10 Wrestlers WWE Tried To Push To The Top (But Failed)

7. The Great Khali

Of course, there have been men with even less athletic ability than Mabel who have been given major pushes by WWE over the years. Vince McMahon has long had a fascination with giants and will usually push them ahead of smaller, more talented wrestlers. The Great Khali is, from a technical standpoint, one of the worst wrestlers ever. But he also has that car crash quality to him: you want to look away, but you can't. There's something oddly mesmeric about watching the 7ft tall, dangerously uncoordinated giant lumber around and throw feeble chops and kicks. Khali entered WWE with a bang, easily defeating The Undertaker in his first pay-per-view match at Judgement Day in 2006. Essentially a squash match, Khali pinned 'Taker with one foot on his chest. WWE continued to book Khali strongly for the next year and he tangled with John Cena over the WWE Championship in the spring of 2007. Later that year WWE actually did the unthinkable and put the World Heavyweight Championship on Khali on the July 20th episode of Smackdown. Fans were stunned. Khali had always been protected, but few could have imagined that he would actually win the title. Khali continued to be in the championship mix after losing the title to Batista and even had a shockingly good match against Triple H at SummerSlam 2008. After that he was turned into the 'Punjabi Playboy' and used for comic relief, rather than as a serious title contender. Still, WWE tried with Khali but it was just never going to last, was it?