The popularity of the sports can be seen from its fan following around the world. Top tv channels bought the broadcasting rights for the sports if its popular. But not all sports get the same kind of coverage due to it’s unique rules and regulation and interest of international audience. Unicycle Hockey, Chess Boxing, Indoor Kabaddi least popular sports among the fans around the world.
#1 | Sheep Counting | The first contest of the Sheep counting take place in 2006. It’s a sports competition some countries and only local based people used to be part of it. The rules were simple, the person who counts actual number of or more accurate numbers of sheep’s from the dash of 500 to 600 will become the winner.
Popular Among | Australia, Switzerland, Austria
International Competition | None (only local based)
#2 | Extreme Ironing | Extreme Ironing is one of the most phenomenal extreme sports where Contestants takes their Ironing board, clothing, and iron to the most dangerous possible location just like the freezing meadows.
Popular Among | Finland, Canada
International | N/A
#3 | Wife Carrying | The next sports which comes to the list of most least watch sports is Wife carrying. In India Bollywood directors made movie about the this sports but on small dramatic role in the end “Dum Laga Ke Haisha”. The rules are simple, males successfully carry their wives to the destination line while covering the given course in the least amount of time.
Popular Among | India, Sweden, Estonia, Finland
International Competition | N/A
#4 | Unicycle Hockey | It’s a team sport, and its similar to rink hockey. In this sports, where players try to hit the ball with sticks to score the goals, but unicycle is involved to score goal. The game is popular among countries Australia, Germany and Switzerland.
International Events | Eurocycle and APUC
TV Coverage | Unknown
#5 | Chess Boxing | Chessboxing was invented by French comic book artist Enki Bilal. Later it’s adapted by Dutch performance artist Iepe Rubingh as an art performance. The first competition of Chess boxing take place in Berlin, Germany. The first championship of Chessboxing held in the same year in Netherlands by (Dutch Boxing Association).
Major Boxing Associations | World Chess Boxing Association, World Chess Boxing Organisation
TV Coverage | Unknown
#6 | Indoor Kabaddi | Kabaddi popular among Punjab regions of India and Pakistan. Recently other countries also set their teams for the Kabaddi competition. Iran, Canada two famous teams that compete India and Pakistan in Kabaddi competition. Indoor Kabaddi is new style, mostly famous among Indian fans not much popular among other regions. Indian Kabaddi league one of the most popular domestic competition is one of it’s example.
Competition | Asian Games
Country | India (local based)
TV Coverage | India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Iran (during Asian Games)
#7 | Polo | Polo is a horseback ball game. It’s a traditional field sport. One of the oldest sports in the world. The sports based on goal scoring, with long-handled wooden mallet to hit a small hard ball. Each team has four mounted riders. According to study the game is basically play more than an hour or two hour.
International Competition | World Polo Championship
Popular Among | USA, Pakistan, India, Ireland, United Kingdom
TV Coverage | Unknown
#8 | Fencing | It’s a group of three related combat sports. Three disciplines in modern fencing are the foil, the épée, and the sabre. The winning points are made through the weapon’s contact with an opponent. Fencing might be one of the most progressive games but still, people did not like to enjoy this sport on the stage. The main fact is that it does not have much drama that grabbed the emotion of the viewers.
International Competition | Part of Summer Olympic programme since 1896
TV Coverage | Only during Olympics Games
#9 | Archery | Archery is a sport which is a way to practice, use it as skill to shoot arrows with a bow. Archery included in Olympics, got international recognition. It’s is one of the oldest sports, the method used in old times to hunt food in the forests. Even still having big number of championship worldwide, people are not familiar with this sports much due to less tv coverage worldwide.
Competition | World Archery Championships, Summer Olympics, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games
Countries | Japan, Korea, India, United States, China, Germany
#10 | Ferret Legging | During the sport, ferrets were trapped in trousers worn by a participant. The other name given to it “put ’em down”. The event is much popular among the Yorkshire, England. The winner of the the competition is the one who is the last one to release the animal from the trousers.
Popular Among | United States, United Kingdom
TV Coverage | N/A
Note | List is will be updated with more sports who got no big popularity even being admitted to the international competition. But these are current least popular sports in the world.
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