win.
