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Mutt and Jeff
Overland Monthly ad (January 1916)[1]
Author(s)
Bud Fisher, Al Smith, George Breisacher
Website
gocomics.com/muttandjeff/
Current status / schedule
concluded; reruns
Launch date
November 15, 1907
End date
June 26, 1983
Alternate name(s)
A. Mutt
Syndicate(s)
King Features Syndicate, Wheeler Syndicate, Bell Syndicate, Field Newspaper Syndicate
Genre(s)
humor
Mutt and Jeff as reprinted in All-American Comics #51 (1943).
Mutt and Jeff is a long-running and widely popular American newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Bud Fisher in 1907 about "two mismatched tinhorns". Historians regard Mutt and Jeff, originally titled A. Mutt, as the first American newspaper cartoon published as a strip of panels, as opposed to a single panel, making it the first "comic strip" to successfully pioneer that since-common format.
The "Mutt and Jeff" comic strip remained in syndication until 1983, employing the talents of several cartoonists, chiefly Al Smith who drew the strip for nearly fifty years. The series eventually became a comic book, initially published by All-American Publications and later published by DC Comics, Dell Comics and Harvey Comics. Later it was also published as cartoons, films, pop culture merchandise and reprints.
Contents
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1 Syndicated success
2 Characters and story
3 Cicero's Cat
4 Comic books and reprints
5 Stage shows and sheet music
5.1 Program from Mutt and Jeff Divorced (1920)
6 Motion pictures
6.1 Live-action
6.2 Animation
7 In popular culture
8 References
9 External links
Syndicated success[edit]
Harry Conway "Bud" Fisher was a sports cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle in the early 1900s, a time when a newspaper cartoon was single panel. His innovation was to tell a cartoon gag in a sequence, or strip, of panels, creating the first American comic strip to successfully pioneer that since-common format. The concept of a newspaper strip featuring recurring characters in multiple panels on a six-day-a-week schedule actually had been created by Clare Briggs with A. Piker Clerk four years earlier, but that short-lived effort did not inspire further comics in a comic-strip format. As comics historian Don Markstein explained,
Fisher's comic strip was very similar to A. Piker Clerk, which cartoonist Clare Briggs ... had done in the very same daily format for The Chicago American in 1903. But tho Fisher was born in Chicago, it's unknown whether or not he ever saw the Briggs strip, so let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say he had an idea. Despite the Briggs primacy, A. Mutt is considered the first daily strip because it's the one that sparked a trend in that direction, which continues to this day.[2]
A. Mutt, the comic strip that would be better known by its later title, Mutt and Jeff, debuted on November 15, 1907 on the sports pages of the San Francisco Chronicle. The featured character had previously appeared in sports cartoons by Fisher, but was unnamed. Fisher had approached his editor, John P. Young, about doing a regular strip as early as 1905, but was turned down. According to Fisher, Young told him, "It would take up too much room, and readers are used to reading down the page, and not horizontally."[3]
This strip focused on a single main character, until the other half of the duo appeared on March 27, 1908. It appeared only in the Chronicle, so Fisher did not have the extended lead time that syndicated strips require. Episodes were drawn the day before publication, and frequently referred to local events that were currently making headlines, or to specific horse races being run that day. A 1908 sequence about Mutt's trial featured a parade of thinly-disguised caricatures of specific San Francisco political figures, many of whom were being prosecuted for graft.
On June 7, 1908, the strip moved off the sports pages and into Hearst's San Francisco Examiner where it was syndicated by King Features and became a national hit, subsequently making Fisher the first celebrity of the comics industry.[2] Fisher had taken the precaution of copyrighting the strip in his own name, facilitating the move to King Features and making it impossible for the Chronicle to continue the strip using another artist.
A dispute between Fisher and King Features arose in 1913, and Fisher moved his strip on September 15, 1915, to Wheeler Syndicate (later Bell Syndicate), who gave Fisher 60% of the gross revenue, an enormous income in those times.[2] Hearst responded by launching a lawsuit which ultimately failed.[4] By 1916, Fisher was earning in excess of $150,000 a year. By the 1920s, merchandising and growing circulation had increased his income to an estimated $250,000.[5]
In 1918, Mutt and Jeff added a Sunday strip, and as success continued, Fisher became increasingly dependent on assistants to produce the work. Fisher hired Billy Liverpool and Ed Mack, artists Hearst had at one point groomed to take over the strip, who would do most of the artwork.[6][7] Other assistants on the strip included Ken Kling, George Herriman and Maurice Sendak (while still in high school).[8][9]
Fisher appeared to lose all interest in the strip during the 1930s, and after Mack died in 1932, the job of creating the strip fell to Al Smith.[10][11] The strip retained Fisher's signature until his death, however, and not until December 7, 1954, was the strip signed by Smith.[4]
Al Smith received the National Cartoonists Society Humor Comic Strip Award in 1968 for his work on the strip.[12] Smith continued to draw Mutt and Jeff until 1980, two years before it ceased publication.
In the introduction to Forever Nuts: The Early Years of Mutt & Jeff, Allan Holtz gave the following reason for the strip's longevity and demise:
The strip's waning circulation got a shot in the arm in the 1950s when President Eisenhower sang its praises, and then again in the 1970s when a nostalgia craze swept the nation. It took the 1980s, a decade focused on the here and now, and a final creative change on the strip when even Al Smith had had enough, to finally allow the strip the rest it had deserved for decades.[13]
During this final period it was drawn by George Breisacher.[14] Currently, Andrews McMeel Universal continues to syndicate Mutt and Jeff under the imprint Classic Mutt and Jeff (in both English and Spanish language versions) under the signature of Pierre S. de Beaumont (1915–2010), founder of the Brookstone catalog and retail chain. De Beaumont inherited the strip from his mother, Aedita de Beaumont,[15] who married Fisher in 1925 (the couple parted after four weeks, but never divorced).[16]
A Mutt and Jeff strip from 1913
Characters and story[edit]
Augustus Mutt is a tall, dimwitted racetrack character—a fanatic horse-race gambler who is motivated by greed. Mutt has a wife, known only as Mrs. Mutt (Mutt always referred to her as "M'love") and a son named Cicero. Mutt first encountered the half-pint Jeff, an inmate of an insane asylum who shares his passion for horseracing, in 1908. They appeared in more and more strips together until the strip abandoned the horse-race theme, and concentrated on Mutt's other outlandish, get-rich-quick schemes. Jeff usually served as a (sometimes unwilling) partner. Jeff was short, bald as a billiard ball, and wore mutton chop sideburns. He has no last name, stating his name is "just Jeff—first and last and always it's Jeff". However, at one point late in the strip's life, he is identified in the address of a cablegram as "Othello Jeff". He has a twin brother named Julius. They look so much alike that Jeff, who cannot afford to have a portrait painted, sits for Julius, who is too busy to pose. Rarely does Jeff change from his habitual outfit of top hat and suit with wing collar. Friends of Mutt and Jeff have included Gus Geevem, Joe Spivis, and the English Sir Sidney. Characteristic lines and catchphrases that appeared often during the run of the strip included "Nix, Mutt, nix!", "For the love of Mike!" and "Oowah!"
The original inspiration for the character of "Jeff" was Jacques "Jakie" Fehr, a tiny (4'8") irascible Swiss-born shopkeeper in the village of Occidental, California. One summer day in 1908, Fisher, a member of San Francisco's Bohemian Club, was riding the North Pacific Coast narrow-gauge railway passenger train northbound to the Bohemian Grove, the club's summer campsite. During a stop in Occidental, Fisher got off the train to stretch his legs and observed the diminutive walrus-moustached Fehr in heated altercation with the tall and lanky "candy butcher", who sold refreshments on the train and also distributed newspapers to shops in towns along the train route. The comic potential in this scene prompted Fisher to add the character of Jeff to his A. Mutt comic strip, with great success.
Cicero's Cat[edit]
Bud Fisher's Cicero's Cat (August 7, 1942)
The spin-off strip Cicero's Cat starred Desdemona, a cat that Smith originally introduced in 1933 as a pet for Mutt's son, Cicero. This pantomime strip was a "topper", a Sunday-only feature packaged with the Sunday strip.
Comic books and reprints[edit]
The Cupples & Leon Co. produced at least 18 reprint collections of Mutt and Jeff daily strips, in 10" x 10" softcover books from 1919 to 1933. They also published two larger hardcover editions, Mutt and Jeff BIG Book (1926) and Mutt and Jeff BIG Book No. 2 (1929).
Mutt and Jeff also appeared in comic books. They were featured on the front cover of Famous Funnies #1, the first modern format comic book, and reprints appeared in DC Comics' All American Comics. It has been suggested that some of the Mutt and Jeff material published by DC Comics were new stories drawn by Sheldon Mayer
In 1939, DC gave them their own comic book, published until 1958 for 103 issues, that consisted entirely of newspaper reprints. Dell Comics took over the feature after DC dropped it, but their tenure only lasted for one year and 12 issues. Many of the Dell issues featured new, conventional-length stories drawn by Smith.
Harvey Comics, which had several other comic strip reprint comics running at the time, picked up Mutt and Jeff from Dell, and this version of the comic ran to 1965 for a total of 33 issues, plus two short-lived spinoff titles: Mutt & Jeff Jokes and Mutt & Jeff New Jokes. These later versions also included Smith's Cicero's Cat.
In 2007, comics publisher NBM published a reprint volume, Forever Nuts: The Early Years of Mutt & Jeff.[13] ISBN 1-56163-502-2
Stage shows and sheet music[edit]
A scene from the 1912 stage show.
Advertisement (1918)
Mutt and Jeff: A Musical Comedy Song Book (1912) Songs include: "The Barn-Yard Rag"; "Sail on Silv'ry Moon"; "Mr. Ragtime Whippoorwill"; "Oh You Girl!"; "A Mother Old and Gray"; "Let Me Call You Sweetheart"; "Years Years Ago"; "If I Forget"; "Bohemia Rag"; "Undertaker Man"; "Tell Me That You Love Me"
The Face in the Flag I Love (from Mutt and Jeff in Panama, 1913)
At the Funny Page Ball (1918)
Mutt and Jeff on Their Honeymoon (aka Mutt and Jeff Divorced, 1920) Songs include: "My Dearie"; "My Dixie Rose"; "The Wild Irish Rose That God Gave Me"; "Why Can't My Dreams Come True"; "Just One Little Smile"; "Songs My Mother Sang to Me"; "When Someone Dreams of Someone"; "When I Am Dreaming of You"
Mutt and Jeff: And They Called It the Funny Sheet Blues (1923)
Mutt and Jeff Songster (Date unknown)
Program from Mutt and Jeff Divorced (1920)[edit]
Front of program for stage show.
Inside of program.
Back of program.
Motion pictures[edit]
Live-action[edit]
Main article: List of Mutt and Jeff live-action shorts
In early July 1911, during the silent era of motion pictures, at David Horsley's Nestor Comedies in Bayonne, New Jersey, Al Christie began turning out a weekly one-reel live-action Mutt and Jeff comedy short, which was based on the comic strip.
The Mutt and Jeff serial was extremely popular and after the Nestor Company established a studio in Hollywood, in late October 1911, Christie continued to oversee a weekly production of a one-reel episode.
In the fall of 1911, Nestor began using an alternate method of displaying the intertitles in the Mutt and Jeff comedies. Instead of a cut to the dialogue titles, the dialogue was displayed at the bottom of the image on a black background so the audience could read them as a subtitle, which was similar to the way they appeared in the cartoon strips. Horsley was very proud of the device and claimed to have entered a patent on it. He advertised the Mutt and Jeff movies as "talking pictures".[17]
The first actors to portray Mutt and Jeff in the comedy shorts were Sam D. Drane, a tall man noted for his resemblance to President Lincoln, who actually played Lincoln in his last movie, The Crisis (1916), as A. Mutt, and Gus Alexander, whose nickname was "Shorty", as Jeff. When Alexander was leaving the serial, Christie hired the small actor Bud Duncan. Duncan played Jeff in two installments before the serial ended in 1912.[18]
Animation[edit]
Main article: List of Mutt and Jeff theatrical cartoons
In 1916,[19] Fisher licensed the production of Mutt and Jeff for animation with pioneers Charles Bowers and Raoul Barré of the Barré Studio. The animated series lasted 11 years and more than 300 animated Mutt and Jeff shorts were released by the Fox Film Corporation, making it the longest continuing theatrical animated movie serial and second longest to Krazy Kat.
Mutt and Jeff in Dog Gone (1926)
In 1973, a feature film was released consisting of eleven redrawn colorized Mutt and Jeff silent films, with the short Slick Sleuths used as the frame, titled Mutt And Jeff Meet Bugoff, which added new dialogue and soundtrack songs. Radio & Television Film Packagers were the producers of the film, which received a very limited theatrical release, primarily being shown on the 16MM circuit.
In 2005, Inkwell Images released a DVD documentary entitled Mutt and Jeff: the Original Animated Odd Couple; included on the disc are several Mutt and Jeff animated cartoons.[20] Also, individual Mutt and Jeff cartoons have been mixed with other titles on low-cost video collections, such as the Cartoon Craze DVDs from Digiview Productions.
In popular culture[edit]
Mutt and Jeff, Texas, was a small community located at the intersection of State Highway 37 and Farm Road 14, near Big Sandy Creek, six miles from Winnsboro. The town was so named in the 1920s because of two area merchants, who reminded locals of the comic strip characters. The population decreased during the 1930s, and Mutt and Jeff, Texas, was abandoned by the early 1960s.[21]
The "good cop/bad cop" police interrogation tactic is also called "Mutt and Jeff".[22]
In rhyming slang, "mutton" is used as a shortening of "Mutt'n'Jeff", meaning "deaf".[22]
In Frank Henenlotter's Frankenhooker, when Jeffrey Franken is going through various body parts, he refers to two mismatched breasts as 'Mutt and Jeff'.
In the TV series Twin Peaks' pilot, Bookhouse Boy biker Joey Paulsen says to the fellow biker sitting next to him at The Roadhouse "Look, it's Mutt 'n Jeff' when Bobby Briggs and Mike Nelson enter the bar.
In Disney's Aladdin stage musical, Mutt and Jeff are referred to by name as examples of great friends.
Any pair of individuals of different sizes has come to be known as a "Mutt and Jeff".
In a Gasoline Alley sequence begun on October 19, 2015, Mutt telephones Walt Wallet with news regarding Jeff.
Paul Brickhill (in The Dam Busters) referred to two test pilots as Mutt and Jeff.
In The Simpsons episode "Helter Shelter", in which the Simpsons participate in a reality television game show in which they live in Victorian house and have access to items available only in 1895, Bart laments having access only to Mutt and Jeff comic books and is quoted as saying, "This has been the worst week of my life. I miss my toys and my video games. Mutt and Jeff comics are NOT funny! They're gay, I get it!".[23] Mutt and Jeff was not created until 1907.
Mutt and Jeff are mentioned in the song "Día de Enero" (English: "January Day") by Colombian singer Shakira in her sixth studio album Fijación Oral 1, better known in Spanish as Eneas and Benitín.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Overland Monthly. LXVII (1): lx. January 1916. Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ Jump up to: a b c "Bud Fisher at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on April 4, 2012.
Jump up ^ The Comics Journal #289, April 2008, p. 175.
^ Jump up to: a b Michel, Nathalie, BdZoom. "Conaissez-vous Mutt and Jeff?" (in French).
Jump up ^ https://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21568586-internet-has-unleashed-burst-cartooning-creativity-triumph-nerds
Jump up ^ Lambiek Comiclopedia. "Billy Liverpool".
Jump up ^ Lambiek Comiclopedia. "Ed Mack".
Jump up ^ Lambiek Comiclopedia. "George Herriman".
Jump up ^ Lambiek Comiclopedia. "Maurice Sendak".
Jump up ^ Lambiek Comiclopedia. "Bud Fisher".
Jump up ^ Lambiek Comiclopedia. "Al Smith".
Jump up ^ National Cartoonists Siciety. "Newspaper Comic Strips – Humor Strips".
^ Jump up to: a b Forever Nuts: The Early Years of Mutt & Jeff by Bud Fisher, edited by Jeffrey Lindenblatt; ISBN 1-56163-502-2
Jump up ^ Lambiek Comiclopedia. "George Breisacher".
Jump up ^ Fox, Margalit. "Pierre de Beaumont, Brookstone Founder, Dies at 95". The New York Times, March 18, 2011.
Jump up ^ "Private Lives", Life magazine, December 28, 1936, page 62
Jump up ^ Eileen Bowser. The Transformation of Cinema 1907–1915. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1990. p. 144. ISBN 0-684-18414-1.
Jump up ^ Anthony Balducci. Lloyd Hamilton: Poor Boy Comedian of Silent Cinema. McFarland. 2009. p. 19. ISBN 0-7864-4159-3.
Jump up ^ http://www.filmpreservation.org/userfiles/image/PDFs/MuttJeff_Hanna.pdf
Jump up ^ Mutt and Jeff: the Original Animated Odd Couple at the Inkwell Images home page
Jump up ^ Jenkins, Rachel. Texas State Historical Association: The Handbook of Texas Online.
^ Jump up to: a b The Phrase Finder Mutt and Jeff
Jump up ^ TV.com accessed 7/22/09 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 4, 2010. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
External links[edit]
A.Word.A.Day
The Classic Mutt and Jeff strips GoComics
A suicide-themed Mutt and Jeff strip from November 1911
The short film Slick Sleuths is available for free download at the Internet Archive (An animated short film)
Mutt and Jeff at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on April 4, 2012.
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"Wind the Bobbin Up" is an English language children's nursery rhyme and singing game.
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2 Origins
3 The game
4 Notes
Lyrics[edit]
Among modern lyrics is:
Wind the bobbin up,
Wind the bobbin up,
Pull, pull, clap, clap, clap.
Wind it back again,
Wind it back again,
Pull, pull, clap, clap, clap,
Point to the ceiling,
Point to the floor,
Point to the window,
Point to the door,
Clap your hands together, 1, 2, 3,
And place them gently upon your knee.[1]
Origins[edit]
Iona and Peter Opie traced this rhyme back to Netherlands in the 1890s. When they were collecting games in the 1960s and 1970s the version they encountered was:
Wind the bobbin up,
Wind the bobbin up,
Pull, pull,
Tug, tug, tug.[2]
The game[edit]
In the 1970s the game involved two players winding fists around each other. At "Pull, Pull" they pushed their fists away from each other and when "Tug, Tug" was reached they pulled their elbows back.[2] It has now become a much more sedate action game, often with small children carrying out the actions in the lyrics.[1]
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^ Jump up to: a b B. Melling, Creative Activities for the Early Years: Thematic Art and Music Activities (Brilliant Publications, 2005), p. 64.
^ Jump up to: a b I. Opie and P. Opie, The Singing Game (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 379-82.
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The Great Khali
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The Great Khali
The Great Khali in 2007
Birth name
Dalip Singh Rana[1]
Born
(1972-08-27) 27 August 1972 (age 45)[1]
Dhiraina, Himachal Pradesh, India[1]
Residence
Houston, Texas,
United States[2]
Spouse(s)
Harminder Kaur (m. 2002)[3]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
Dalip Singh[4]
Giant Singh[1]
The Great Khali[5]
Billed height
7 ft 1 in (2.16 m)[5]
Billed weight
347 lb (157 kg)[5]
Billed from
Mumbai, India[5]
Trained by
All Pro Wrestling[1]
Debut
7 October 2000[1][6]
Dalip Singh Rana (born 27 August 1972),[7] better known by the ring name The Great Khali,[1] is an Indian-born American semi-retired professional wrestler, promoter and actor best known for his time in WWE.[5]
Known for his great height, The Great Khali was described as the eighth tallest professional wrestler in history in 2014[8] and the fourth tallest wrestler in WWE history in 2017.[9] The Great Khali debuted in WWE alongside Daivari and had alliances with Ranjin Singh and Jinder Mahal, but spent most of his career as a singles wrestler and in 2007 he became WWE's World Heavyweight Champion.[5][10]
Before embarking on his professional wrestling career, he was an officer for the Punjab state police.[11] He has appeared in four Hollywood films, two Bollywood films and several television shows.[12]
Contents
[hide]
1 Early life
2 Professional wrestling career
2.1 All Pro Wrestling (2000–2001)
2.2 World Championship Wrestling (2001)
2.3 New Japan Pro-Wrestling (2001–2002)
2.4 Various promotions (2002–2006)
2.5 World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE
2.5.1 Deep South Wrestling (2006)
2.5.2 Early feuds (2006–2007)
2.5.3 World Heavyweight Champion (2007–2008)
2.5.4 Punjabi Playboy (2008–2011)
2.5.5 Various alliances and final feuds (2012–2014)
2.6 Continental Wrestling Entertainment (2015–present)
2.7 Return to WWE (2017)
3 Brian Ong incident
4 Television and film
5 Personal life
6 Filmography
6.1 Film
6.2 Television
7 In wrestling
8 Championships and accomplishments
9 References
10 External links
Early life
Rana was born to Jwala Ram and his wife Tandi Devi in a Hindu family of the Dhiraina village of Himachal Pradesh's Sirmour district.[13][14]
Being one of the seven siblings of a poor family, he had to do odd jobs to make ends meet and suffers from acromegaly, which among other effects causes gigantism and chin protrusion.[15] When Rana was serving as a security guard in Shimla, he caught the eye of a police officer from the neighboring State of Punjab that—having previously helped several employees of Punjab Police to become international sportspersons—got him induced in the Punjab Police in 1993 and (though Rana was reluctant to leave Himachal Pradesh, his brother was also offered a job in the Punjab Police) once he landed in Punjab's Jalandhar, Rana trained in the local gyms to become a wrestler and soon he got selected for specialized wrestling training in the United States.[16]
Professional wrestling career
All Pro Wrestling (2000–2001)
Under the ring name Giant Singh he first became a professional wrestler for All Pro Wrestling (APW) in the United States, making his first appearance in October 2000 when teaming with Tony Jones against the West Side Playaz.[1]
World Championship Wrestling (2001)
When Rana came to San Francisco, he signed a contract with the World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and spent eight months until the WCW was bought by the rival promotion, World Wrestling Federation (WWF).[17]
New Japan Pro-Wrestling (2001–2002)
As Giant Singh, he received an offer from New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) by Team 2000 leader, Masahiro Chono, along with another big man, Giant Silva.[1] They were the tallest tag team in professional wrestling history at an average height of 7 foot 2½ inches and a combined weight of 805 pounds, teaming up for the first time at the Tokyo Dome in October when labeled as Club 7 by Chono defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kenzo Suzuki, Wataru Inoue and Yutaka Yoshie in a handicap Match when Silva pinned Tanahashi and Inoue at the same time.[18] Singh suffered his first loss in a tag team match in January 2002 after Hiroyoshi Tenzan pinned him with a cradle.[19] Singh suffered another big tag defeat during March, being pinned by Manabu Nakanishi after a German suplex pin, though his most critical loss came in August at Tokyo Nippon Budokan, when after a falling out he was pinned by Silva in a singles match.[1]
Various promotions (2002–2006)
Starting in 2002, he also wrestled in the Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and the Japanese promotion All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) until 2006, when he signed with WWE.[20]
World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE
Deep South Wrestling (2006)
The Great Khali in 2006
On 2 January 2006, Rana became the first Indian professional wrestler to be signed to a contract by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).[21] He was assigned to their developmental federation, Deep South Wrestling,[1] where he wrestled under his real name.[4]
Early feuds (2006–2007)
With Daivari as his manager, the unnamed Singh debuted on WWE television as a villain on the 7 April episode of SmackDown!, attacking The Undertaker and leaving him defenceless during his match with Mark Henry, thus causing a no contest ruling.[22] The following week on SmackDown! he was introduced as The Great Khali and Daivari explained that he finally had a client who would destroy The Undertaker (after Muhammed Hassan and Mark Henry had previously failed).[23] Khali made his in-ring debut on the 21 April episode of SmackDown!, defeating Funaki.[24]
On the 12 May episode of SmackDown!, Khali was John Bradshaw Layfield's hand-picked opponent against World Champion Rey Mysterio (Khali had a height advantage of 21 inches and a weight advantage of 250 pounds) and defeated Mysterio in a squash match.[25] In his match against The Undertaker at Judgment Day on 21 May, Khali defeated The Undertaker with a kick to the head after receiving some illegal help from Daivari.[26][27] Khali continued on a rampage for several weeks, winning handicap matches,[28] beating wrestlers up in a display of power[29][30][31] and mocking The Undertaker's signature pin and victory pose.[31]
Khali then challenged The Undertaker to a Punjabi Prison match at The Great American Bash.[32] However, Khali was not medically cleared to compete in the match and was instead replaced by Big Show, who lost the match despite Khali's interference. After he was medically cleared, Khali was challenged by The Undertaker to a Last Man Standing match at SummerSlam on 20 August.[33] The match was moved to the SmackDown! just prior to SummerSlam and was won by The Undertaker, thus giving Khali his first definite loss in WWE.[34]
Khali was accompanied by his translator and manager Ranjin Singh
The Great Khali and Daivari were moved to the ECW brand officially when they made their ECW debuts on the 31 October episode of ECW on Sci Fi, when Daivari defeated "The Reject" Shannon Moore in a very quick match.[35] Afterwards, Moore was manhandled by Khali.[35] Daivari continued his ECW winning streak over the next several weeks with The Great Khali usually following up the contest with a chokebomb on Daivari's opponent. At December to Dismember on 3 December, Daivari got a victory over Tommy Dreamer following a roll-up.[36] Dreamer then chased Daivari backstage, but Khali appeared and caught Dreamer, planting him on the steel ramp with a chokebomb.
On the 8 January 2007 episode of Raw, Jonathan Coachman announced that Khali had signed with Raw (without his manager Daivari) and would wrestle John Cena in the main event, which Khali won by disqualification after Cena took a steel chair held by Armando Estrada and hit Khali with it, though after the match he performed a chokeslam on Cena and left the ringside area, leaving Cena prone to an attack by Umaga.[37]
On the 19 February episode of Raw, Khali demanded better competition after easily defeating The Highlanders.[38] Four days later on SmackDown!, Khali interfered in a Falls Count Anywhere Money in the Bank qualifying match between Kane and King Booker by costing Kane the match,[39] leading to a feud which culminated in a match at WrestleMania 23 which Khali won In his first appearance at WrestleMania after slamming Kane with the Khali Bomb and choking him with a hook and chain at the end of the match.[40]
In 2007, Khali feuded with John Cena over the WWE Championship, a title which he never won
On the 30 April episode of Raw, Khali attacked Edge, Randy Orton and Shawn Michaels (all three top contenders to the WWE Championship at the time) backstage.[41] Khali then attacked WWE Champion John Cena as well, sending a message that he wanted Cena's title.[41] The next week on Raw, Khali defeated Michaels in a numeber one contender's match for the WWE Championship at Judgment Day.[42][43] At the event on 20 May, Khali lost via submission for the first time when tapping out to Cena's STFU, though Khali's foot was under the rope and went unnoticed by the referee.[44] The next night on Raw, Khali expressed his outrage over the outcome via his newly established translator and manager, Ranjin Singh.[45] At One Night Stand on 3 Jue, Khali lost to Cena after he was hit with an FU off a crane bed, thus marking the first time Khali had been pinned in a singles match.[46]
World Heavyweight Champion (2007–2008)
On the 11 June episode of Raw, as part of the 2007 WWE draft, Khali was drafted from Raw to SmackDown as SmackDown's first draft pick.[47] In July, Khali began a feud with Batista and the two were scheduled for a match at The Great American Bash.[48] However, because Edge vacated the World Heavyweight Championship due to a legitimate injury, a twenty-man battle royal was held for the title on the 20 July edition of SmackDown! which Khali won after eliminating both Kane and Batista in one move, thus winning his first World Heavyweight Championship.[49] Khali dominated and defeated both Batista and Kane in a triple threat match at The Great American Bash on 22 July.[50] Khali then debuted a new finisher called the Khali Vise Grip (a two-handed clawhold) which he used to wear down Batista, Kane and Ric Flair.
At SummerSlam on 26 August, Khali lost by disqualification when he used a steel chair, but retained the title.[51] Khali then began a feud with Rey Mysterio after Mysterio won a Championship Competition to become the number one contender, leading Khali to apply his Visa Grip on Mysterio on the 7 September episode of SmackDown! until Batista came to the rescue, with SmackDown General Manager Theodore Long informing Khali that he would have to defend the World Heavyweight Championship also against Batista in a triple threat match at Unforgiven on 16 September, where Khali's 61-days reign ended after receiving a spinebuster.[52] Khali challenged Batista to a rematch in a Punjabi Prison match at No Mercy on 7 October in which Khali lost by failing to escape the Punjabi cage before Batista.[53]
In late 2007 and early 2008, Khali was put in a program with Finlay usually trying to assault Hornswoggle, but with Finlay stopping him. Khali participated in an Elimination Chamber match at No Way Out on 17 February, which was won by The Undertaker. At WrestleMania XXIV on 30 March, Khali participated in a twenty-four man battle royal to determine a challenger for ECW Champion Chavo Guerrero later that evening, but the match was won by Kane. Khali then had a short feud with Big Show, culminating in a match at Backlash on 27 April, which Big Show won.[54]
In July, Khali feuded with Triple H over the WWE Championship and on the 25 July episode of SmackDown! he won a battle royal also involving Big Show, Jeff Hardy, Montel Vontavious Porter, Mr. Kennedy and Umaga to earn the right to face Triple H at SummerSlam.[55] At the event on 17 August, Khali lost to Triple H after receiving a Pedigree. Khali was given another opportunity to win the WWE Championship when he faced Jeff Hardy to gain entry into the championship scramble at Unforgiven on 7 September, but Triple H interfered in the qualification match and aided Hardy with a chair shot to Khali, thus helping Hardy win and eliminating Khali from title contention.
Punjabi Playboy (2008–2011)
On 3 October, daredevil Johnny Knoxville aired an interview with Khali and his translator on his website, jackassworld.com, but when Knoxville asked about Khali's "taliwacker" he became upset and threatened to tip the interview table onto Knoxville.[56] Khali later invited Knoxville to attend the 13 October episode of Raw, where Knoxville was attacked by Khali, WWE Diva Beth Phoenix and Hornswoggle. Khali then took on a more fun persona and became a fan favorite when he and Ranjin Singh hosted the weekly Khali Kiss Cam, where Singh would summon ostensibly random women from the audience to kiss Khali. In May 2009, The Great Khali feuded with Dolph Ziggler, winning by disqualification after Ziggler attacked him with a steel chair.[57] As a result, Khali began coming out to the ring during and after Ziggler's matches, in attempt to gain revenge and to stop Ziggler from cheating.[58][59] Over the next few weeks, Khali lost to Ziggler by countout and disqualification after Ziggler made it look like Khali hit him with a steel chair.[60][61] At The Bash onn 28 June, Khali lost to Ziggler by pinfall after Kane returned and attacked Khali.[62] It was later revealed that Ranjin Singh was Khali's brother, while the feud with Kane resulted in matches at SummerSlam on 23 August and Breaking Point on 13 September, both of which Khali lost.[63][64]
Khali required knee surgery and Kane assaulted him with the ring steps during a match so Khali could have time off.[65] Whilst injured, Khali made a surprise appearance alongside Ranjin Singh, Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon on the 2 November episode of Raw as a judge for the Raw's Got Talent segment, in which he hit Chavo Guerrero with a chop.[66][67] Khali made his official return on the 14 December episode of Raw, teaming with Christian and Kane to defeat Ezekiel Jackson, Vladimir Kozlov and William Regal.
On the 2 April episode of SmackDown it was announced that Khali would take time off to spend time with his family and regroup his thoughts back in India, but he made an appearance as Khaluber (Khali dressed as MacGruber) on the 19 April Raw by teaming up with special guest host Will Forte (as MacGruber) in a handicap match against Vladimir Kozlov which they won by intentional countout.[68][69] As part of the 2010 WWE supplemental draft, Khali and Ranjin Singh were both drafted back to the Raw brand.[70] After returning from his hiatus the previous month, Khali was announced by John Cena to be a part of his team along with Bret Hart, Chris Jericho, Edge, John Morrison and R-Truth to face The Nexus at SummerSlam on 15 August, but on the 9 August episode of Raw he was assaulted and injured by The Nexus, thus removing him from the match. Following the attack, Khali took another hiatus to compete in Big Boss, in which he was the runner up on.
Khali made his return at the 2011 Royal Rumble, but was eliminated shortly by Mason Ryan. On the 14 March episode of Raw, after Khali defeated The Miz by disqualification, Miz assaulted Khali with a steel chair, injuring him. Khali won an interbrand dark match battle royal at WrestleMania XXVII on 3 April.[71] On 26 April, Khali was drafted back to SmackDown as part of the 2011 supplemental draft. Khali returned on the 29 April episode of SmackDown, talking backstage with Jinder Mahal, who made his WWE debut that night. On the 2 May episode of Raw, Khali dressed up as the Tooth Fairy at The Rock's birthday party. On the 6 May episode of SmackDown, Mahal—unimpressed by how Khali and Ranjin Singh have been partaking in childish activities instead of winning matches—confronted Singh about his mismanagement of Khali. Mahal then interrupted a Khali Kiss Cam segment the following week on SmackDown, slapping Khali twice. On the 20 May episode of SmackDown, Mahal interrupted Khali's match against Jey Uso, which led to Khali leaving the ring to confront Mahal, who then slapped Khali again, which made Khali re-enter the ring, defeat Jey Uso and then assault Jimmy Uso after the match.
On the 27 May episode of SmackDown, after being defeated by Kane, Mahal came out and shoved Ranjin Singh and then Khali used his Vise Grip on Singh, thus forming an alliance with Mahal and acting as Mahal's bodyguard, assaulting Mahal's opponent's after his matches. On the 1 July edition of SmackDown, Ranjin Singh revealed that Mahal was their brother-in-law and that if Khali did not obey Mahal, then he would divorce Khali's sister and put his family back into poverty. On the 9 September episode of SmackDown, Khali and Mahal went against WWE Tag Team Champions Air Boom (Evan Bourne and Kofi Kingston) in a losing effort after Khali pushed Mahal, allowing Kingston to hit his finishing move onto Mahal and after the match he walked away from Mahal, thus endinng their alliance.[72] On the 23 September episode of SmackDown, Khali defeated Mahal. On the 30 September episode of SmackDown, Khali was defeated by World Heavyweight Champion Mark Henry, who after the match "fractured" Khali's fibula with a steel chair.
Various alliances and final feuds (2012–2014)
Khali at a WWE live event in 2013
On 29 January 2012, Khali returned to WWE at the Royal Rumble as the number 15 entrant in the Royal Rumble match, eliminating Ezekiel Jackson and Jinder Mahal before being eliminated by Cody Rhodes and Dolph Ziggler.[73] Khali returned on the 3 February episode of SmackDown, saving Justin Gabriel from Rhodes, Hunico and Hunico's bodyguard Camacho, then being announced as the replacement to Mark Henry in the SmackDown Elimination Chamber match for the World Heavyweight Championship at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view event.[74] At Elimination Chamber on 19 February, Khali failed to capture the World Heavyweight Championship after being eliminated first by Big Show.[75] On the 23 March episode of SmackDown, Khali was added to Theodore Long's WrestleMania XXVIII team, but they were defeated by John Laurinaitis' team on April 1.[76] In July it was announced that Khali was undergoing surgery for a benign tumor found in his pituitary gland due to acromegaly.[77][78] Khali returned at the SmackDown tapings on 16 October in a match taped for Saturday Morning Slam.[79]
On the 26 December episode of Main Event, Khali won a 20-man battle royal to become the number one contender to the United States Championship.[80] Khali received his title shot on the 2 January 2013 episode of Main Event, but was defeated by defending champion Antonio Cesaro.[81] In late 2013, Khali began teaming with Santino Marella and resumed being managed by Hornswoggle after they defeated Heath Slater and Jinder Mahal on the 27 September episode of SmackDown, but at Battleground on 6 October they were defeated by Cesaro and Jack Swagger. On 27 January 2013, Khali participated in the Royal Rumble match, but was eliminated by The Shield.
At WrestleMania XXX on 6 April, Khali competed in the André the Giant Memorial battle royal, but failed to win. Khali participated in the Intercontinental Championship battle royal at Battleground on 20 July, but the match was won by The Miz. On the 31 October episode of SmackDown, Khali was defeated by Rusev in what would be his final match in WWE until 2017, as on 13 November his contract expired and he left WWE.[82]
Continental Wrestling Entertainment (2015–present)
In February 2015, Khali opened his own wrestling school in Punjab, the Continental Wrestling Entertainment, which held its first event on 12 December 2015.[83]
Return to WWE (2017)
On 23 July 2017, Khali returned to WWE at Battleground as a villain to assist WWE Champion Jinder Mahal in a Punjabi Prison match for the WWE Championship by preventing Randy Orton from escaping the structure, allowing Mahal to escape and retain the title.[84][85][86] Khali's profile was briefly listed on WWE's active roster on WWE.com, but was shortly removed and indicated Khali's appearance was a one-time occurrence.[5]
Brian Ong incident
Khali during a Peace Rally in Mumbai on 20 November 2011
On 28 May 2001, Brian Ong died after receiving a flapjack from Singh.[1] Ong had suffered a previous concussion during the session, but the trainers gave him a lower evaluation for not avoiding injuries and told him to continue training. In addition, it was proven that Ong did not receive protective gear or supervision by All Pro Wrestling (APW) staff and this second concussion ultimately proved fatal for him. As Singh inadvertently caused his death, Ong's family brought a lawsuit against APW.[1] APW was found liable for recklessness after less than a day of deliberations, awarding the Ong family for damages of over $1.3 million.[1]
Television and film
From October 2010 until the final in January 2011, Khali appeared on the television reality show Bigg Boss, on which he finished as first runner-up. The show made special arrangements only for Khali, including a custom-made bed to fit him.[87] In March 2011, Khali had a brief cameo in episode 18 of NBC's Outsourced, and appeared on the Disney Channel TV program Pair of Kings as Atog, a rock-smashing giant, in the episode "Fight School".[88]
Personal life
Rana is a Hindu[89] and has been described as "extremely religious".[2][90] He meditates every day and "abhors" alcohol and tobacco.[91] He was a disciple of Indian spiritual guru Ashutosh Maharaj.[92]
Rana suggested the ring name The Great Khali after the Hindu goddess Kali, who is associated with eternal energy.[21]
Rana's training schedule consists of two hours of weight training, morning and evening, every day, but his diet is unclear, as in some interviews it was claimed he maintains his size on a vegetarian diet[93] and in other interviews it was claimed he consumes vast quantities of chicken.[94] However, he has clarified that he loves vegetarian food, but also consumes meat.[95]
On 26 July 2012 it was reported that Rana underwent a brain surgery due to a tumor on his pituitary gland.[96]
Rana became a naturalized U.S. citizen on 20 February 2014.[97]
Filmography
Film
Year
Title
Role
2005 The Longest Yard Turley
2008 Get Smart Dalip
2010 MacGruber Tug Phelps
2010 Kushti Ramakrishna
2010 Ramaa: The Saviour Vali
2012 HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami Bolo
Television
Year
Title
Role
Notes
2010 Bigg Boss Himself Season 4 runner-up
2011 Outsourced Fantasy Rajiv Season 1, episode 18
2012 Pair of Kings Atog the Giant Episode: "Fight School"
In wrestling
Finishing moves
Chokeslam[98] – 2000–2006
Punjabi Plunge/Khali Bomb[99] (Two-handed chokeslam) – 2006–2014
Giant Bomb[100] (Powerbomb) – 2000–2006
Khali Chop[101] (Brain chop)[102]
Khali Vise Grip[103][104] (Two-handed clawhold) – 2007–2011
Signature moves
Big boot, sometimes to an oncoming opponent[105]
Clothesline[42]
Fallaway slam[98]
Military press drop[4]
Nerve hold[42]
Scoop slam[105]
Short-arm clothesline[105]
Slap to a cornered opponent's chest, sometimes onto a charging or diving opponent[105]
Vertical suplex[98]
Managers
Daivari[citation needed]
Hornswoggle[citation needed]
Masahiro Chono[citation needed]
Natalya[citation needed]
Ranjin Singh[106]
Nicknames
"The Punjabi Monster"[citation needed]
"The Punjabi Nightmare"[citation needed]
"The Punjabi Playboy"[citation needed]
"The Punjabi Titan"[107]
Entrance themes
"Da.ngr" by Jim Johnston (2006–2008; 2011)[108][not in citation given]
"Land of Five Rivers" by Panjabi MC[109] (2008–2011; 2012–2014)[110]
"Main Yash Hun" by Jim Johnston (2011; used while accompanying Jinder Mahal)[111]
"Sher (Lion)" by Jim Johnston (23 July 2017; used while accompanying Jinder Mahal)[112]
Championships and accomplishments
The Great Khali as the World Heavyweight Champion
Continental Wrestling Entertainment
CWE Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[113][114]
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Teisen Hall Six-Man Tournament (2002) – with Masahiro Chono and Giant Silva[115]
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
Ranked 83 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2008[116]
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Most Overrated (2007)[117]
Worst Gimmick (2008)[117]
World Wrestling Entertainment
World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[10]
Slammy Award for "Damn!" Moment of the Year (2008) Khali Kiss Cam[118]
References
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "The Great Khali". CANOE. Retrieved 2 April 2008.
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