{"id":6803,"date":"2008-05-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/05\/08\/giant-wrestler-finds-fame-in-india\/"},"modified":"2008-05-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T12:00:00","slug":"giant-wrestler-finds-fame-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/05\/08\/giant-wrestler-finds-fame-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Wrestler Finds Fame in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/7384920.stm\">news.bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">NEW DELHI, INDIA, May 8, 2008: A giant former laborer from India who has become an international wrestling sensation is now a star in his homeland too. The Atlanta-based Dalip Singh Rana, who is from Himachal Pradesh, stands over 7ft tall and weighs nearly 200kg. Nicknamed the &#8220;Great Khali&#8221;, Rana is a top draw at the hugely popular World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). With some Hollywood work under his belt, he is now looking at offers from Bollywood.<\/p>\n<p>He is the first Indian to be signed up by WWE, and enjoys top billing in the famous American showbiz circus alongside fighters such as Hulk Hogan and The Rock.  &#8220;Americans could not imagine someone from India in WWE. They are now actually having a lot of fun,&#8221; he says. He briefly wrested the world champion&#8217;s mantle in 2007 with a series of superlative performances at WWE.<\/p>\n<p>Rana says he is a vegetarian and abhors alcohol and tobacco. He says he lives a &#8220;simple life&#8221; with his homemaker wife Harminder Kaur . &#8220;I have no fancy villa or cars. I live in a simple home and do not have the money to order a customized car that would fit my size,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>news.bbc.co.uk NEW DELHI, INDIA, May 8, 2008: A giant former laborer from India who has become an international wrestling sensation,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}