Known as the jack of all trades, Sahil Khattar who is one of the top 10 YouTube stars in the country today is now hosting the new season of the wrestling show WWE Sunday Dhamaal. This is not the first time that Sahil will host a sports show, he has previously entertained the audience by hosting shows on cricket and football titled Fair and Square and Football Extra respectively.
We caught up with the YouTube star who was also an RJ in Chandigarh told us how being an RJ helped him to enunciate and that has helped him as an anchor and commentator. For those who don’t know, Sahil Khattar is a bronze medalist in Asian Games 2005 for roller hockey. He was the captain of the Indian roller hockey team.
Talking about his equation with sports he says, “I am bronze medalist in Asian Games 2005, for playing for the Indian team in roller hockey. So I have a very old relationship with sports not just roller hockey but also cricket, football, basketball because what happens is girls give a lot of attention to great looking guys like us. So much so that we rot in a corner. Actually in school no body used to care about us so I participated in all kinds of debates, elocution, choir singing, plays, sports - only because I thought, so what if God has not given me the looks, I'll build a personality so that girls get attracted. But, still nothing! Still single.”
His sense of humour and energy is infectious so we thought to channelise all that energy in the right direction, and also test his knowledge on WWE we asked him to show us some famous WWE moves. Not only did he ace it but also made it super entertaining.
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