{"id":12157,"date":"2016-01-22T16:06:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T16:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=12157"},"modified":"2016-01-22T16:07:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T16:07:20","slug":"shak-khan-beast-from-the-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/22\/shak-khan-beast-from-the-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Shak Khan &#8211; Beast from the East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shak Khan (Raja Sony Palwan) Hailing from the village of Sochani near the town of Dadyal, Azad Kashmir in Pakistan, Shak Khan is the current Pakistani World Wrestling Champion.<\/p>\n<p>Shak has a range of fighting skills and techniques learnt thoughout years of fighting in championships worldwide and also whilst training with some of the most respected fighters in the field. Trained by the world famous International Pakistani Heavyweight champion of Azad Kashmir Ali Shan who has competed in tournaments around the world but is now since retired. Also trained in the UK by the most feared british world of sport wrestler &#8220;Dangerous&#8221; Dave Duran (John Palin).<\/p>\n<p>Shak has come a long way since turning Professional at 16. Starting out at Blackpool Pleasure beach taking on members of the public for money at the Wrestling Challenge shows that took place in the mid 1980&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Name:<\/span> \u00a0Shak Khan \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">D.o.b:<\/span> \u00a010-10.73<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Height:<\/span> 5ft 8 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Weight:<\/span> 16 Stone<\/p>\n<div class=\"line\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">From:<\/span> Dadyal, Mirpur, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">UK Residence: <\/span>Blackpool Lancashire.<\/p>\n<div class=\"line\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Number of years as a Pro Wrestler:<\/span>16 years<\/p>\n<div class=\"line\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Titles Held:<\/span> Freestyle Amateur Wrestling Champion of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. No holds barred full contact champion. Mid-Heavyweight Asian Wrestling &amp; Streetfight Champion of Azad Kashmir Pakistan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Fighting Style:<\/span> Hardcore &amp; Technical Grappler<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Shak Khan (Raja Sony Palwan) is the only Professional Pakistani wrestler in the world. He is proud to represent Azad Kashmir in tournaments all over the world.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Tournaments so far include:<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">1998 &#8211; Dubai Desert Challenge<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">2009 &#8211; Kuwait Wrestling Championship<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Countries travelled. Spain, France, Caribean, Greece, Middle East, Dubai, Kuwait, Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Shak Khan wrestles mostly overseas but is available for independent tournaments and appearances within the UK and Europe.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shak Khan (Raja Sony Palwan) Hailing from the village of Sochani near the town of Dadyal, Azad Kashmir in Pakistan, Shak Khan is the current Pakistani World Wrestling Champion. Shak has a range of fighting skills and techniques learnt thoughout years of fighting in championships worldwide and also whilst training with some of the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}