10 Most Impactful WWE Draft Picks
10. The Great Khali To SmackDown (2007)
Hold on. Hold on. Don't click out of this article yet! I’m not saying this was a GOOD pick, but it was actually a very impactful one with the way it played out. In 2007, The Great Khali was chosen to go over to SmackDown. Lucky for him, Edge had to vacate the Heavyweight Title a few weeks later. The gold was then put up for grabs in a 20-man battle royal, which Khali won by eliminating Batista and Kane at the same time.
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It was the era of Khali! Well, no. Not really. But had the Punjami Playboy not jumped ship when he did, then we wouldn’t ever have got to talk about a Great Khali World Title reign. And where as a society would we be if we didn’t have that?