Former WWE star Shawn Daivari was recently a guest on the Wrestling Inc Podcast. He spoke on a wide variety of topics. One of these topics had to do with the very first ‘Punjabi Prison’ match.
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The first ‘Punjabi Prison’ match was supposed to be the Great Khali vs the Undertaker back in 2006. Khali was eventually pulled from the match and replaced by the Big Show.
Daivari revealed during the podcast that Pat Patterson was the man who came up with the rules for the ‘Punjabi Prison’ match. He actually made up the match rules on the fly based on false finishes that he wanted to use for the Undertaker:
“And then Pat [Patterson] comes up and is like, ‘Why don’t maybe,’ cause there’s a little cage with four doors, there’s a big Hell in a Cell size cage outside of it. Pat goes, ‘What if the doors open once and then they shut every 60 seconds and once they shut, they don’t reopen. And that way we create a false finish by Taker can get out, but when the last one opens, you throw him back in, the door shuts, he’s locked in there, you look like it escaped and then Taker gets over the top”
He continued:
“I was like, ‘This motherf—er is just making up rules to create false finishes. This is amazing.’ I knew he was smart but just seeing that process right in front of me, I would never have the wherewithal to create that scenario”
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Pat is also credited with being the brains behind the Royal Rumble match, among other creations.
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