Son of legendary wrestler Tiger Jeet Singh, Canadian Tiger Ali Singh's signing with WWF was a SkyDome affair. Quickly, he was booked on an overseas WWF tour where he won the second Kuwait Cup Tournament defeating Owen Hart in the finals. After a low profile WWF TV debut in August 1997 (alongside Iron Sheik and his dad), Tiger Ali Singh resurfaced in Fall 1998 now with a manservant named Babu (ECW's Pablo Marquez). Again, most of his appearances were on perpherial WWF television such as Saturday Night Shotgun and Sunday Night Heat defeating jobbers and losing to low-midcarders. After a stint in Puerto Rico (part of an informal developmental deal), Singh returned in late 2000 as a manager/third member of Lo Down (former Headbanger Chaz "Mosh" Warrington and former NOD member D-Lo Brown). However, his WWF career unceremonious ended with him being pushed aside during The InVasion. Instead, Singh worked for IWA where he was injured was wrestling in the rain in Puerto Rico. His contract was terminated in July 2002 and Singh's final legacy was a multi-million dollar lawsuit against WWF alleging discrimination (stuffing his turban with garbage, insulting nicknames) and unsafe working conditions (for the IWA injury). It didn't go far. Needless to say, Singh, already considered a mediocre wrestler, has not been invited back into the WWE.
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