MVP speaks on working with the Great Khali.
MVP and Great Khali were some of the top prospects of the latter half of WWE's Ruthless Aggression era. As such, they clashed on a number of occasions over the years. While MVP didn't enjoy being between the ropes, he says Great Khali was a lot of fun behind the scenes.
MVP reflected on working with Great Khali on the HUGE POP! podcast.
"He was absolutely no fun to work with, at all. But in the locker room, on the road and otherwise, he was hysterical. A lot of the times, he didn’t mean to be. Other times, he would play the, ‘I don’t really understand’ whenever it was convenient for him. Other times, he would hit you with a joke that you go, ‘Hell no. For him to make that kind of a joke, he speaks English well.’ I was with him in developmental. I had Khali duty for a while where everybody was assigned to dive him around for a week. At one point, we were driving around this parking lot in Florida on a Sunday in my Expedition. I’m teaching him how to drive. We’re driving through the parking lot listening to Ludacris, ‘Move bitch, get out the way.’ He’s bopping his head, he loves the song. I have this great story of teaching Khali how to drive. ‘Eventually, you’re gonna have to learn how to do this, dude. Everyone is not going to keep driving you around.’ The flip side of that is, when he gave you that chop to the head, there was absolutely no work to that chop. That was that big thick bone right there to your skull. I never enjoyed working with Khali. Joking around, giving him a hard time, and trading insults, that was awesome."
Today, MVP is still working alongside Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin, two other staples of the WWE Ruthless Aggression era, in AEW.
Great Khali is now a WWE Hall of Famer. He was inducted in 2021.
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