The Great Khali performs quite a range of Wrestling Moves inside the Wrestling Ring, following are the documented ones:

Tree Slam (Choke Drop)
The Choke Drop, also called Choke Bomb (referred to by WWE as the Tree Slam in case of The Great Khali) involves the attacking wrestler, put both his hands around the competitor’s neck, the attacker then lifts the competitor up and throws him down to the mat, back first. Khali uses this move as his finisher, he did it at Wrestlemania too, this was the same move that finished off Kane.

Vice Grip [The CLAW]
A devastating move by Khali in which he squeezes the skull of the opponent thereby stopping the blood circulation in their skull. Used very frequently as a finisher

Brain Chop
The infamous Brain Chop of The Great Khali involves him holding the competitor in a standing position and then taking his other hand back, and then finally smashing it on the opponent’s skull, the opponent usually goes down on impact.

Gorilla Press
In this move, the attacking Wrestler lifts the opponent up, over their heads with both of their arms extended, and drops them outside the ring/somewhere inside the ring/away from themselves. Khali does this move on cruiserweights, most notably in Deep South Wrestling

Release PowerBomb
In this maneuver, the attacking Wrestler, picks up the opponent vertically and then releases them towards the ground (usually without any kind of additional force) Khali used to do this move in NJPW and a couple of times in DSW, but hasn’t been using the move since.

Single shoulder FireMan’s Carry
The attacker puts the opponent on one of his shoulder and then throws him down or above the turnbuckles so that the opponent turns 180 degrees before falling down. The Great Khali has recently started doing this move on RAW, and tried it on John Cena, but Cena broke out of it. Khali has also done this move several times in NJPW.

ChokeSlam
Everyone knows what happens in this move, but I’ll explain anyway, in this move, the attacker holds the opponent by their throat (with one hand) swings one arm of the wrestler over his shoulder and then picks the wrestler up and throws him to the mat. Khali did this move in NJPW, and still does it on occasion in the WWE, like he did the move at the GAB.

Headbutt
The attacker strikes the forehead of the opponent by the side of his head, Khali does this move quite frequently in his matches. The most notable display of this move was at Royal Rumble when Khali headbutted Seven wrestlers.

Throw/Irish Whip
Most wrestlers would Irish whip their opponents, if they want them to come back from the ropes, but Khali usually grabs his opponents by their head and throws them away. Wrestlers get thrown out of the ring on impact sometimes. Khali only Irish whips big opponents, like he did Kane and The Undertaker.

Big Boot
In this move, the attacker hits the chest/face of the opponent with his boot when they are bouncing off the ropes coming towards the attacker. Khali does this move quite frequently, especially when opponents are running bouncing off the ropes trying to perform a maneuver on Khali.

Clothesline
When the opponent is standing or running towards the attacker, the attacker extends his arm and takes the opponent down by their neck, this move is referred to as the Clothesline, Khali practices this move often.

Corner Back Elbow Strike
When the opponent is coming towards the attacking wrestler, the attacker turns around and places their arm backwards and takes the opponent down by their throat, this is similar to a clothesline, but the attacker is not facing the opponent in this move, and the arm’s back is applied to the opponent in order to take them down.

BearHug
In this move, the attacking wrestler lifts his opponent and hugs them, so tight that they pass out, and its not like a mutual hug, more like a one-sided one. Giant wrestlers do it, and Khali did this move in NJPW on Cruiserweights.

Double ChokeSlam (with Giant Silva in NJPW and Big Show in ECW)
Two attackers hold the common opponent by his throat with alternate hands, swing his arms over their shoulders and then chokeslam him. Khali did this move with Giant Silva in NJPW and with Big Show in ECW

Leg Drop
The opponent is down on the mat and the attacking wrestler jumps over the opponent and extends their legs, with one leg hitting the opponent on their neck area. Khali has started doing this move from his first match with Shawn Michaels.

Nerve Hold
The opponent is on his knees and the attacking wrestler is standing, the attacking wrestler then holds the shoulder nerves of the opponent and squeezes them so that the opponent is forced to submit. Khali does this move often these days and was seen using it against Batista at GAB.

Chops (Both versions)
The move made infamous by Ric Flair, in which the attacker slaps the opponent’s chest with the back of his hand (in an inverted version, with the palm instead) the move might look basic, but causes a lot of pain and damage. Khali uses this move frequently.

Here at Khali.info we have managed to gather a few facts about the Great Khali about which not many people know about, since The Great Khali is relatively new to wrestling and it will take some time for everyone to know everything about him

The Great Khali’s full name is Dalip Singh Rana

- The Great Khali has a chest measuring 63 Inches

- The Great Khali is billed as being from The Punjab Jungles of India, in reality, there are no real Jungles in Punjab and Khali is from a state called Himachal Pradesh.

- The Great Khali’s name is taken from the Indian Goddess of power “Kaali”

- When he was small, Dalip Singh used to work as a stone breaker, his job involved breaking big stones into pieces and then passing the broken pieces to another laborer who would then take them further. This job was given to Dalip Singh because at that moment of time, there were proper roads being constructed in the Dhirana Town, therefore Dalip worked as one of the laborers, he was given meagre daily wages.

- Dalip actually was intimidated by people much smaller than him back when he worked as the roadside labourer.

- Dalip Singh wants to open four professional wrestling schools in India since there are none yet, he wants to see more and more Indian blood going into pro wrestling too.

- Dalip Singh knows conversational English and is still learning more of it.

- When he is at his home in Jalandhar, Dalip actively visits various Gyms in his city and gives the youth tips on bodybuilding.

- Dalip Singh is a Rajput Hindu and a devout one for that.

- Dalip Singh likes to eat all sorts of Punjabi food and hasn’t yet developed a liking for any type of Fast Food.

- Dalip Singh’s bodybuilding Coach’s name is Dr. Randhir Kumar

- Besides his employment with the WWE, Dalip Singh is also a sub inspector in Punjab Police.

- Dalip donates a large chunk of his income towards the development of his village Dhirana.

- Dalip Singh’s wife, Mrs. Harminder is a typical Indian Housewife and isn’t involved into any kind of a job.

- Dalip Singh loves kids and spends a lot of time with the children of his siblings whenever he gets home.

- He is very Agile in real life and had quite an interest in Athletics before he took on to bodybuilding.

- The Great Khali is drugs-free, alchohol-free and smoking-free (unproclaimed Straight Edge) just like CM Punk but is yet to achieve some recognition for that.

We will be adding more facts about The Great Khali as we keep getting them! Thanks for reading.

On the 8th of January, The Great Khali made his debut at RAW, after wrestling for quite some time in ECW. That night on RAW, John Cena came to the ring and was talking about Armando Alejandro Estrada’s victory over him, saying that it was a fluke and that Armando was a loser. Cena then challanged Umaga for a matchup, but Coachman came out and told Cena that he had given Umaga rest and he was not scheduled to appear this night.

John Cena looked dismayed, but then Coachman told him that instead of Umaga, Cena would go on to face the latest appearance on RAW, The Great Khali. (This took Cena aback a bit, seemingly) The Great Khali then appeared at the main Event on that night and faced John Cena for a non-title match, in which Armando appeared as the commentator, when Khali was on the other side of the ring, Armando took a chair and tried to hit Cena with it, but failed.

Cena took the chair and hit Khali with it, upon which Khali was declared the winner of the match by disqualification, The Great Khali then proceeded to destroy Cena.

On the next episode of RAW on 15th January 2007, Vince McMahon was going on with his feud with Donald Trump and called out Torrie Wilson dressed as Miss USA (forcibly) and then harassed her in the ring, responding to which Carlito came out and told Vince that he and his stupid skits were not cool at all and the fans wanted real action.

Vince told Carlito that if the fans and Carlito appreciated real action then Carlito would have a match that night with The Great Khali. The Great Khali then came and destroyed Carlito as Torrie watched and cried.

Next week on the 22nd, Coachman put up John Cena in a mini Royal Rumble (Prelude to the upcoming Royal Rumble) with the main goal to eliminate John Cena for winning, many wrestlers came in (all jobber heels) and dominated Cena, but then Khali came in, threw away all the heel wrestlers and took out John Cena, destroying him completely, Khali then left Cena in the ring and walked away. It is said that The Great Khali won this match, however, there was no official announcement or such.

On January 28th, 2007 at the Royal Rumble, The Great Khali was in the main event, which was The Royal Rumble, he came in at the No. 28 and took out SEVEN wrestlers, in this order:- Hardcore Holly, Chris Benoit, Mike “The Miz” Mizanin, Rob Van Dam, C.M. Punk, Carlito Cool and Chavo Guerrero. This was one of the most dominating scenes in WWE History (and according to some, one of the funniest, since all Wrestlers were dwarfed by Khali) The Great Khali headbutted and threw all of the seven wrestlers out in a row, before being finally eliminated by The Undertaker when The Undertaker clotheslined him out.

Next night on the 29th, The Great Khali literally squashed Jeff Hardy, the match was an intercontinental title match, but Khali didn’t go for the title, and instead chopped Hardy outside the ring, which knocked him out cold, Khali then did his signature “Stronger than you” taunt, during which the referee counted out Hardy, therefore securing Khali the win (but not the title, since this was a countout win)

On February 12th at RAW, Khali was put up in a match against Eugene (Nick Dinsmore) and it started with Eugene trying to offer Khali a stuffed toy, The Great Khali responded by throwing it away, and then Khali squashed Eugene, ending the match with a Chokebomb and by pinning Eugene by putting his boot on Eugene’s chest.

Next week, on 19th February 2007, a Handicap match was set up, with The Highlanders Robbie and Rory McAllistair against The Great Khali. Needless to say, The Great Khali defeated them pretty easily, and scored the win.

23rd February - 1st April: Feud with Kane (Click to Go there for full details)

After Wrestlemania was over, The Great Khali was briefly out of action for several weeks, but WWE continuously aired promos of him “coming to RAW” soon. It was at this time that the WWE went on a European Promotional Tour. On RAW, 23rd April, Carlito was scheduled to have a match against The Great Khali at London, England. Carlito asked Ric Flair not to help him in this match (Torrie didn’t accompany Carlito as well) but nevertheless Khali easily squashed Carlito, even when Carlito tried his best. After the match Carlito was seen shouting something at Ric Flair in Spanish.

The Great Khali made his first Smackdown appearance as an unnamed monster. At that moment of time there was a match for one fall going against The Undertaker and Mark Henry, because The Undertaker had a feud with Mark.
The Undertaker had almost won the match when The Great Khali made an appearance and totally destroyed The Undertaker, the match was thus declared as a no-contest. Shawn Daivari was The Great Khali’s on screen manager at this time and he was also with Khali when he came and destroyed The Undertaker.

The next week at SMACKDOWN! The Great Khali made an appearance with Daivari again when Daivari Introduced the Great Khali to everyone. Daivari said things like “The Great Khali has stared into the abyss, and the Earth has trembled at his Gaze” “The Great Khali has wrestled the Royal Bengal Tiger” and “The Great Khali is from the Punjab Jungles of India”. Nothing of this is true in real life, but it did provide a good on-screen start to The Great Khali.

Afterwards Daivari gave the Microphone to The Great Khali, but the commentators could not understand what he said since The Great Khali was speaking in Hindi and Punjabi. There was no fighting involved in this appearance however. The Great Khali probably said “Undertaker, Main hoon Khali” followed by something in Punjabi which we at Khali.info could not understand.
In the next edition of SMACKDOWN! The Great Khali made his debut in ring and his first match was against Sho Funaki which was a Squash match, The Great Khali defeated Funaki with ease while showing off the huge amount of physical strength he posesses.

On the 5th of May at SMACKDOWN! A fatal four way match between cruiserweights was taking place, the participants were Vito, Nunzio, Kid Kash and Super Crazy. The Great Khali interfered and knocked all four participants out cold and proceeded with his regular chants and display of power. All of the participants of the fatal four way match seemed like Toys in the hands of Khali, being thrown around the way they were.

At this moment of time there was a feud going on between Rey Mysterio and John Bradshaw Layfield (JBL), and JBL most supposedly “hired” The Great Khali as the assassin of Rey Mysterio. The match proceeded as JBL watched on as a guest commentator.

Needless to say, the little Rey Mysterio couldn’t compete all that well against The Great Khali and lost to him. A few wrestling enthusiasts have termed this particular fight in Wrestling History as the match between “David and Goliath” referring to the story in The Holy Bible. However David (Rey Mysterio) had little luck this time. This match was a non-title Match so The Great Khali did not win The World Heavyweight Championship from Mysterio.

The Great Khali’s feud with The Undertaker had already began at this time, and in the SMACKDOWN! edition of next week, Shawn Daivari did a promotional appearance and talked against The Undertaker. The Great Khali shouted on the Microphone as well on this appearance, after this appearance, The Great Khali was given a matchup against The Undertaker on Judgment Day.

The Great Khali and Daivari Taunting the Undertaker

May 21st was a date The Great Khali will remember all of his life because that was the day he got his first shot in a Special Event of WWE, The Judgment Day, by this time The Great Khali had got a lot of heat from the supporters of The Undertaker and the match was much awaited for. It could also be noted that Judgment Day got a nice response this time from the WWE Fans, the audience turnout was nearly 16,000, about 6,000 people more from the last Judgment day in 2005.

The much anticipated matchup against The Undertaker saw The Great Khali dominating throughout, as he landed his Brainchops, Headbutts, Clotheslines, Double Handed Chokeslams on the Undertaker, The Great Khali LITERALLY destroyed The Undertaker at this event. The Great Khali then finished the match with his finishing move “The Big Boot” which he put to Undertaker’s Chest. The Great Khali then proceeded to pin The Undertaker. The match ran for Eight Minutes and Thirty one seconds exact.

The Great Khali locking eyes with The Undertaker

After this match, The Great Khali took a brief hiatus off the WWE SMACKDOWN! and wrestled in a few matches at the DSW for sharpening his skills. However this time he appeared on the DSW as The Great Khali and not Dalip Singh. However on the Second date of June, The Great Khali appeared on Rowdy Roddy Piper’s in-ring show at SMACKDOWN! called “The Piper’s Pit” where The Great Khali put Rowdy out cold after Rowdy began praising the Undertaker and called Khali a wrestler with no skills.

On 9th June The Great Khali came back to SMACK DOWN! and attacked Paul London, Brian London and Super Crazy in their respective matches, throwing them here and there with ease just like he did last time. Next week on SMACKDOWN! he was put into a match against the Mexicools Tag team which featured the cruiserweights Super Crazy and Psichosis. Needless to say they could hardly put any competition against The Great Khali and failed miserably. With The Great Khali brainchopping them.

The Great Khali puts Super Crazy in a body Bag

It was at this particular point of time that The Great Khali started mocking the gimmick of The Undertaker which involved a blue light coming all over the arena and the Great Khali getting on one of his knees acting like the Phenom.

On 23rd June Tatanka was having a match for one fall against Simon Dean, when all of a sudden the Great Khali interfered and destroyed both of them, this caused the match to end in a no-contest. Post two weeks The Great Khali was put in a matchup against Tatanka which was scheduled for one fall. The Great Khali defeated Tatanka with ease just like he had defeated everyone else prior to this match.

The Great Khali wrestling Tatanka

With help from Daivari, The Great Khali then proceeded to put Tatanka in a black Body Bag and carried it to the locker room with him. But before carrying the body bag away, Daivari called out the Undertaker into the ring and challanged him to a Punjabi Prison match with The Undertaker, Daivari then shouted out at the Undertaker to respond to the challange, when the lights start going on and off and the arena was sounded with a message.

On July 15th at Saturday Night Main Event, Daivari called The Great Khali “The True Phenom of the WWE”, upon hearing this, The Big Show came out and walked towards the ring. Paul Heyman was with The Big Show as well, The Big show told The Great Khali in a friendly tone “Whooo…. man YOU’RE A BIG BOY!”. (Pointing out to Khali being taller than him) Then after a moment of self praising, The Big Show said that he was there to put Khali “over” (Putting someone over means to praise them in order to boost their confidence) and praised The Great Khali for what he had done to The Undertaker.

The Great Khali “Big Boy”

Afterwards The Undertaker came out and clotheslined The Great Khali over the top rope, but The Great Khali got back in, The Undertaker grabbed The Great Khali’s throat with one hand and Big show’s throat with the other, attempting for a duo chokeslam, but both Khali and Big show reversed the move and changed it to a Double chokeslam leaving the Undertaker out cold. The Big Show later commented in an interview that The Great Khali was dominant but not the EXTREME Giant (which was something he reserved for himself, since he is a real extremist, because he is very tall and at the same time very fat).

Three days later The Great Khali came and interfered in the match at ECW between The Big Show and The Undertaker when Khali and The Big Show chokeslammed Undertaker through the Announcer’s table. The match was declared a no-contest and not a Disqualification because it was The Great Khali who interfered and it was involuntary on The Big Show’s part.

After this WWE SMACKDOWN began hyping up the long awaited matchup between The Undertaker and The Great Khali at The Great American Bash which was going to happen on 23rd July. However The Great Khali was removed from the match one day before because of off-screen Health reasons (See Khali’s Health). On SMACKDOWN! the removal was worded as a “Suspension because of attacking the Undertaker”.

The Punjabi Prison match then took place between The Big Show and The Undertaker. In which The Undertaker won by escaping the Prison’s bamboo walls. Afterwards when Undertaker was having a one-fall match with King Booker, The Great Khali interfered and knocked Undertaker out, but the Undertaker sat back up and clotheslined Khali over the ropes and then challanged The Great Khali for a Last man standing match at The Great American Bash, which The Great Khali accepted next week.

Theodore Long, GM of SMACKDOWN! however, insisted the match to happen at SMACKDOWN! instead. Some wrestling enthusiasts say that the decision was made because The Great Khali lacked in-ring abilities and would therefore be unsuccessful in putting up a good contest for the audience at the Great American Bash. The Real reason however was that The Great Khali was requiring surgery for both of his knees and the feud had to be ended early.

Memorable Memories: Khali with Undertaker (Knocked out)

Next week at SMACKDOWN! The Great Khali and The Undertaker went one on one for the Last Man Standing matchup, The Great Khali threw Undertaker through some tables but The Undertaker got up before the Ten count, after this, The Great Khali bought The Undertaker back to the ring and kept destroying him but couldnt make him fall to a ten count. The Undertaker then took charge and put Khali down, but Khali got back up on his feet, The Undertaker then smashed Khali through the steel steps and a lot of Chair shots and then Chokeslammed The Great Khali. The Undertaker, then, sat on the bottom turnbuckle out of exhaustion and watched The Great Khali’s desperate attempts to get back on his feet. But since The Great Khali was bleeding because of the Chair shots, he couldn’t get back up and The Undertaker thus won, which ended the feud between him and The Great Khali.

This was followed by some health issues for The Great Khali again (See the Health page). But by October his return was announced to be on The ECW Roster of WWE.

Continued on The ECW Page.

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On 11th June 2007, The Great Khali was drafted to Smackdown when Edge defeated John Cena. Therefore Khali is back to SMACKDOWN!

On the 29th of June 2007, The Great Khali squashed Eugene for a win.

18th July, 2007: Teddy long started things off with coming down and saying that Edge was unfortunately injured and therefore he would have to vacate the title belt. Edge came out and aired his tribute etc. Then Teddy Long said that the new champion will be determined by a 20 man battle royal match.

In this match, The Great Khali participated as well, the last three people were Batista, Kane and Khali, Khali threw both of his opponents out and hence FINALLY became the World Heavyweight Champion. It was then decided that there would be a one-on-one match between Kane and Batista that night for the main event so that the #1 contender for the title is decided for the execution of the match at The Great American Bash.

The Great Khali throwing Batista and Kane to win the championship

When the match was underway, Khali hit Batista which caused a disqualification, a not-so-happy-looking Teddy Long came out and told Khali that he will have to face both Batista and Kane for a Triple Threat Match at The Great American Bash with his title on the line.

The Great American Bash 2007
July 22, The Great Khali v/s Batista v/s Kane (Triple Threat match)

The Great Khali, Kane and Batista came out, Khali broke the ECW table open and flung the monitors away, preparing to give a taste of the table to his competitors, but Kane and Batista briefly teamed with each other and slammed Khali on the table instead, Batista and Kane then began fighting with each other. When Khali came back, Kane landed a Choke Slam on him but before Kane could pin him Batista began brawling with Kane again.

Batista then landed a spinebuster on Khali, but Kane saved Khali from being pinned and landed a Chokeslam on Batista. Kane went outside to get a Chair, but Batista countered with a Batista Bomb. He went for the pin, but Khali dragged him out and threw him away. He then landed a double handed chokeslam on Kane and pinned him to retain the World Heavyweight Championship.

On the next edition of Smackdown (24th July event, 27th July telecast) The Great Khali came out for a celebration, firstly some dancers came out (all of whom were not Indian, a few were white and some latino/mexican). Then Khali and Runjin Singh entered, Khali said in Hindi that “Gentlemen, this title you are seeing has not been stolen, it has not been conned, it has been won by me, you know this title isn’t sold in the markets, it cannot be brought at any cost but at strength, and thats how I have achieved it. I have won against everyone that came in my way square. And will continue to win in the future” Runjin then talked about how The Great Khali was one of the most famous Indians worldwide, and that he could be compared to the likes of Mother Teresa, M. Night Shyamalan, Bhagat Singh, Ravishankar etc. Runjin then said that Khali is the all time best Champion and now he would be celebrating and invites everyone to join the Punjabi style celebration.

The Great Khali at his celebration

Indian music played. Khali then looked really happy, smiled and danced through the party before Batista entered, Runjin told Batista to go away and not interfere the celebration, but Batista went on to challenge Khali for a one on one match for the World Heavyweight Championship, Khali denied, saying (in Hindi) that “Not Tonight, Tonight’s my celebration night, my party, NO!” in a response to which Batista came in, landed some blows on Khali and then speared him down, Khali went out of the ring and went away glaring at Batista.

Writer’s note: Khali had genuine happiness and was looking really happy and talked in the most gentle way possible, he actually resembled a REAL babyface character. Batista was the one who resembled a heel.

After this, The Great Khali feuded Batista for some time and retained his title through several occassions. Afterwards when Rey Mysterio came in and was crowned No. 1 contender, the Great Khali applied his Vice Grip on him and made Rey bleed from the mouth, Batista always rescued Rey from Khali’s attacks, however The Great Khali didn’t back down and kept attacking both Rey and Batista.

WWE Unforgiven
Khali v/s Batista v/s Rey Mysterio for the WHC

Things started off with Mysterio and Batista teaming up to toss Khali out of the ring, but Khali came back and threw mysterio away, he then unloaded on Batista who, after a while started getting the upper hand, he then teamed up with Rey to exhaust Khali. After this, Batista and Mysterio started brawling with each other. Khali came back and charged on Batista whilst Mysterio slid away, came back with a chair and hit Khali with it.

Khali threw Batista outside and then brawled with Rey. He got the upper hand and then applied the Vice Grip, Batista came in, and got Khali tied up in the ropes, Rey hurricanradaded Batista, 619′d Khali and 619′d Batista as well, went for the pin on Khali, got Batista bombed by Batista.

Batista then Batista Bombed Khali as well, and got the three count to win.

Result: Khali lost the WHC to Batista.

The Great Khali was signed by the World Wrestling Entertainment in January 2006 for a developmental contract, this meant that the Great Khali would be sent to the Deep South Wrestling division of the World Wresting Entertainment, Deep South Wrestling features people whom WWE wants to see in its main shows but believes that they still require some training.
He started wrestling in the Deep South Wrestling under the name of Dalip Singh. He had his first appearance in the Deep South Wrestling roster on 9th February 2006 when two wrestlers named Freakin Decon and Palmer Cannon were fighting with Tommy Dreamer but Khali came in and saved Tommy Dreamer from them. On February 16th, Khali was pitted in a Handicap match against the Tag team of The Slaughter Boys, whom Khali defeated with ease.

Afterwards a Feud resumed between Freakin Deacon and Palmer Cannon, Khali took the side of Palmer Cannon who was the face between the two as a face would ideally do. Khali helped Palmer Cannon a lot of times. Afterwards Freakin Deacon joined both of them as well and they all teamed up in a few matches. Khali’s Final match with Deep South Wrestling was on 30th March 2006 when he helped Freakin Deacon defeat Ray Gordy in a singles match.

After this match, Khali started appearing on WWE Smackdown from 7th April 2006. For more information see the “Khali on Smackdown!” section

The Great Khali debuted his wrestling career in October, 2000 when All Pro Wrestling made his first match against a Tag Team in APW known as The West Side Playaz 2000. His in ring name was Dalip Singh at that particular point of time. His partner in the tag team was a wrestler named Tony Jones. He went on to win his debut match.

The Great Khali then continued wrestling in the All Pro Wrestling, and continued training with them, learning new ways to wrestle all the time. He made a lot of friends in the wrestling community while being at the APW. However on May 28, 2001, while training at the APW with the Great Khali, a wrestler named Brian Ong made a mistake while taking a flapjack from The Great Khali and suffered a concussion which caused his death. Although it was NOT a mistake of Khali neither was Khali the cause of Brain Ong’s death. More details in the “Brian Ong Incident” page.

After Khali’s contract with the All Pro Wrestling expired, he went to Japan with the Japanese Wrestling Legend Masahiro Chono to sign up with the New Japan Pro Wrestling, the largest and the most famous Professional Wrestling company of Asia. Khali was named “Giant Singh” for his appearances in NJPW. Also accompanying Khali was the Brazilian Giant Paul Silva, better known as The Giant Silva, the Giant Silva had previously made a one-time appearance on the World Wrestling Entertainment’s RAW roster as well and was not new to Professional Wrestling.

Masahiro Chono, after getting both Khali and Silva signed up with New Japan Pro Wrestling, invented the Tag team between both of them known as “Club 7″. This name was given to their tag Team, because both Khali and Silva were over Seven Feet Tall. Khali was an impressive 7′3″ while Silva was just one inch short at 7′2″. The Club 7 Tag team has the world record of being the tallest Tag Team in the history of pro wrestling. Their combined weight exceeded 800 pounds as well, making them almost invincible.

The first match of the Club 7 tag team was a six man handicap match, in which Club 7 emerged victorious after ruining each of the other four wrestlers one by one. After many other successful matches, the first defeat came for Khali in New Japan Pro Wrestling when the Japanese wrestler Hiroyoshi Tanzan pinned him after cradling. (Cradling a wrestler is an alternative form of the shoulder-to-the-mat pin, where the attacking wrestler lifts the legs of the wrestler being pinned and applies his strength and weight into forcing the wrestler’s shoulders to be pinned to the mat). This happened in Tokyo on January 2002.

Besides this loss, Khali also lost to Manabu Nakanishi after Manabu put up an awesome Wrestling display and pinned The Great Khali. This loss came in March, 2002. Shortly after, the Tag team of Club 7 came to an end and was followed by a feud between Khali and Silva. In August 2002, a Singles match was organized between Silva and Khali in which Silva defeated him in a pinfall.

He continued wrestling in Japan for some more time until he took a leave from wrestling and went to India where he spent time with his family. In 2004, he was approached with a proposal to act in the Hollywood film “The Longest Yard”. More details can be found in “The Great Khali in Showbiz” page.

In January 2006, World Wrestling Entertainment took notice of Khali and put him in a contract.

Continued in “WWE and The Great Khali”

This section is for all the latest news on The Great Khali

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Finlay DEFEATS Khali via Pinfall
5/02/08

In the six man tag team match, the Great Khali was took out by Finlay who hit him with the Shillelagh when Hornswoggle came in and Distracted the referee. Finlay then pinned Khali for the victory.

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The Great Khali squashes Jamie
09/10/07

The Great Khali squashed Jamie Noble in a short match hence taking out his frustration of losing at No Mercy to Batista. This was btw the Tallest v/s Smallest of WWE match, with Khali at 7′3.5″ and Jamie at 5′7″

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Child attacked by Tiger at Khali’s Film
09/10/07

A 7 years old child was attacked by a Tiger at the shooting of the film Raam The Saviour in which The Great Khali is set to star in. The shooting was going on at Thailand, The Great Khali was not at the set however, since he was in the US.

The child hasn’t been harmed much however, and is doing good at a local hospital. But is in a state of mild shock. The Great Khali aka Dalip Singh has sent the child his good wishes so that she gets well soon. The producer of the film commented that the incident will not deter the progress of the film.

The Great Khali aka Dalip Singh is playing the role of a super hero in this film.

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The Great Khali loses at No Mercy
7th October 2007

The Great Khali has lost to Batista in the Punjabi Prison match at No Mercy. Batista landed outside the second cage a few seconds before The Great Khali which led Khali to lose yet again to The Animal Batista.