Rinku Singh (baseball)

Singh was signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates organisation after he won a pitching contest on a 2008 reality television show The Million Dollar Arm.

Singh grew up in poverty, the son of a truck driver, in a rural village called Gopiganj, Bhadohi in Uttar Pradesh.

B. Bernstein and his partners Ash Vasudevan and Will Chang to find the individual in the country who could throw the fastest and most accurate baseball.

[12] Reports from Pittsburgh Pirates scouts Joe Ferrone and Sean Campbell led to general manager Neal Huntington signing both to contracts with the organisation.

[17] At the end of August, Singh was promoted to the Pirates Class A Short-Season affiliate, the State College Spikes.

[19] Singh played for the Canberra Cavalry of the Australian Baseball League for the competition's inaugural 2010–11 season, going 1–0 with a 3.94 ERA in 16 innings pitched.

The following week, Bivens introduced them as Rinku and Saurav, while revealing their team name to be Indus Sher (meaning Indian Tigers).

[30] At Superstar Spectacle on 22 January 2021, Rinku and Saurav resurfaced and teamed with Drew McIntyre in a six-man tag-team match to defeat Jinder Mahal and The Bollywood Boyz.

[34] After months of vignettes hyping his debut, Mahaan finally returned to television on 4 April 2022 episode of Raw, attacking Rey and Dominik Mysterio.

[37] On the 4 October episode of NXT, Mahaan returned to the developmental brand, teasing a reunion with his former tag team partner Saurav, now known as Sanga.

On the March 18 2024 episode of Raw, he and Sanga were defeated by Awesome Truth for a spot in the six-pack ladder match for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship at WrestleMania XL.

On the 5 April 2024 episode of Smackdown, he appeared in the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, where he was eliminated by the Creed Brothers.

[42] The project stalled and eventually producers Joe Roth and Mark Ciardi set the film up at Walt Disney Pictures.

[7] During his baseball career, he said that he recited the Hindu devotional hymn Hanuman Chalisa and listened to the Eminem song "Not Afraid" before pitching.