The Great Khali Dethrones Roman Reigns as WWE's Social Media King
In an unexpected twist, The Great Khali has surpassed Roman Reigns in social media popularity, claiming the title of the most prominent WWE personality online. ...
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REVIEW: ECW On Sci Fi – October 30, 2007: Mashy
Welcome to KB’s Old School (and New School) Reviews. I’ve been reviewing wrestling shows for over twelve years now and have reviewed over 6,000 shows. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I’ll be posting a new review here on Wrestlingrumors.net. It could be anything from modern WWE to old school to indies to anything in between. Note that I rate using letters instead of stars and I don’t rate matches under three minutes as really, how good or bad can something that short be? ECW On Sci Fi Date: October 30, 2007 Location: Nassau Coliseum, New York City, New York Attendance: 12,300 Commentators: Joey Styles, Tazz It’s the Halloween special and this time around that means we have the Monster Mash four man battle royal between Kane, Great Khali, Mark Henry and Big Daddy V. They are leaning heavily into the freak show idea here and that is not a bad idea. I could go for seeing what else they have going on here now that Cyber Sunday is gone so let’s get to it. We open with a Halloween them..
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REVIEW: No Mercy 2007: This Is A Weird One
Welcome to KB’s Old School (and New School) Reviews. I’ve been reviewing wrestling shows for over twelve years now and have reviewed over 6,000 shows. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I’ll be posting a new review here on Wrestlingrumors.net. It could be anything from modern WWE to old school to indies to anything in between. Note that I rate using letters instead of stars and I don’t rate matches under three minutes as really, how good or bad can something that short be? No Mercy 2007 Date: October 7, 2007 Location: Allstate Arena, Chicago, Illinois Attendance: 12,500 Commentators: Jim Ross, Joey Styles, Jerry Lawler, Tazz, John Bradshaw Layfield, Michael Cole It’s time for a special show as John Cena is no longer the WWE Champion due to suffering an injury on Raw. Therefore we are guaranteed a new champion, though it is not clear how the title will be decided. Other than that, the Smackdown side features Batista defending the World Title against Great Khali in a Punjabi Prison ma..
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REVIEW: Great American Bash 2007: The Showdown Match
Welcome to KB’s Old School (and New School) Reviews. I’ve been reviewing wrestling shows for over twelve years now and have reviewed over 6,000 shows. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I’ll be posting a new review here on Wrestlingrumors.net. It could be anything from modern WWE to old school to indies to anything in between. Note that I rate using letters instead of stars and I don’t rate matches under three minutes as really, how good or bad can something that short be? Great American Bash 2007 Date: July 22, 2007 Location: HP Pavilion, San Jose, California Attendance: 13,034 Commentators: Michael Cole, John Bradshaw Layfield, Jim Ross, Jerry Lawler, Joey Styles, Tazz It’s a bit of a weird show as we have the big fight between John Cena and Bobby Lashley for the Raw World Title, but the Smackdown World Title is a little screwy. Edge was forced to vacate the title due to an injury, with Great Khali becoming the new champion via a battle royal. Therefore, it’s Khali defending again..
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WWE Once Had Some Different Plans For The Intercontinental TItle
What could have been. Winning a title is one of the most important things that a wrestler can do in their career. It is a symbol that you have arrived and that the promotion you are working for sees something in you. There are a lot of titles floating around WWE these days but picking up some gold still means a lot no matter what it may be. One recently released wrestlers was ready to win something, but then plans changed in a sad way. Dirty Dango, formerly known as Fandango in WWE, was a guest on Insights with Chris Van Vliet and revealed that he was scheduled to win the Intercontinental Title. Dango was scheduled to win the title but was then suffered a concussion during a match with Great Khali. Rather than explaining this to WWE, Dango continued to wrestle and was concussed again during a match with Zack Ryder. WWE then found out that he was injured and pulled him off the road. Dango said he believed Curtis Axel went on to win the title, which took place on June 16, 2013, less tha..
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WWE Star Teases Bringing Back An Infamous Gimmick Match
Welcome back? There are all kinds of different matches in the wrestling world and some of them are a lot more unique than others. You don’t get to see all of them every week as it could get dull in a hurry. Sometimes a promotion finds a match that it only busts out in extreme situations, with WWE being no exception. One such match be making it’s return soon. In a new interview with El Brunch de WWE, Jinder Mahal discussed the history of the Punjabi Prison match. Mahal mentioned that Great Khali designed the match and then appeared to help Mahal win his edition of the match against Randy Orton at Battleground 2017. While Mahal said that he did not want to have too many matches inside the structure, he did want to face Drew McIntyre in such a match. No match between the two has been announced as of yet, though they are feuding. The Punjabi Prison match consists of a pair of cages made of bamboo surrounding the ring. A series of doors can be opened, allowing a wrestler to move from one ..
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Surprising Former WWE Star Tells Of Bullying Great Khali
That’s an odd pairing. WWE has had all kinds of wrestlers over the years, with some of them being quite different than the norm. That is the kind of thing that is going to get more interest and attention than some others, which is the point in having so many different people out there. Now one of the more unique wrestlers in WWE has history has a story about an even more unique wrestler. During an appearance on the Such Good Shoot podcast, former WWE star Swoggle spoke about bullying Great Khali during his time in WWE. Swoggle said that he intentionally bullied Great Khali every change he had, as he wanted to make a point and felt that bullying no one else would matter. He also understood that this is something which would be frowned upon today as times have changed. There is no word on how Great Khali responded to the bullying or what exactly Swoggle did. The two of them actually had some time together on television. Check out the podcast and what they did together as a team: [This..
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Here Is Why The Big Show Missed The Greatest Royal Rumble
Dave Meltzer provided some insight into why Raw Superstar The Big Show was not involved in the 50-man Royal Rumble match at the Greatest Royal Rumble. Show was one of the Superstars advertised to appear in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for the Greatest Royal Rumble show late last week. However, he wasn’t there. During the Wrestling Observer Radio, Meltzer had the following to say on why Show wasn’t available for the match: “Big Show was injured about three weeks ago again he was coming back from his injury and he got reinjured. So that’s why he wasn’t in the match. I don’t know how severe but it was severe enough. They wanted him in this match you could tell because look at all those big guys they brought in and except for [the Great Khali] you know [Big Show] is the biggest guy.” “But Big Show got hurt. Hopefully, it’s nothing serious.” Wrestling Rumors will continue to update you as more information does become available on his status, and when he is expected to return to in-ring competiti..
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Fight Size Update: Mae Young Classic, United Kingdom Tournament, Young Bucks Texting CM Punk
This is the Fight Size Update for the evening of April 19th. - In the video above, Pro Wrestling Unlimited discuss the advertisement that may have leaked the Great Khali and Rey Mysterio Jr being in the 50 Man Royal Rumble at the Greatest Royal Rumble event. - IMPACT Wrestling returns to pay-per-view this Sunday, April 22 for Redemption, emanating from the IMPACT Zone in Orlando, Fla. The three-hour event kicks off at 8:00 p.m. ET and will be available globally on cable, satellite and digital pay-per-view, including DISH, DirecTV, iN Demand, Vubiquity, Rogers, Bell, Shaw and the FITE.tv live streaming app for a suggested retail price of $39.95. - Impact Wrestling Redemption will be available exclusively in the U.K. for subscribers of the Global Wrestling Network (GWN) digital multi-platform app. A premium subscription is priced at US$7.99 with a 30-day free trial available for new members. Redemption will premiere exclusively on GWN in the U.K. on Wednesday, April 25 ahead of next..
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Fight Size Update: Unannounced Wrestlers Advertised For Greatest Royal Rumble, Bruce Prichard's WWE Network Show, And More
This is the Fight Size Update for the evening of April 18th. - AJ Styles will take on Shinsuke Nakamura at the Greatest Royal Rumble event. Pro Wrestling Unlimited discusses that in the video at the top of this page. - On the WWE Network website, an image advertising the Greatest Royal Rumble features Great Khali, Rey Mysterio Jr, Big Show, and Mark Henry. None of these wrestlers have been officially announced but Big Show has been featured in some video packages. The Image from @WWENetwork with Great Khali and Rey Mysterio Jr. pic.twitter.com/7We0llFXUM — Handsome Pat Fannin (@Patrick_Fannin) April 18, 2018 - WWE released two videos with AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura talking about their match in Saudi Arabia. - WWE wrestlers spoke about Bruno Sammartino on YouTube in the wake of the legend's passing. Some of the interviews were recorded before his passing. - Fightful's flagship podcast The List And Ya Boy covered the legacy of Bruno Sammartino today. - WWE di..
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Three Fights Added To UFC Fight Night Singapore, Including OSP
A trio of bouts are now set for the UFC Fight Night Singapore card as #8 Ovince St. Preux faces #12 Tyson Pedro, Jake Matthews faces Shinsho Anzai and Matt Schnell faces Naoki Inoue. St. Preux (22-11-0) has won three of his last four under the UFC banner, but is coming off of a loss to Ilir Latifi at UFC On Fox 28. St. Preux has previously challenged for the UFC Interim Light Heavyweight Title, losing to then champion Jon Jones at UFC 197. Pedro (7-1-0) has won three of four fights during his UFC tenure, with those wins coming over Khalil Rountree, Paul Craig and Saparbek Safarov. Pedro has earned seven wins as a professional MMA fighter, with all of those victories coming in the opening round. Matthews (13-3-0) enters the contest in the midst of a two fight winning streak, defeating the duo of Bojan Velickovic and Li Jingliang. Matthews has seen his last three fights go the distance and it has been almost two years since the fighter got a finish. Anzai (10-2-0) comes into the fig..
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WWE SmackDown Live Results – July 25 2017
<p>Welcome to SmackDown Live, only 48 hours removed from the Battleground PPV!</p><p>Jinder Mahal retained the WWE Championship against Randy Orton in the Punjabi Prison match. However, to nobody’s surprise, Orton wasn’t beaten one-on-one. In fact, it took FOUR guys for Mahal to retain, including himself, The Singh Brothers, and the return of The Great Khali. Look, I don’t like the fact that Mahal is being booked so weak, nor does the return of Khali excite me, but I do like the concept of Mahal having an impressive entourage. Mahal is a beatable Champion but he has two lackeys who will go through hell for him, and a giant to be the muscle. It’s a great sight and I’m excited to see where WWE go next with the Punjabi Posse.</p><p>Kevin Owens won the United States Championship from AJ Styles at WWE Battleground. The match itself was fine but the finish left almost everyone scratching their heads. There was a seemingly unnecessary ref bump, a series of submissions in which nobody tapped, and then a weak roll-up to finish an anti-climatic match. It definitely was a blemish on a match that was only starting to get good. However, it’s likely we’ll get the rubber match between the two at SummerSlam and so the feud will continue tonight. That being said, there are rumours that last-minute plan changes were made to allow AJ to leap into a feud with Jinder Mahal. Either way, we’ll find out soon!</p><p>The New Day won the SmackDown Tag Team Championship’s on Sunday night, following the best match on the entire card. The match was fantastic and it felt like the right time to put the titles on The New Day. It’s unclear if we’re going to get a third showdown between the two teams at SummerSlam, but seeing as SmackDown’s tag division is pretty lacking, it seems likely. I’m fine with another month of these two teams going at it but in the meantime WWE really has to build a credible contender to New Day. Speaking of other teams, The Fashion Police were once again attacked on Sunday night and we’re no closer to figuring out who perpetrated the attacks. Rumour has it that Luke Harper and Erick Rowan are behind it, and I really hope that’s the case because they could be credible contender’s to the New Day should they beat The Fashion Police.</p><p><strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/wrestler/natalya" title="Natalya">Natalya</a></strong> won the Five-Way Elimination Match at WWE Battleground on Sunday night, which means she will face <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/wrestler/naomi" title="Naomi">Naomi</a></strong> at SummerSlam for the Women’s Championship. These two could have a good match but I worry about the feud when it comes to the microphone. That being said, WWE would do well to include Carmella in the feud and she could easily make it more interesting in the promo department, as well as give Naomi another thing to worry about.</p><p>That’s the preview for tonight’s show, which is likely to feature the continued feuds between Corbin and Nakamura, as well as <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/wrestler/sami-zayn" title="Sami Zayn">Sami Zayn</a></strong> and Mike Kanellis. Don’t forget to check out the Ringside News app and get talking on the Ringside Talk app! Enjoy the show!</p>
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Jinder Mahal Possibly Not Defending the WWE Title at SummerSlam
<p>As seen at Sunday’s WWE Battleground event, The Great Khali returned to the company and helped assist Jinder Mahal retain his WWE Championship Title against <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/wrestler/randy-orton" title="Randy Orton">Randy Orton</a></strong> in a Punjabi Prison match.</p><p>Bryan Alvarez mentioned on today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Live that the company could be moving towards a tag match between The Great Khali and <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/tag/randy/" title="Randy">Randy</a></strong> Orton at this year’s SummerSlam. It was noted earlier today that <a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/2017/07/24/reason-great-khali-returned-wwe-revealed/">Khali was brought back to the company</a> to help get Jinder over. If a tag match at SummerSlam is the plan, that would mean that Jinder would be teaming with Khali at the event. This would also mean that the WWE Championship title will not be defended on the card.</p><p>We should have a clearer understand after Tuesday’s episode of SmackDown Live in the direction the company is going. The original plan was for Mahal to defend the WWE Championship against <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/wrestler/johncena" title="John Cena">John Cena</a></strong> but those plans could now be off the table.</p>
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Jinder Mahal Teases Match Against John Cena
<p>After his victory against <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/wrestler/randy-orton" title="Randy Orton">Randy Orton</a></strong> at Sunday’s WWE Battleground event, WWE Champion Jinder Mahal spoke with <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/wwe-wrestling/with-the-great-khali-behind-me-i-am-truly-unstoppable-jinder-mahal-4765072/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Indian Express</a> and teased a possible match against <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/wrestler/johncena" title="John Cena">John Cena</a></strong>.</p><p><em>“I put the ‘vipers’ legacy to rest. I beat a fourteen time World Champion three times in a row. Whose legacy am I going to put to rest – maybe John Cena. He has a legacy of his own, I would like love nothing more than to use his legacy as a stepping <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/tag/stone/" title="stone">stone</a></strong> and cement my own legacy.”</em></p><p>It’s been rumored for a while now that they may actually compete against each other over of the WWE Championship at this year’s SummerSlam. It should be known what direction they are going with the WWE Championship title at SummerSlam after this week’s SmackDown Live episode.</p>
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Jinder Mahal Reacts to The Great Khali’s WWE Return
<p>After his victory against <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/wrestler/randy-orton" title="Randy Orton">Randy Orton</a></strong> at Sunday’s WWE Battleground event, WWE Champion Jinder Mahal spoke with <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/wwe-wrestling/with-the-great-khali-behind-me-i-am-truly-unstoppable-jinder-mahal-4765072/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Indian Express</a> and talked about The Great <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/tag/khali/" title="Khali">Khali</a></strong>’s return to WWE.</p><p><em>“Not only on SmackDown live but also on the entire WWE, I run the show and call the shots. With the Great Khali behind me, I am truly unstoppable. I have a great relationship with Khali, he is like my older brother. As Indians, we stick together. He was the first person I contacted after announcing the Punjabi Prison Match. We are in contact all the time and he is one of my role models and I want to follow his footsteps. He has helped put India on the map of WWE and I hope he is happy with my performance at Battleground.”</em></p><p>As previously noted, WWE decided to bring <a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/2017/07/24/reason-great-khali-returned-wwe-revealed/">Khali in to help give Jinder a rub</a>. The feeling right now is that Jinder isn’t very popular in India, despite being WWE Champion. The belief is that aligning Jinder with Khali will help him in the long run in-<strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/tag/terms/" title="terms">terms</a></strong> of popularity in India.</p>
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Former WWE Superstar Returning at Tonight’s WWE Battleground Event?
<p>There is a rumor going around that former WWE Superstar The Great <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/tag/khali/" title="Khali">Khali</a></strong> is backstage in Philadelphia for tonight’s WWE Battleground event.</p><p>While Khali has not been confirmed to appear on camera tonight, it’s been speculated that he may appear in the main event match of <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/wrestler/randy-orton" title="Randy Orton">Randy Orton</a></strong> vs. Jinder Mahal for the WWE Championship given his connection with the Punjabi Prison match. One of our readers also sent word that Khali posted photos of himself at the airport and on an airplane earlier this morning.</p><p></p><p>Khali last appeared for WWE on the October 31st, 2014 episode of SmackDown in a losing effort to <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/wrestler/rusev" title="Rusev">Rusev</a></strong>. Khali left the company once his contract expired on November 13th, 2014th.</p><p>You can check out our full on-going coverage of tonight’s show <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/2017/07/23/wwe-battleground-2/">at this link</a></strong> and also you can join us for our LIVE fan discussion on <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidetalk.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ringsidetalk.net</a></strong>!</p>
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The Taz Show Recap – Smackdown Analysis, Carmella Wins Again, Where’s Tye Dillinger? More!
<p>Taz opens today’s show speaking about last night’s episode of Smackdown Live.</p><p>He says that it was nice to see Carmella scale the ladder and claim the Money in the Bank briefcase on her own this time, but <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/wrestler/james-ellsworth" title="James Ellsworth">James Ellsworth</a></strong> found a way to get back into the building and got involved in the match again, even after being banned from the building by GM Daniel <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/tag/bryan/" title="Bryan">Bryan</a></strong>.</p><p></p><p>Taz thinks that Daniel Bryan and/or Shane McMahon need to do something to maintain their credibility moving forward, such as suspending Ellsworth for some amount of time. Bryan specifically ordered Ellsworth to stay out of the building and Ellsworth ignored him. Taz says that Bryan needs to show Ellsworth who’s boss.</p><p>He thought that <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/wrestler/randy-orton" title="Randy Orton">Randy Orton</a></strong> cut a good, convincing promo last night and Mahal’s interruption was well done as well. He’s exciting to see the return of the Punjabi Prison match, but if he was WWE he wouldn’t have had Mahal talk nicely about The Great Khali. Taz says that Mahal should be a dirty, nasty heel who shouldn’t talk nicely about anyone.</p>