10 Wrestlers You Were Too Embarrassed To Admit You Loved
9. The Great Khali
The Great Khali tops many lists as one of the worst wrestlers to ever compete in WWE based on his rather clumsy in-ring style and often-unintelligible promos, but these laboured criticisms look past some of the moments from a man so great it was quite literally his middle name.
Khali was believably fearsome so early into his run because he was absolutely f*cking massive. Khali was every bit as over in India as those glowing video packages suggested because he gave the nation a WWE hero they'd never really had. Khali legitimately looked unstoppable...before he was repeatedly stopped.
The Great Khali was also pretty funny.
Embracing the stupidity of the organisation after he'd outlived his usefulness as a heel, Khali's 'Punjabi Playboy' schtick was an inoffensive palette cleanser. Loaded with pictures of him stoically appreciating everything ordinary in his extraordinary life, his social media game subverted the traditional wrestler-on-the-road patter with magnificent aplomb. His belt-stealing one night return in 2017 was the best thing about Jinder Mahal's entire torrid time with the title. Yes, he was objectively atrocious at his worst, but a Khali brought so much more to the moment than 'The Modern Day Maharaja' than just an actual audience.