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00:00Hey everyone, it's Weeds, I hope you're all doing well.
00:02If I say Great Kelly, perhaps, like me, that name brings back memories of that time.
00:06Catch Attack on NT1.
00:07We saw this giant, 2.16m tall, arrive in the arena with a slow, confident and imposing gait.
00:12And I see myself again as a child behind my television, terrified by this giant who was attacking my heroes.
00:16The thing I didn't understand at the time was just how talented he was in the ring,
00:20His talent on the microphone, or simply his charisma in general, was clearly inferior to the rest of the wrestlers.
00:25In fact, Kali was accompanied by a manager, sharing the ring with legends taking moves from her
00:30place,
00:31And all of this was enhanced by the crucial role of the commentators; well, I didn't realize the
00:35difference.
00:35It's crazy because today it's obvious that if he was able to have a career in the most
00:38the world's largest wrestling promotion
00:40This is primarily due to his physique and his origins.
00:43CEO Vince McMahon has always shown an affinity for extraordinary people.
00:46as of course with the legendary André the Giant or even a Hulk Hogan.
00:50Back then, wrestlers were often recruited primarily for their appearance.
00:53Big Show, Mark Henry, Batista or even Hand Swaggle, they are above all physical specimens.
00:58In 2006, Vince was trying to find his next André the Giant,
01:01his next cash cow, which would draw crowds like André,
01:04which in its time allowed for the sale of tickets in huge quantities.
01:07People paid to see this specimen, this monster, this anomaly,
01:11to come into a ring and test oneself against other fighters.
01:13It's harsh but it's the reality, the WWF capitalized on the bizarre.
01:17A first successor would fail with the giant Gonzales,
01:19who, although enormous, sorely lacked charisma and, above all, talent in the ring.
01:23The WWE staff, who are keeping a little bit of an eye on what's happening on the independent circuit
01:27To find talent, you'll come across a truly unusual profile.
01:31When Vince is shown this, dollars will start flashing in his eyes.
01:34Not only did this individual have an extraordinary physique,
01:36But what's more, he was Indian, double jackpot.
01:39It was incredibly easy to present him to the American public as a villain.
01:43simply because he was a foreigner, clearly, that's America.
01:46while also being able to create, on top of that, an icon in India,
01:49a stratospheric potential market of over one billion people.
01:52Put a bet on this gentleman.
01:54This could potentially unlock access to an audience in the most populated country in the world.
01:58The opportunity was too good to pass up; we had to recruit him.
02:00What's crazy is that the strategy will work.
02:02because we don't necessarily realize it on our end,
02:04But in India, Greg Kali is now a true legend.
02:07One of the country's living icons,
02:09And I may be telling you something you don't already know,
02:10But Kali has more followers on Instagram than Roman Reigns.
02:13That puts its popularity into perspective a bit.
02:15But behind this pretty picture,
02:16There is a much less happy story surrounding the wrestler.
02:19A truly tragic story.
02:20where he became involved in the death of a wrestler.
02:23A terrible accident occurred in a boxing ring.
02:25which cost someone their life,
02:26and which, surprisingly, seemed to have been largely forgotten.
02:29or simply unknown to the general public, despite its seriousness.
02:31Today, I would like us to look at the career of Dalip Singh Rana,
02:35UKA, the Greg Kali,
02:36and of everything that led to that unfortunate day,
02:38where the reaper struck without warning.
02:45To understand how we got to this point,
02:47We need to go back well before wrestling.
02:49well before the United States,
02:51First and foremost.
02:51The year is 1972.
02:53in the tiny village of Direna,
02:54in the Sir Mahour district,
02:56in Imachal Pradesh, India.
02:57If you search on Google Maps,
02:59It's a tiny place lost in the mountains of Limachal Pradesh.
03:02in northern India.
03:03We're talking about a remote place,
03:05where people live primarily from agriculture,
03:07and where daily life boils down to living with what the Earth is willing to give you.
03:11This is where Dalip Singh Rana will be born.
03:13August 27, 1972,
03:14one of Joel Arram's 7 children,
03:16and Tantit Devi,
03:17a family living in poverty.
03:19Seven mouths to feed in a village where nobody really has any money.
03:22This gives you an idea of the kind of daily life that can entail.
03:24The father works the land.
03:26The mother too.
03:26Everyone is pitching in,
03:28and as soon as he is old enough,
03:29Dalip will go to work with them to help them.
03:31But very quickly, there's a problem.
03:33Like any boy, Dalip grew up.
03:34Quickly.
03:35Much too fast and much too hard.
03:36Normally, when a child has a growth spurt,
03:39It explodes suddenly.
03:40Then it stabilizes.
03:41For him, it never stops.
03:42He grew, again and again.
03:44His hands become disproportionately large.
03:46His jaw widened,
03:47and his voice becomes abnormally deep for a child his age.
03:50What his family doesn't know yet,
03:51He has acromegaly.
03:53a disease caused by a tumor
03:55which leads to the overproduction of growth hormones by the brain.
03:58If that name rings a bell,
03:59This is because André the Giant had the same disease.
04:02And unfortunately, that's also what would kill him at only 46 years old in 1993.
04:06His heart eventually gave out from having to constantly feed such an enormous body.
04:10Acromegaly isn't just about being tall,
04:12There are plenty of other problems that go along with it.
04:14If you don't treat the tumor that's causing all this,
04:16Your body can gradually deteriorate,
04:18heart problems, diabetes, vision loss,
04:20and little Dalip, in his village deep in India in the 1970s,
04:23obviously does not have the means to access treatment.
04:26As a result, the people around him can only watch him grow up.
04:29In parallel, he will go to school,
04:30And you know how children are with each other,
04:32When one of them is different, it's unforgivable.
04:34Dalip will be mocked, and even worse.
04:36His teacher will participate in this harassment.
04:39This will push Dalip to change classes.
04:40but in 1979,
04:42Another problem will be added on top of all the others,
04:44A monsoon will destroy everything.
04:46Family cultures,
04:47Their only source of income will be completely devastated.
04:50No more harvests, no more money, nothing left.
04:52The family can no longer even afford the school fees.
04:54and Dalip will simply have to leave school.
04:57In the following years,
04:58He will start working as a stonemason.
05:00as a worker,
05:01Basically, doing anything that can earn a few rupees
05:03to help his family.
05:04Frankly, at that moment,
05:05when you see his story,
05:06You tell yourself that things aren't looking good for him.
05:08And yet, it is in this misery that something will germinate.
05:11Because if Dalip owns nothing,
05:12It's true,
05:13He has at least one unique characteristic that no one around him has.
05:16its size.
05:16From adolescence onwards,
05:17He's already ahead of everyone else in his village.
05:19and once he's an adult,
05:20He will look for work elsewhere.
05:21because her village of Irena can no longer offer her anything.
05:24He finds himself in Achimla.
05:25the capital of Limachal Pradesh,
05:27a slightly larger city,
05:28but which is still very modest on the scale of India.
05:31There, he landed a job as a security guard.
05:33When you are over 2 meters tall
05:34and that you already weigh 130 kilos,
05:36This is a position that seems quite suitable for you.
05:37No diploma required.
05:38no need to know how to read or write,
05:40You are tall.
05:40You are imposing,
05:41You scare people.
05:42Welcome, you're hired.
05:43It's not glorious,
05:44But it pays off.
05:45Dalip will be working for a while.
05:47by keeping premises,
05:48by monitoring entrances
05:49and we could very well imagine
05:50that his entire life will be summed up by this.
05:52Except that one day,
05:53Someone will notice.
05:54A police officer
05:55named Mahal Singh Boulard
05:57pass this way
05:57and stumbles upon this colossus in front of a building.
05:59even the one that is currently hiding the building.
06:01This officer,
06:02He's not just anyone,
06:03he is known in the region
06:04for having helped several athletes to develop.
06:06He has an eye for identifying atypical profiles.
06:08And when he sees Dalip,
06:10he immediately understands the potential
06:11and is already offering him a job in the police force.
06:14Dalip, him, all that,
06:15It's not something that interests him.
06:16His life revolves around his home village.
06:18His daily life today,
06:19It's about keeping doors open.
06:20The idea of leaving everything behind,
06:21He's not at all keen on it.
06:22The police officer will insist
06:23And to convince him,
06:24He will also offer a position to his brother.
06:26Both are in the police force.
06:28a real salary
06:28true stability.
06:29By joining this profession,
06:31Dalip will discover a passion.
06:32bodybuilding.
06:33He starts training
06:34to lift cast iron
06:35during his free time
06:36And you can imagine,
06:37but already,
06:37He's one of the guys
06:38with the most force.
06:39He's building himself a physique
06:40and in 1997,
06:41he wins the title
06:43of Mister India in bodybuilding.
06:44The following year,
06:45He regains it.
06:46It was during this period
06:47that a possibility emerges in his mind.
06:49Something he saw on TV
06:50on a purchased station
06:51with his first police officer salaries,
06:53wrestling.
06:54Giant guys like him
06:55who fight in a ring
06:56in front of delirious crowds
06:57in a country on the other side of the world.
06:59In reality, he has a chance.
07:00As a result,
07:00in 1999,
07:02Dalip Singh Rana
07:03makes a radical decision.
07:04He's leaving for the United States.
07:05He hardly speaks any English.
07:07he never set foot
07:08outside of his country
07:09and he doesn't know anyone
07:10in the American wrestling scene.
07:12Yet here he is, having landed in California.
07:14Imagine the contrast.
07:15We're talking about a guy
07:16who grew up in a village
07:17without running water
07:18and who ends up in the United States,
07:20in California,
07:21the state of all excesses.
07:22His goal is simple,
07:24learn wrestling
07:24and get noticed
07:25by a large federation.
07:26He then landed
07:27to All Pro Wrestling.
07:28APW,
07:29It's a wrestling school
07:30based in High Ward, California,
07:32about forty minutes
07:33south of San Francisco.
07:34This isn't WWE.
07:35This isn't WCW.
07:37It's a small, independent structure
07:39but who has a real reputation
07:40in the middle.
07:41In 1999,
07:42APW notably appeared
07:43in the documentary
07:44Beyond the Mat,
07:45which caused an explosion
07:46registrations in the federation.
07:47Dalib is going to train there
07:48under the name Giant Singh.
07:50His first match takes place
07:51October 7, 2000
07:52teamed up with Tony Jones.
07:53It is slow,
07:54He's not very athletic.
07:55and he doesn't understand half of it
07:56from what is said to him in English
07:57in the ring,
07:58But anyway,
07:58it is immense
07:59and in wrestling,
08:00Sometimes that's enough.
08:01A certain promotion
08:02bearing the name
08:03World Championship Wrestling
08:04will notice it.
08:05WCW,
08:06She is the main rival
08:07of WWE at the time.
08:08Today,
08:09even though it's extremely different
08:10and not at all
08:11on the same scale,
08:12it's as if he were signing
08:13at AEW,
08:14bulk.
08:14So WCW signs Dalib
08:16And for him,
08:17It's the jackpot.
08:17just a few months
08:18after leaving India,
08:20he finds himself in one
08:20of the two largest promotions
08:22of wrestling in the world.
08:23Except that Dalib never goes
08:24wrestler for WCW.
08:25Not a single match.
08:26not a single television appearance
08:28Nothing.
08:28Yes, indeed.
08:29because in March 2001,
08:30WCW is being bought out
08:31by her rival,
08:32Vince McMahon's WWF.
08:34Overnight,
08:35dozens of wrestlers
08:36find themselves without work.
08:37Some will succeed
08:38to get their swan out of the game
08:39by signing with the WWF,
08:41others, on the other hand
08:42will stay at home
08:43while waiting for a call
08:44or that their contract expires.
08:45For his part,
08:46Dalib has neither the notoriety
08:47nor the contacts to bounce back.
08:49He finds himself trapped.
08:50No more WCW,
08:52no contract with the WWF
08:54English that was still just as broken
08:55and therefore a dream
08:56which seems to be collapsing
08:57before it's even begun.
08:58As a result,
08:59the only thing he can do,
09:00it's going back to training
09:01to APW.
09:02Practice your shots,
09:03hoping for another opportunity
09:05eventually arrives.
09:06That's where we need to talk
09:07of a different destiny,
09:08the career of another wrestler
09:09who will cross paths with the giant.
09:11Brian Ong,
09:11a young man
09:12who lives in Berkeley, California.
09:14If Dalib was the poor kid
09:16from an Indian village
09:16lost in the mountains,
09:17Brian, on the other hand,
09:18On paper, it's almost the opposite.
09:20An American,
09:21born in 1974,
09:22who grew up in the Bay Area,
09:24one of the regions
09:24the most dynamic in the United States.
09:26He has a stable job,
09:27He is an office worker.
09:28in a consulting firm,
09:29it's the kind of box
09:30who gives you a badge,
09:31a parking space and a routine.
09:33But if during the day,
09:33He files documents.
09:34Well, in parallel,
09:35he is leading a second life
09:36that no one around him
09:37one cannot imagine.
09:38Brian has his secret.
09:39Not a shameful secret,
09:40a dream,
09:41something he keeps to himself
09:42and nurtured in silence
09:43He wants to become a wrestler one day.
09:45Issue,
09:46He is 1.70m tall
09:47and therefore contrary
09:48to Dalib's physique,
09:49when we see Brian Ong
09:51at first glance,
09:51We don't think that he's made for that.
09:53I remind you that at that time,
09:54despite Shawn Michaels
09:55or catchers of that kind,
09:56there's always that cliché
09:57of having to be a little massive
09:59to reach the summits
09:59of a federation.
10:01Brian is passionate.
10:02For years,
10:03He watches wrestling.
10:04He studies the catches.
10:05already sees himself up there
10:06in front of a ring
10:06thousands of spectators.
10:08And indeed,
10:08he will send an email
10:09application to All Pro Wrestling
10:11this same wrestling federation
10:12in which Dalib was active
10:14the future Great Khali,
10:15at that time.
10:16In his email,
10:16he will indicate
10:17that he did a lot of weight training
10:18to compensate for its size,
10:19that it was his dream
10:20to be cheered or booed
10:22by a crowd
10:22and that he adored
10:23aerial sockets
10:24somewhat suicidal.
10:25All Pro Wrestling
10:26will accept his application
10:27and after paying $6000,
10:29a still significant sum
10:30for him at the time,
10:31he will be able to begin his training
10:33approximately one year.
10:33And then,
10:34we need to talk about a detail
10:35that Brian will carefully
10:36to keep to himself.
10:37Before wrestling,
10:38He did karate
10:39and not just a little,
10:40enough to participate
10:41to tournaments in his region.
10:43The problem,
10:43It's because, as the competitions progress,
10:45He will suffer head injuries.
10:465 concussions.
10:48That's huge.
10:49Quite enormous
10:49so that the organizers
10:50of these competitions
10:51they end up refusing it.
10:52His medical history
10:53is too heavy
10:54already here
10:55They consider the risk too great.
10:56These 5 concussions,
10:57Brian will not mention them
10:58at no time
10:59during his candidacy
11:00to All Pro Wrestling.
11:01Not a word about it.
11:02nor about his past in karate,
11:04Nothing at all.
11:05Behind,
11:05He's going to train hard.
11:06he was one of the students
11:07the most motivated in the training program.
11:09Brian,
11:09that's the kind of wrestler
11:10who arrives first
11:11and leaves last.
11:12A true enthusiast.
11:13He's working,
11:13He is progressing.
11:14It absorbs everything like a sponge.
11:15then we arrive
11:164 months of training.
11:184 months,
11:18It's nothing in wrestling.
11:19Something quite special.
11:21it's that almost no one
11:22in his family
11:22is not aware
11:23that he trains in the rings.
11:27by Brian Ong
11:28they know absolutely nothing
11:29every night
11:30after work,
11:31He goes to a wrestling school.
11:32Is it out of shame?
11:33or is it just not yet
11:34serious enough to take responsibility for it,
11:35especially given his physique,
11:36That might have been surprising.
11:37One thing is certain, in any case,
11:38at that time,
11:39no one is aware
11:40And Brian is struggling financially.
11:41Training is expensive.
11:43everyday life too
11:44and Brian ended up borrowing
11:45money
11:45and accumulate debts.
11:47There, we really
11:48the portrait of a passionate man,
11:49a guy who sacrifices everything
11:50for wrestling.
11:51That's just extremely respectable.
11:52His dream is there
11:53and he's doing everything he can to achieve it
11:54by training every evening
11:55like a madman in this gym
11:57facing guys
11:57twice as huge as him.
11:59Exactly,
12:00in a few days,
12:00he will find himself
12:01facing the greatest of them,
12:02a certain Dalip Singh Rana.
12:07It is Monday, May 28, 2001
12:09in the evening.
12:10The sun is beginning to set
12:11on Hayward in California
12:12and in the converted warehouse
12:14in the gymnasium
12:15to train for wrestling,
12:16about ten people
12:16are preparing
12:17for the training session.
12:18An evening like any other
12:20for All Pro Wrestling.
12:21The students in the training program
12:22they arrive after their workday,
12:23they put on their clothes
12:25And they step into the ring.
12:26Brian Ong is here.
12:27Dalip Singh Rana too.
12:28At this stage,
12:29I remind you,
12:29the two men
12:30are less than six months old
12:31of training for each.
12:32They are still at the stage
12:33where they learn
12:33to fall properly
12:35to roll,
12:35to absorb shocks.
12:36They're far from being professional wrestlers.
12:38They are still students.
12:39literally.
12:40Dalip is still talking
12:41barely any English.
12:42But in wrestling,
12:43Communication is quite important
12:44to create sequences of shots.
12:45The wrestlers are talking to each other
12:46between them in the ring
12:47to synchronize,
12:48to give themselves instructions,
12:50etc., etc.
12:50That evening,
12:52They will want to work on a grip.
12:53the Spine Buster.
12:54It involves lifting your opponent
12:56before dropping it
12:57on the ground on his back.
12:58A wrestling classic.
12:59but which requires
12:59precise coordination
13:01between the two combatants involved.
13:02The one who gives the hold
13:03must manage his opponent's body
13:05and the one who receives it
13:06must know how
13:07to position oneself in the air.
13:09Except that here,
13:09So you have on one side
13:10Dalip,
13:112.16m,
13:12probably around 180kg
13:13at that time,
13:14and on the other hand,
13:15Brian Ong,
13:161.70m,
13:1784kg.
13:18A gap that sometimes happens
13:19in wrestling,
13:19unlike other combat sports,
13:21because it's scripted,
13:22the little ones can find themselves
13:24facing the giants.
13:25Dalip,
13:25the Greek Kali,
13:26Brian then raises
13:27in order to perform the take,
13:28but at the moment when Brian
13:29is supposed to fall backwards
13:31this last one catches
13:32Kali's t-shirt.
13:32By doing this,
13:33Brian loses control
13:34of its trajectory
13:35during his fall,
13:36and the coach,
13:36Vince Principato,
13:37then stop the exercise
13:38to correct the wrestler
13:39and explain the grip to him.
13:41So that Brian
13:41Understand the movement well,
13:42Dalip will execute the take
13:44with two other people
13:45present that evening.
13:46Everything is going well.
13:49Brian needs to see exactly
13:51how it's supposed to happen.
13:52Second attempt,
13:53Dalip lifts Brian up again.
13:54It's the same movement,
13:55the same shot,
13:56the same instructions
13:57that he has just received
13:58just a few minutes ago.
13:59Yet,
14:00Brian catches again
14:01Kali's t-shirt.
14:02Except that this time,
14:03his coccyx touches the ground
14:04first, during the fall.
14:05His head then whipped.
14:06violently the ring mat
14:08in a dull thud
14:08which echoes in the gymnasium.
14:11Brian does not get up.
14:12He is lying down.
14:13dizzy
14:13and begins to moan.
14:15The people around him are watching him.
14:16no one really reacts
14:17at the time,
14:17thinking that Brian certainly
14:19suffered a bad fall.
14:20It's part of the job.
14:21He tries to move,
14:22he crawls towards the ropes
14:23to get out of the ring,
14:24gets down on all fours
14:25and vomit
14:26before collapsing.
14:27Of course,
14:28Emergency services will be called.
14:29You have to imagine the atmosphere
14:30at that time
14:31in the gymnasium,
14:31everyone around Brian,
14:33powerless,
14:34waiting for the ambulances to arrive.
14:35Right away,
14:36the apprentice wrestler
14:36will get laid
14:37on a stretcher
14:37head to the nearest hospital,
14:39the Saint-Rocé Hospital
14:40a few kilometers away.
14:41A short journey,
14:43However, it's still too long.
14:44Brian Hong will be declared dead
14:45upon his arrival at the hospital.
14:47There are a few dozen
14:48just minutes,
14:49He was still standing.
14:50active in the ring.
14:51Losing life so quickly
14:52at 27 years old,
14:53It's just horrible.
14:54The official cause of death
14:55being the hemorrhage
14:56caused by head trauma.
14:58In other words,
14:58the shock of his head
14:59against the ring mat
15:00caused bleeding.
15:01An office worker,
15:03Indebted but passionate,
15:04who hid his wounds
15:05to follow his passion.
15:06The hardest thing to accept
15:07when we look
15:08this story from the outside,
15:09it's only a few weeks
15:10following the death of Brian Hong,
15:12All Pro Wrestling organizes
15:13his King of Indies 2001.
15:15A tournament that will bring together
15:16names you know
15:17all of us today,
15:18AJ Styles,
15:19Samoa Joe,
15:19Daniel Bryan,
15:20guys who will become
15:21wrestling legends,
15:22all present in the same federation,
15:24in the same place,
15:25and Brian Hong would have been very good
15:26could gravitate around that.
15:27Roland Alexander,
15:28the founder of All Pro Wrestling,
15:30will make the decision
15:31to continue the classes,
15:32to continue the shows
15:33and to continue the federation.
15:35For his part,
15:36Dalip,
15:36Greg Kelly,
15:37has finally returned
15:38train afterwards
15:39and during his only
15:40public comment
15:40on the subject in 2015,
15:42He will say that it shook him up.
15:43that he felt unwell
15:45but that there was nothing he could have done.
15:46He wasn't going to stop
15:47wrestling
15:48And that's how it is.
15:49At the end of 2001,
15:50Dalip leaves California
15:51and leaves for Japan
15:52by signing with New Japan,
15:53the biggest Japanese promotion.
15:55He will even go to Mexico
15:56on the side of the prestigious CMLL
15:58and in January 2006,
15:59The phone call finally comes in.
16:00WWE offered him a contract.
16:035 years after the death
16:04by Brian Hong
16:05Dalip Singrana
16:06officially becomes
16:06Greg Kelly,
16:07a wrestler
16:08in the biggest promotion
16:09of wrestling in the world.
16:10He attacks the Undertaker
16:11to SmackDown
16:11and the rest of the story,
16:12You might know her,
16:13He will eventually become champion.
16:15the legend that we all know today.
16:17Following the death of Brian Hong,
16:18his family obviously wants
16:19answers.
16:20Knowing who is responsible,
16:21especially since they discovered
16:22that he was doing wrestling at the same time.
16:24In September 2002,
16:25One year after the tragedy,
16:26he therefore files a complaint
16:27for involuntary manslaughter.
16:29All Pro Wrestling,
16:30its owner Roland Alexander
16:31and Dalip,
16:32Greg Kelly,
16:33they all find themselves involved in the case.
16:34The family's argument is simple,
16:36All Pro Wrestling
16:37had the responsibility
16:38to protect his students.
16:39More broadly,
16:40the federation had a small reputation
16:42to be incredibly punitive
16:43and hard,
16:44even when injuries occur
16:45where they could give the students bad grades
16:47and blame them.
16:48The family also blamed
16:49that Brian had to train
16:50with a giant of 2.16m
16:52who barely spoke English
16:53and which was described
16:54as having a dangerous and rigid style.
16:55No protective equipment,
16:57inadequate supervision,
16:58In short, according to them,
16:59Pure and simple negligence.
17:01For his part,
17:01Roland Alexander,
17:02So, the boss of All Pro Wrestling,
17:04will defend himself with a simple argument,
17:06Brian had signed a waiver
17:07before joining the training program.
17:09A document in which
17:10he accepted it in black and white
17:11the risks associated with practicing wrestling.
17:13Well, you know the judicial system,
17:15even in the United States,
17:15It takes years.
17:16The complaint was filed in 2002.
17:18but that was only in 2005
17:19that the trial is about to begin.
17:21And then,
17:21The past will resurface.
17:22Do you remember the concussions?
17:23that Brian had suffered
17:25in karate before?
17:26Well, that's going to come out
17:26during the trial
17:27and be exposed before the judges.
17:29Brian had suffered
17:305 concussions
17:31before registering
17:32in the wrestling federation.
17:33He had even been banished
17:34karate tournament
17:35because of that
17:35and he had never spoken about it.
17:37Neither in his candidacy,
17:38nor in his interview.
17:39PW will therefore defend itself
17:41by saying that
17:41if they had been aware,
17:43they probably wouldn't have
17:44never accepted
17:44in training.
17:45Brian had lied to them
17:46or at least,
17:47He omitted some information.
17:48which would have changed the game
17:49according to them.
17:50But anyway,
17:50That won't be enough.
17:51to pay them
17:52because the jury
17:53will also retain
17:53another element.
17:54Two days before Brian's death,
17:56the latter had suffered
17:57a concussion
17:57during a training session
17:58at the PW.
17:59The coaches
18:00had therefore sent him back
18:00in the ring
18:01just two days later
18:02without any medical evaluation
18:04nor any protocol
18:05to ensure
18:05that everything was fine.
18:06This error
18:06will tip the verdict.
18:08Unanimously,
18:09the judges rule
18:09in support of the Ong family,
18:11PW is recognized
18:12guilty of negligence
18:13having led
18:14upon Brian's death.
18:15Between 1 and 2 million dollars
18:16compensation
18:17would have been required.
18:18The federation has insurance,
18:20fortunately for her,
18:21this will cover
18:22a large part of the amount.
18:23A few years later,
18:24in 2013,
18:25his boss Roland Alexander will die
18:27due to health problems
18:28And today,
18:29The PW still exists.
18:30Legally,
18:31The case is closed.
18:32But the whole subject
18:32from this video, in particular,
18:34it's about knowing
18:34if the great Kali
18:35killed a wrestler.
18:36Because this story
18:37will follow him throughout his career
18:38even upon his arrival
18:39to WWE.
18:40Kali is seen
18:41like a dangerous wrestler
18:42and I remember
18:43from this anecdote
18:43by David Otunga, for example.
18:45He explained that one day,
18:46Kali came to see him
18:47before a match
18:47to offer him
18:49to perform the maneuver.
18:50Otunga remembering
18:51of the accident
18:51which we were just talking about
18:52will not want to do it
18:53and Kali will make fun of him a little
18:54noticing that he was afraid.
18:56David Otunga
18:56will then use cunning
18:57by listening to the advice
18:58of an agent
18:59who had told him
18:59to do it on purpose
19:00terribly unfavorable winds
19:02of the socket
19:02so that it
19:03so abominable
19:04that he would never again
19:05then want
19:05to offer him the deal.
19:06Brief,
19:07So Kali dragged her feet.
19:08this bad reputation
19:09with him.
19:09Did he kill a wrestler?
19:11The answer is simple.
19:12The jury officially
19:13completely exonerated
19:14during the trial,
19:15no personal responsibility
19:17not being held against him.
19:18The accident was an accident.
19:20Dalip had no
19:21malicious intent
19:22He was a wrestler
19:23inexperienced at the time
19:24who was undergoing training
19:25to improve.
19:26We can't blame
19:27an accident involving a student
19:28especially since the postman
19:29main point of this drama
19:31was that Brian Hong
19:32grabbed Kali's t-shirt,
19:34In other words,
19:34It wasn't his fault.
19:35All this without even mentioning
19:36from his past with his concussions.
19:37Well, then,
19:38Kali is Kali,
19:39I'm not saying
19:40that's the guy
19:40the most cautious in history,
19:42we're still talking
19:42of a wrestler with whom
19:43It is difficult to work.
19:45obviously.
19:45But then,
19:46factually,
19:46He didn't kill a wrestler.
19:48he just had a role
19:49dramatic in his death.
19:50After his career
19:51to WWE in 2012,
19:53we will remember
19:54that his illness,
19:54Acromegaly had not forgotten her,
19:56a similar tumor
19:57to the one who had killed
19:58André the Giant,
19:59except for Dalip,
20:00unlike André,
20:01will have an operation.
20:02It will be a success.
20:03he will return to the ring
20:04two years later
20:04before finally
20:05Hang up the boots.
20:06In all of this,
20:07This may surprise you
20:07But there is irony.
20:08since 2015,
20:09he opened his own school
20:11wrestling in India
20:11Continental Wrestling Entertainment.
20:14Some will undoubtedly judge
20:15this bold choice,
20:16Kali is not either
20:16the best wrestler,
20:18the reason why
20:18he had his career
20:19it's mainly his physique
20:20more than his talent, in reality
20:22and what's more,
20:23he found himself
20:23in a fatal accident.
20:25But anyway,
20:25In the end,
20:26It will bear fruit.
20:27He does have experience, though.
20:28some wrestlers from the school
20:29they even signed
20:30with WWE.
20:31Finally,
20:31in 2021,
20:32This is the final crowning
20:33for the wrestler
20:34when he is inaugurated
20:35in the Hall of Fame
20:36of the WWE.
20:37Kali officially enters
20:38in the wrestling pantheon
20:39alongside the biggest
20:41legends of history.
20:41One of them became immortal.
20:43and the other one was forgotten.
20:44And perhaps that's it.
20:45basically,
20:46the saddest thing
20:46in all of this.
20:47Brian Ong had the same dream
20:49that the Great Kali
20:50but unfortunately
20:51not the same destiny.
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