WWE Hall of Famer The Great Khali was Chris Van Vliet’s latest guest on Insight, and two quotes have the interview caught the wrestle web’s fancy today (July 7).
In one, Khali and CVV discuss how the giant from India went from taking out Undertaker in his 2006 SmackDown debut…
… to this shortly before his contract expired in 2014…
Watching at the time, you might have thought that was because the seven-footer (real name Dalip Singh) was no longer perceived as a threat after his feuds with the likes Taker
and John Cena. But not so, Khali told Van Vliet:
“I just say I didn’t want to work more WWE, you know. After WWE found out, he was thinking ‘yeah, Khali wants to leave, he wants to leave, he wants to leave… So then he made me like a comedy wrestler because he wants to kill my character. That’s true.”
The 53-year-old former WWE World Heavyweight champ also discussed his impending knee replacement surgeries, and the impact his ailing knees have on him day-to-day:
“I just want to take a break a little bit then I want to [get the] surgery but I’m just every day busy, busy, busy. First I want to first do one then maybe later maybe you know.”
“I’m sitting and no pain when I especially take the stairs, there’s pain and long time straining and pain otherwise I’m fine. This is okay. I can do exercise. I can do anything only when I walk and just take the stairs.”
Despite having teased some wild comeback plans in an a pre-WrestleMania interview this year, Khali now says any comeback would have to be on a one or two-shot deal, and even for another Royal Rumble appearance, he doesn’t sound interested:
“Yeah, I retired… never know but I don’t want to go. Maybe WWE asking, ‘Will you come one day?’ then I can go. But just one, two day — not full time. Never. I because my bad knee so I can’t go full time.”
Anything surprise you here? Let us know in the comments, and here’s Khali and CVV’s full conversation.
