Gurjit Singh

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Gurjit Singh
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Tiger Ali Singh "Mick" Hans Tiger Jeet Singh Jr
Billed height	196 cm (6 ft 5 in)
Billed weight	132 kg (290 lb)
Born	March 9, 1971 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Billed from	The continent of Asia
Trained by	Sweet Daddy Siki, Ron Hutchinson
Debut	1992

Gurjit Singh Hans (born March 9, 1971 in Toronto, Ontario) is an Indo-Canadian former professional wrestler best known as Tiger Ali Singh. He is the son of wrestler Tiger Jeet Singh and even teamed with his father in his first professional wrestling match against Atsushi Onita and Tarzan Goto in FMW.

[edit] Career

Born and raised in the Toronto area, Gurjit Singh was a successful high school basketball player (even attracting some U.S. colleges) before deciding that he wanted to follow his father's footsteps.

Gurjit Singh trained to be a wrestler in the New Japan Pro Wrestling dojo for six months. He spent time with Sweet Daddy Siki and Ron Hutchison at Sully's Gym in Toronto, and learned kick-boxing in Thailand and Bangkok.

Gurjit Singh signed with the World Wrestling Federation in January 1997 and the signing was announced at a press conference at the Skydome in Toronto. Singh's most notable accomplishment in 1997 was winning WWF's Kuwait Cup Tournament, held on April 9, 1997 in Kuwait City, Kuwait. He defeated Owen Hart in the finals.

He made his WWF debut on the April 21, 1997 episode of RAW but he would eventually disappear from WWF television until the Attitude Era, where he redebuted as a rich and arrogant heir to a fortune (similar to Ted DiBiase's character). He came to the ring accompanied by a manservant named Babu, and would pay random people in the audience each week to perform humiliating stunts.

Singh returned in 2000 as the manager of "Lo Down", the team of D'Lo Brown and Chaz Warrington. Lo Down and Singh were eventually sent to International Wrestling Association in Puerto Rico, removing them from WWF programming as the WCW invasion angle of 2001 started. Down in IWA, Singh was a tag team champion on several occasions. He eventually suffered a career-ending injury and was sent home to Toronto to recover. He was released from his WWE contract in July of 2002.

The next month, Singh filed a $7 million lawsuit against WWE. Among his claims were that his career-ending injury was the result of being forced to wrestle in the rain while in Puerto Rico. He also accused other WWE wrestlers of frequently calling him "taxi driver," and that he was the victim of a stunt in 1999 where his turban was stuffed with garbage. WWE attorney Jerry McDevitt countered by noting that WWE was not responsible for any injuries occurring in a different organization, and that Singh's contract could legally be ended if he suffered an injury.