10 Wrestlers Who Shouldn't Return For WWE's Brand Split 2016 This Week
1. The Great Khali
Think about all the great professional wrestlers that have risen to prominence in WWE lately. Consider names like Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens: elite level performers with athleticism, technical ability, and charisma. Seasoned on the indy scene and polished at the Performance Centre, they’re the kind of wrestlers who make WWE worth watching.
Then consider The Great Khali. Gigantic, slow, unsteady, and incapable of mumbling anything other than the odd slurred sentence or incoherent grunt, he is the antithesis of a modern day WWE wrestler. Khali is the perfect example of a wrestler being signed solely for his image, and to bring him back at this stage would be a huge step backwards for a company that’s made great leaps and bounds with its signing procedures.
Other than the man himself, nobody’s clamouring to see The Great Khali back in WWE. The guy could barely execute a big boot without botching, and genuinely looked like he had trouble walking around the ring at times, let alone trying to wrestle. Being huge just isn’t enough, and The Great Khali is living proof of that.
From 2007’s infamous Punjabi Prison match to his WrestleMania 23 stinker against Kane, The Great Khali’s back catalogue is a mess. He might’ve been useful as WWE’s Indian ambassador, but he had no value as an in-ring competitor or personality in 2006, let alone 10 years later.