Neetu represents Asia in the Junior World Championships in Brazil, August 14, 2015. (Picture: United World Wrestling, YouTube)

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Brand NEW DELHI, India — As soon as the biggest feminine star in U.S. Fighting techinques, Ronda Rousey, announced that she was using the fight to Hollywood this thirty days, India’s latest wrestling heroine had been many most most likely doing work in the areas or assisting her two sons along with their research.

This woman is understood just by her very first title, Neetu — and she ended up being when a young child bride.

Forced into wedding with a 43-year-old, mentally challenged guy by her cash-strapped moms and dads whenever she was just 13, Neetu ended up being the caretaker of twins before she switched 15. But she didn’t allow a child that is illegal or perhaps the repressive morals of her ultra-conservative village within the north Indian state of Haryana stop her.

From the wishes of her moms and dads, Neetu left her spouse lower than a week after their wedding. Also she refused to give up, according to her interviews with Indian media though she was almost immediately remarried.

“Rowdy” Rousey could be proud.

Village elders banned Neetu from exercising at your local “akhara” — a training ground utilized by her city’s male wrestlers — because she had been a lady. And her family didn’t desire her to wrestle, either. Therefore she utilized to slip out of our home at 3 a.m. To get operating therefore that she might be right back in the home before other people had been awake, she told India’s NDTV. Continue reading Meet Asia’s youngster bride switched champ that is wrestling →