11 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About The Great Khali

8. One Of His Managers Was A WWE Writer

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When WWE first scouted the then Giant Singh, they saw two things: his undeniable bigness, and his probable foreignness. That was really enough to convince Vince McMahon he should be his next top heel.

Unfortunately, that's where the plan stopped. Khali's command of English wasn't quite what WWE expected of their on screen talent, essentially rendering the indomitable Indian something akin to a walking tree.

Like many before him, Khali was given a manager to do the talking for him. At first he was lumped with Daivari as part of his ongoing obsession to end The Undertaker. In the world of WWE where all foreign nationals are interchangable, being 'Iranian' was good enough to second an Indian wrestler.

After the pair split, a decidedly more frivolous Khali was placed with the spectacularly sideburned Ranjin Singh. Wait, who?

It was a question many WWE fans were asking, after Singh was seemingly plucked from the ether to aid Khali. That's not far from the truth; Singh, in actuality San Diego-born WWE staffer David Kapoor, was suddenly thrust on screen simply because he bore Indian ethnicity.

Considering he had no prior experience before the cameras, Singh was passably effective. He moved back upstairs in 2011, and remains on the WWE writing team to this day. Which might go someway to explaining Khali's re-emergence at Battleground.

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