10 Times Wrestlers Couldn’t Hide What They Were Doing

2. Shawn Michaels Helps Out The Great Khali - Royal Rumble 2007

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Dunk on Shawn Michaels for the perceived mess he's making in his current role as an NXT/Performance Center gaffer, or for all the staring at the hands of his second run, or - as has been the case in this very list - his sh*thousery in his first one, but god bless (and he'd like that) him for trying to make a middling Great Khali moment that little bit better in the 2007 Royal Rumble.

The giant had run roughshod on the cluttered field as monsters are wont to do in the, but rarely did a Khali moment pass without the Indian megastar inadvertently showing his inexperience.

Michaels tried to gamely to rectify that for the good of the presentation, shouting and pointing towards the future World Heavyweight Champion to do his pose for the hard camera after a spree of eliminations. It was valiant enough, but 'HBK' required an unusual amount of volume to get the attention of the big man - so much so that the audio has been turned down on the Network edition of show.

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