One Night Stand (2008) was the fourth annual One Night Stand professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It took place on June 1, 2008 at the San Diego Sports Arena in San Diego, California and featured talent from the Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brands. The show will be telecast in India on Sunday on Ten Sports. The official theme song was “Hell Yeah” by Rev Theory. The event featured two taglines: “Extreme Rules” and “The One Night a Year When the WWE Goes Extreme.”

The main match on the SmackDown brand was a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match for the World Heavyweight Championship between Edge and The Undertaker, per the pre-match stipulation, Undertaker would be forced to leave the WWE if he lost the match. The predominant match on the Raw brand was a Last Man Standing match for the WWE Championship between Triple H and Randy Orton. The primary match on the ECW brand was a Singapore Cane match involving The Big Show, CM Punk, John Morrison, Chavo Guerrero, and Tommy Dreamer. Featured matches on the undercard included Shawn Michaels versus Batista in a Stretcher match, John Cena versus John “Bradshaw” Layfield in a First Blood match. Jeff hardy Vs Umaga in a falls count anywhere match and Beth Phoenix Vs Melina in an I quit match.

“WWE: One Night Stand” will be telecasted on the 15th of June at 11.00 a.m on Ten Sports and is of 3 hours duration.

Sonepat wrestler Sandeep Singh grew up dreaming of taking part in the Olympics. It’s all falling in place for him now — with a slight ‘change’ in script. The 25-year-old has become the first sportsperson of Indian origin to make it to the Australian Olympic squad.

“It’s great to compete in the Olympics and I am felling honoured to represent Australia,” an elated Sandeep told Hindustan Times from Melbourne. The 84-kg category wrestler had migrated to Australia in 2004 to pursue his passion and earn a good living. “For the last three years, I have been winning gold in the Australian National Championship and last year I represented the country in the World meet. I won the quota place in the Oceania qualifiers,” he said.

Sandeep took to driving a taxi to earn a living and used the spare time for practice. “My day starts at 5:00 a.m. and after a two-hour practice in the United Wrestling Club, I drive a taxi. In the evening, I again spare time for the sport. But for the last one month, I have been concentrating on wrestling,” said Sandeep, who hails from Dhanana village in Sonepat. Sandeep, who was a constable in Punjab Police before shifting base, represented India in the World Children Sports Festival in Russia where he won gold and also took part in the Asian Cadet Championship in 1999 in Iran.

Expressing happiness over Sandeep’s inclusion in the Australian team, his former coach P R Sondhi, who is currently the chief coach of the Indian team, said, “Sandeep came to me in Phagwara in early 1990s. I am happy he will be representing Australia in the Olympics.” Sandeep first went to Australia in 1998 and finally migrated in 2004. “We both went to Australia in 1998 and 2002 and competed in the professional circuit there. But as Sandeep was not able to make a decent living in India he decided to shift base for good. I am happy that he is participating in the Beijing Games,” said Chand Nath, the wrestler’s former colleague.

World Wide Entertainment (WWE) champion wrestler Great Khali has beaten many a champion - but that has not deterred an 18-year-old here who Thursday challenged him to a fight with a Rs.500,000 bet. Jagmeet Singh, a first-year student of the DAV College here, said if Khali was indeed a great wrestler, he should accept the challenge and fight against him in Greco-Roman or free-style wrestling. ‘If he wins, I will give him Rs.500,000 as reward,’ Jagmeet said. The 6-foot 10-inch tall wrestler from a village in Punjab said he was not afraid of the Khali, who measures 7 feet 3 inches tall. If he is such a strong wrestler, he should qualify for the Beijing Olympics and get a gold medal for India,’ Jagmeet said.

Earlier, famous wrestler Palwinder Singh Cheema had also challenged Khali, whose original name is Dalip Singh Rana and who is an on-leave assistant sub-inspector of the Punjab police. Khali, based in the US in recent years, is visiting India and is India on a holiday and to give his joining report to the Punjab police at Jalandhar where he is posted. He has been on medical leave for nearly three years from the police force. He entered the WWE arena in 2005 and became a big name in that circuit. He even defeated The Undertaker, a much feared wrestler, in a WWE fight. Though Khali, who hails from a village in neighbouring Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmour district, was unknown when he left India for the US, he has come back to the country amidst great fanfare. Several celebrities and hundreds of fans have been trying to meet him since his arrival last week.

You can Catch The great khali In action every Tuesday on the SmackDown brand of the wwe. Matches are taped with a three week delay to India and normally air at 17.00 IST with a repeat at 22.30.

The Great Khali, standing 7 feet 3 inches (220 centimeters) and weighing 420 pounds (190 kilograms), has earned prizes, movie roles and piles of money for his prowess on the wrestling mat.

But officials said Thursday that the Indian-born World Wrestling Entertainment star had earned a new reward for his body slams and headlocks — a promotion in Punjab’s police force.

The entertainer, whose real name is Dilip Singh Rana, kept his day job as a police officer in the northern state of Punjab when he moved to the United States to wrestle.Police officials granted him extended sick leave in 2006 and were happy he used that time to become a star.

“He has brought the force international fame and has made us all very proud with his many achievements as a wrestler,” said senior police official Rajan Gupta.”It was the Punjab Police that first nurtured and promoted The Great Khali as a bodybuilder and wrestler,” Gupta said.

Still with the WWE, Rana is expected to return for a stint of police work next week. It’s unclear how long he’ll be with the force.Rana, previously an assistant sub inspector, is now a sub inspector. It wasn’t known if the promotion would raise Rana’s salary from its current 15,000 rupees (US$375; €243) a month.

In addition to wrestling, Rana also acts, playing alongside Adam’s Sandler in “The Longest Yard” in 2005. He has said he would like to continue wrestling and pursue a career in Bollywood. Rana, who made his wrestling debut in April 2006, took his moniker after Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction who wears a necklace of human heads. His biography on the WWE Web site says: “This enormous monster has walked the jungles of India unafraid of pythons and wrestled White Bengal tigers.”

Sharukh to rope in Khali to support the Kolkata Knight Riders!

Bollywood ActorShahrukh Khan seems to have turned desperate. He was on pins and needles when the Indian Premier League (IPL) started a few of weeks ago with his team Kolkata Knight Riders winning two consecutive matches. However, King Khan seems to have sensed the danger following four consecutive defeats later. Now, the news is doing the rounds that he is roping in the one-time WWE Champion the Great Khali to support his team.

It is said that King Khan is doing all he could to lift his team to a safe position. And so, he is said to have offered Rs.3 crore to the Great Khali to cheer for his team. Will the Punjabi giant lift King Khan’s team from the stands? Leave a comment and let us know what you think.

Catch the kolkata Knight riders Vs Deccan Chargers live on may 11th May at 20.00 IST on Sony Max.

There have always been speculations by the masses regarding the WWE matches being not real and stage managed. However, this Wednesday India’s first-ever World Wrestling Entertainment champion, Daleep Singh Rana, popularly known as Khali claims otherwise. The Great Khali standing 7.3 feet, rubbished the notion that performance of the wrestlers were manipulated by media during broadcast. He further went on to say that everything seen on the screen is very much real and sometimes wrestlers receive serious injuries, and even die in the ring.

Khali is very overwhelmed to see his popularity in India where cricket and Bollywood actors draw much of the fanfare. He recalled meeting Sachin Tendulkar in Mumbai where he invited Khali for an Indian Premier League match.

Khali believes the country has great prospect in the wrestling at the highest level and offered his help the aspirants. He is very excited about the WWE showcase that is happening in Mumbai on 10th May, 2008 at the Bhavan’s College Ground, Andheri from 7 PM to 9 PM.

Come May 11 and there is going to be the clash of the titans. The WWE Special: Backlash, is defiantly going to be worth a watch. The top stars form Raw, SmackDown! And ECW Championship brands are going to keep you at the edge of your seat. It is going to consist of some amazing pair ups:

1. A Fatal Four-Way Elimination match for the WWE Championship between:
Randy Orton, Triple H, John Cena, and John Bradshaw Layfield (JBL).
2. World Heavyweight Championship - The Undertaker vs. Edge
3. ECW Championship - Kane versus Chavo Guerrero
4. Batista versus Shawn Michaels
5. Big Show versus The Great Khali.

The WWE Special: Backlash is going to be aired on 11th May, 2008 at 7:15 PM IST on Ten Sports

Featured News: The Great Khali coming to India

The people of India will get the golden chance to see the Giant live. The Great Khali is coming to Delhi on 7th May, 2008 at the NSIC Exhibiton Grounds from 7 PM and 9 PM and also in Mumbai on 10th May, 2008 at the Bhavan’s College Ground, Andheri from 7 PM to 9 PM. Miss this and you’ll never know what you missed