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The Great Khali made his first Smackdown appearance as an unnamed monster. At that moment of time there was a match for one fall going against The Undertaker and Mark Henry, because The Undertaker had a feud with Mark.

The Great Khali with Daivari on SMACKDOWN!

The Undertaker had almost won the match when The Great Khali made an appearance and totally destroyed The Undertaker, the match was thus declared as a no-contest. Shawn Daivari was The Great Khali's on screen manager at this time and he was also with Khali when he came and destroyed The Undertaker.

The next week at SMACKDOWN! The Great Khali made an appearance with Daivari again when Daivari Introduced the Great Khali to everyone. Daivari said things like "The Great Khali has stared into the abyss, and the Earth has trembled at his Gaze" "The Great Khali has wrestled the Royal Bengal Tiger" and "The Great Khali is from the Punjab Jungles of India". Nothing of this is true in real life, but it did provide a good on-screen start to The Great Khali.

Daivari praising The Great Khali

Afterwards Daivari gave the Microphone to The Great Khali, but the commentators could not understand what he said since The Great Khali was speaking in Hindi and Punjabi. There was no fighting involved in this appearance however. The Great Khali probably said "Undertaker, Main hoon Khali" followed by something in Punjabi which we at Khali.info could not understand.

The Great Khali shouting on the microphone

In the next edition of SMACKDOWN! The Great Khali made his debut in ring and his first match was against Sho Funaki which was a Squash match, The Great Khali defeated Funaki with ease while showing off the huge amount of physical strength he posesses.

On the 5th of May at SMACKDOWN! A fatal four way match between cruiserweights was taking place, the participants were Vito, Nunzio, Kid Kash and Super Crazy. The Great Khali interfered and knocked all four participants out cold and proceeded with his regular chants and display of power. All of the participants of the fatal four way match seemed like Toys in the hands of Khali, being thrown around the way they were.

At this moment of time there was a feud going on between Rey Mysterio and John Bradshaw Layfield (JBL), and JBL most supposedly "hired" The Great Khali as the assassin of Rey Mysterio. The match proceeded as JBL watched on as a guest commentator.

The infamous David versus Goliath Picture

Needless to say, the little Rey Mysterio couldn't compete all that well against The Great Khali and lost to him. A few wrestling enthusiasts have termed this particular fight in Wrestling History as the match between "David and Goliath" referring to the story in The Holy Bible. However David (Rey Mysterio) had little luck this time. This match was a non-title Match so The Great Khali did not win The World Heavyweight Championship from Mysterio.

The Great Khali's feud with The Undertaker had already began at this time, and in the SMACKDOWN! edition of next week, Shawn Daivari did a promotional appearance and talked against The Undertaker. The Great Khali shouted on the Microphone as well on this appearance, after this appearance, The Great Khali was given a matchup against The Undertaker on Judgment Day.

The Great Khali and Daivari Taunting the Undertaker

May 21st was a date The Great Khali will remember all of his life because that was the day he got his first shot in a Special Event of WWE, The Judgment Day, by this time The Great Khali had got a lot of heat from the supporters of The Undertaker and the match was much awaited for. It could also be noted that Judgment Day got a nice response this time from the WWE Fans, the audience turnout was nearly 16,000, about 6,000 people more from the last Judgment day in 2005.

The much anticipated matchup against The Undertaker saw The Great Khali dominating throughout, as he landed his Brainchops, Headbutts, Clotheslines, Double Handed Chokeslams on the Undertaker, The Great Khali LITERALLY destroyed The Undertaker at this event. The Great Khali then finished the match with his finishing move "The Big Boot" which he put to Undertaker's Chest. The Great Khali then proceeded to pin The Undertaker. The match ran for Eight Minutes and Thirty one seconds exact.

The Great Khali locking eyes with The Undertaker

After this match, The Great Khali took a brief hiatus off the WWE SMACKDOWN! and wrestled in a few matches at the DSW for sharpening his skills. However this time he appeared on the DSW as The Great Khali and not Dalip Singh. However on the Second date of June, The Great Khali appeared on Rowdy Roddy Piper's in-ring show at SMACKDOWN! called "The Piper's Pit" where The Great Khali put Rowdy out cold after Rowdy began praising the Undertaker and called Khali a wrestler with no skills.

On 9th June The Great Khali came back to SMACK DOWN! and attacked Paul London, Brian London and Super Crazy in their respective matches, throwing them here and there with ease just like he did last time. Next week on SMACKDOWN! he was put into a match against the Mexicools Tag team which featured the cruiserweights Super Crazy and Psichosis. Needless to say they could hardly put any competition against The Great Khali and failed miserably. With The Great Khali brainchopping them.

The Great Khali puts Super Crazy in a body Bag

It was at this particular point of time that The Great Khali started mocking the gimmick of The Undertaker which involved a blue light coming all over the arena and the Great Khali getting on one of his knees acting like the Phenom.

On 23rd June Tatanka was having a match for one fall against Simon Dean, when all of a sudden the Great Khali interfered and destroyed both of them, this caused the match to end in a no-contest. Post two weeks The Great Khali was put in a matchup against Tatanka which was scheduled for one fall. The Great Khali defeated Tatanka with ease just like he had defeated everyone else prior to this match.

The Great Khali wrestling Tatanka

With help from Daivari, The Great Khali then proceeded to put Tatanka in a black Body Bag and carried it to the locker room with him. But before carrying the body bag away, Daivari called out the Undertaker into the ring and challanged him to a Punjabi Prison match with The Undertaker, Daivari then shouted out at the Undertaker to respond to the challange, when the lights start going on and off and the arena was sounded with a message.

On July 15th at Saturday Night Main Event, Daivari called The Great Khali "The True Phenom of the WWE", upon hearing this, The Big Show came out and walked towards the ring. Paul Heyman was with The Big Show as well, The Big show told The Great Khali in a friendly tone "Whooo.... man YOU'RE A BIG BOY!". (Pointing out to Khali being taller than him) Then after a moment of self praising, The Big Show said that he was there to put Khali "over" (Putting someone over means to praise them in order to boost their confidence) and praised The Great Khali for what he had done to The Undertaker.

The Great Khali "Big Boy"

Afterwards The Undertaker came out and clotheslined The Great Khali over the top rope, but The Great Khali got back in, The Undertaker grabbed The Great Khali's throat with one hand and Big show's throat with the other, attempting for a duo chokeslam, but both Khali and Big show reversed the move and changed it to a Double chokeslam leaving the Undertaker out cold. The Big Show later commented in an interview that The Great Khali was dominant but not the EXTREME Giant (which was something he reserved for himself, since he is a real extremist, because he is very tall and at the same time very fat).

Three days later The Great Khali came and interfered in the match at ECW between The Big Show and The Undertaker when Khali and The Big Show chokeslammed Undertaker through the Announcer's table. The match was declared a no-contest and not a Disqualification because it was The Great Khali who interfered and it was involuntary on The Big Show's part.

After this WWE SMACKDOWN began hyping up the long awaited matchup between The Undertaker and The Great Khali at The Great American Bash which was going to happen on 23rd July. However The Great Khali was removed from the match one day before because of off-screen Health reasons (See Khali's Health). On SMACKDOWN! the removal was worded as a "Suspension because of attacking the Undertaker".

The Punjabi Prison match then took place between The Big Show and The Undertaker. In which The Undertaker won by escaping the Prison's bamboo walls. Afterwards when Undertaker was having a one-fall match with King Booker, The Great Khali interfered and knocked Undertaker out, but the Undertaker sat back up and clotheslined Khali over the ropes and then challanged The Great Khali for a Last man standing match at The Great American Bash, which The Great Khali accepted next week.

Theodore Long, GM of SMACKDOWN! however, insisted the match to happen at SMACKDOWN! instead. Some wrestling enthusiasts say that the decision was made because The Great Khali lacked in-ring abilities and would therefore be unsuccessful in putting up a good contest for the audience at the Great American Bash. The Real reason however was that The Great Khali was requiring surgery for both of his knees and the feud had to be ended early.

Memorable Memories: Khali with Undertaker (Knocked out)

Next week at SMACKDOWN! The Great Khali and The Undertaker went one on one for the Last Man Standing matchup, The Great Khali threw Undertaker through some tables but The Undertaker got up before the Ten count, after this, The Great Khali bought The Undertaker back to the ring and kept destroying him but couldnt make him fall to a ten count. The Undertaker then took charge and put Khali down, but Khali got back up on his feet, The Undertaker then smashed Khali through the steel steps and a lot of Chair shots and then Chokeslammed The Great Khali. The Undertaker, then, sat on the bottom turnbuckle out of exhaustion and watched The Great Khali's desperate attempts to get back on his feet. But since The Great Khali was bleeding because of the Chair shots, he couldn't get back up and The Undertaker thus won, which ended the feud between him and The Great Khali.

This was followed by some health issues for The Great Khali again (See the Health page). But by October his return was announced to be on The ECW Roster of WWE.

Continued on The ECW Page.

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On 11th June 2007, The Great Khali was drafted to Smackdown when Edge defeated John Cena. Therefore Khali is back to SMACKDOWN!

On the 29th of June 2007, The Great Khali squashed Eugene for a win.

18th July, 2007: Teddy long started things off with coming down and saying that Edge was unfortunately injured and therefore he would have to vacate the title belt. Edge came out and aired his tribute etc. Then Teddy Long said that the new champion will be determined by a 20 man battle royal match.

In this match, The Great Khali participated as well, the last three people were Batista, Kane and Khali, Khali threw both of his opponents out and hence FINALLY became the World Heavyweight Champion. It was then decided that there would be a one-on-one match between Kane and Batista that night for the main event so that the #1 contender for the title is decided for the execution of the match at The Great American Bash.

The Great Khali throwing Batista and Kane to win the championship

When the match was underway, Khali hit Batista which caused a disqualification, a not-so-happy-looking Teddy Long came out and told Khali that he will have to face both Batista and Kane for a Triple Threat Match at The Great American Bash with his title on the line.

The Great American Bash 2007

July 22, The Great Khali v/s Batista v/s Kane (Triple Threat match)

The Great Khali, Kane and Batista came out, Khali broke the ECW table open and flung the monitors away, preparing to give a taste of the table to his competitors, but Kane and Batista briefly teamed with each other and slammed Khali on the table instead, Batista and Kane then began fighting with each other. When Khali came back, Kane landed a Choke Slam on him but before Kane could pin him Batista began brawling with Kane again.

Batista then landed a spinebuster on Khali, but Kane saved Khali from being pinned and landed a Chokeslam on Batista. Kane went outside to get a Chair, but Batista countered with a Batista Bomb. He went for the pin, but Khali dragged him out and threw him away. He then landed a double handed chokeslam on Kane and pinned him to retain the World Heavyweight Championship.

On the next edition of Smackdown (24th July event, 27th July telecast) The Great Khali came out for a celebration, firstly some dancers came out (all of whom were not Indian, a few were white and some latino/mexican). Then Khali and Runjin Singh entered, Khali said in Hindi that "Gentlemen, this title you are seeing has not been stolen, it has not been conned, it has been won by me, you know this title isn't sold in the markets, it cannot be brought at any cost but at strength, and thats how I have achieved it. I have won against everyone that came in my way square. And will continue to win in the future" Runjin then talked about how The Great Khali was one of the most famous Indians worldwide, and that he could be compared to the likes of Mother Teresa, M. Night Shyamalan, Bhagat Singh, Ravishankar etc. Runjin then said that Khali is the all time best Champion and now he would be celebrating and invites everyone to join the Punjabi style celebration.

The Great Khali at his celebration

Indian music played. Khali then looked really happy, smiled and danced through the party before Batista entered, Runjin told Batista to go away and not interfere the celebration, but Batista went on to challenge Khali for a one on one match for the World Heavyweight Championship, Khali denied, saying (in Hindi) that "Not Tonight, Tonight's my celebration night, my party, NO!" in a response to which Batista came in, landed some blows on Khali and then speared him down, Khali went out of the ring and went away glaring at Batista.

Writer's note: Khali had genuine happiness and was looking really happy and talked in the most gentle way possible, he actually resembled a REAL babyface character. Batista was the one who resembled a heel.

After this, The Great Khali feuded Batista for some time and retained his title through several occassions. Afterwards when Rey Mysterio came in and was crowned No. 1 contender, the Great Khali applied his Vice Grip on him and made Rey bleed from the mouth, Batista always rescued Rey from Khali's attacks, however The Great Khali didn't back down and kept attacking both Rey and Batista.

WWE Unforgiven

Khali v/s Batista v/s Rey Mysterio for the WHC

Things started off with Mysterio and Batista teaming up to toss Khali out of the ring, but Khali came back and threw mysterio away, he then unloaded on Batista who, after a while started getting the upper hand, he then teamed up with Rey to exhaust Khali. After this, Batista and Mysterio started brawling with each other. Khali came back and charged on Batista whilst Mysterio slid away, came back with a chair and hit Khali with it.

Khali threw Batista outside and then brawled with Rey. He got the upper hand and then applied the Vice Grip, Batista came in, and got Khali tied up in the ropes, Rey hurricanradaded Batista, 619'd Khali and 619'd Batista as well, went for the pin on Khali, got Batista bombed by Batista.

Batista then Batista Bombed Khali as well, and got the three count to win.

Result: Khali lost the WHC to Batista.

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On the next edition of Smackdown, The Great Khali interefered in a Mark Henry v/s Batista match. Chokebombed Batista, Undertaker came in. A match was set up Mark Henry and Khali v/s Batista and The Undertaker. Undertaker won it for his team and Batista bombed Khali while the pin was happening.