A referee officiates, while judges among the crowd deliver their verdicts in cases when there is no obvious winner. “We provide this facility so our people can have some enjoyment,” said Juma Khan, a 58-year-old judge and deputy director of last Friday’s event. Just like his father, and his grandfather, and his great-grandfather before him.Ī security guard at a market during the day, the former wrestling athlete has been judging competitions for the past 12 years, he said. Most athletes and spectators spend two to three months in the Afghan capital working - as manual laborers or in hotels, restaurants and markets - before heading back home to their families for a few weeks. Pahlawani provides a few hours of much anticipated entertainment. The men gather in the dust-blown field that is Chaman-e-Huzori park at around 2 p.m. Answer: MJF v/s Cody Easily the best one for me. every Friday and stay until sunset, with around 10 to 20 young men coming forward from the crowd to compete. This is the match that could draw over a million PPV buys if AEW starts living up to their promises, the ones that were made at their inception. A lot of things with the exception of Cody make little to no sense. Then, as the sun sets behind Tapai Maranjan hill in the background, the competitors are finished. In the blink of an eye, as billowing dust swirls around speeding rickshaws, their horns blaring, the crowd melts away for another week.
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