10 Times WWE Got "The Guy" Wrong
8. The Great Khali
It doesn't take a genius to see what made Vince McMahon give an undefeated streak to and put the top strap on this guy.
Standing at incredible 7ft 1" tall and weighing a massive 347-pounds, The Great Khali had the numbers of an old school wrestling attraction - a giant that, on paper, looked like he genuinely could not be stopped.
And then the bell rang.
Unlike other more modern giants like Big Show, Braun Strowman, and Kane, Khali struggled to really move himself around the squared-circle, with his dodgy knees resulting in most of his plodding matches being a painful watch - even if his besting of The Undertaker early on was still a bit of a shock at the time.
Without Edge going down injured in the first place back in 2007, there's also a chance Khali may never have got his hands on the upside down big gold belt at all - but the decision to go with the 'Punjabi Playboy' as SmackDown's top champ for a spell after that injury just further exposed his limitations as a worker before Batista took away the gold at Unforgiven.
The combination of those lumbering displays in-between the ropes and not exactly riveting promos, due to not speaking all that much English, inevitably led to this becoming yet another failed WWE experiment.
He'd later settle into the role of a comedy performer on the roster.
Khali definitely wasn't cut out to be the guy, but he still did enough to earn himself a place in the Hall of Fame in 2021.