Former TNA Wrestler and current Ring Ka King star Sonjay Dutt was a guest on Live Audio Wrestling to discuss TNA's India Ring Ka King show. Below are some quick highlights of the interview:

On the formation of Ring Ka King:
"This is actually something thats been in the works for quite some time. I spoke to jeff about a year ago. It was kind of vague on what was going to happen. a few months down the line we started working a little more in depth. Last December we shot the first 12 episodes of the season there. This really goes back to the time with Pate Kenny and sharkboy when we went over there to promote TNA when they first got on ESPN asia. When we came back we told the higher ups how this is really an untapped market.

Everybody from Endemol productions and ColorsTV has been phenomenal with the wrestling into integration into the Indian marketplace. When you're in Mumbai, when you're in the major cities in India right now theres billboards, theres posters you cant escape ring ka king right now."

On whether he believes WWE or any other organization failed to capitalize on the Indian demographic:
"Absolutely. I'm shocked that wwe hasn't capitalized. Nobody has had any live events there, wwe hasn't been there for many many years now. Theres never been an Indian promotion for Indians by Indians. This is the first time something has been created for India."

On How developing the Indian talent for the show came to be:
"Me and Road Dogg Brian went over there we went over there in September for actually had 2 days of auditions and we had 200 indians showed up. we selected 50 initially. we narrowed that down to 15. Those are the 15 Indians you see on the show. We trained them in India, Savio Vega and Nick Dinsmore spent about 2 or 3 months in preparation for ring ka king. Its really an amazing project from start to finish. just the fact that we see the growth of these guys we literally picked out off the streets and now they are legitimate stars in their own country. It was an open casting call. Alot of the casting agencies in Mumbai were involved. They sent alot of talent our way. There is no wrestling scene in india. As far as they are concerned, it's just a television show over there. There is a form of amateur wrestling over there so those guys showed up over there, athletes showed up over there.

On their early expectations for Ring Ka King were:
"when jeff initially approached me about this project. you cant really blame them, nobody knew anything about the Indian culture or the landscape and things that go on there. I speak Hindi and Punjabi I guess i was the front runner in directing the crew on Indian culture. So Jeff put me on the creative team. That's kind of like my backstage, behind the scenes work. Just presenting the Indian culture, its definitely a different world than what it is in north America.

We didn't know what to expact, we knew what we wanted. Our conversation with ColorsTV and Endemol productions, we didn't know if they could deliver. Last december when we taped for 4 days, each day got better and better. Those crowd reactions."


On using a heel persona in Ring Ka King:
its me coming out of a babyface would have been an easy role to play. i was spekptical at first, didnt know if they would boo me or hate me. everything has kind of clicked. My promos have to be both in english and hindi. It's something i'm defnitely feeling comfortable with. getting a chance to actually wrestle in india for indians is just an amazing thing.

You can listen to the full audio interview at the following link: Live Audio Wrestling Interview – Sonjay Dutt – Feb. 2012