In the UK, Channel 4 went through a phase of showing all sorts of weird international sports.
NFL, Sumo and Kabaddi were standard Sunday viewing in the 80s.
I'd heard that the rule for the raiders was that they had to chant Kabaddi constantly and that if they stopped to breathe they were out (or something like that) so I was super impressed with these guys lung capacity but apparently the pros just use a 30 second timer