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Meltzer says Jinder Mahal winning the title is a real possibility, his stable will be pushed hard moving forward

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#1 ·
On his latest WOR podcast. Someone on Reddit did a good job of summarising what he said.

On the latest Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave said that Jinder Mahal's title shot was because WWE views India as an important country due to India's high population (it's the country with the most WWE social media followers), and they want to push an Indian (even though he's actually Canadian) star in Jinder and the Bollywood Boyz. Several other companies have been making movements towards India, including Impact, and WWE doesn't want to be pushed out of the market. Dave doesn't entirely dismiss the possibility that Jinder could beat Randy Orton, but notes that whether they win or lose, WWE has a lot planned on the horizon for the Indian stable. He also said that this push towards India was a recent development, because otherwise they would have been protecting Jinder more and given him more than two singles wins in the past 8 months.
Regardless of whether he wins at Backlash or not, it looks like this Jinder push is going to go on for quite some time. Apparently the Singh brothers have been helping Jeet Rama win matches at NXT house shows, theres a possibility he gets brought up and added to the stable too.

A Jinder Mahal title reign is going to come sooner or later, folks. Better just accept it now rather than meltdown later. WWE going hard for that Indian money.
 
#5 ·
Eh, if that's the case, you better start giving the guy some big wins and actually present him as a threat.

I don't have a problem with someone like Jinder getting a shot. What I have problem with is a guy who has been nothing but an enhancement talent for a year and suddenly I'm supposed to take him seriously in a main event role? Again, they have A LOT of work to do.
 
#9 ·
I haven't spoken at all on the Jinder situation, so here's my take:

I think randomly thrusting him to world title conetention was silly, build him up a bit first. We're here now tho, so I'm open to see what could happen. He won't win the WWE Championshio by any means but hey, if he and the BWB's can put out some good work and get me to care about him we might have a solid midcarder out of him.
 
#18 ·
I just don't get it. I see people saying 'HE WORKS SO HARD THO!' but like, so what? So why isn't Sammy Zayn getting this push? Especially when in Jinder's case working hard means taking steroids. That's what bothers me about this push. Just because he suddenly bulks up taking Roids he gets a push.

Mean while I follow a guy like Ryder on Instagram, who lives breaths and eats everything WWE and has been working his ass off for some time now to bulk up legitimately.

I get the statement is somewhat hypocritical as we've all supported roid freaks in the past.... but it just feels different when somebody is brought into wrestling that way, vs somebody who gets pushed seemingly souly because he started doing it.

I hope a guy like Ryder gets a similar push when he returns. That is a guy who truly does work his ass off and really cares about this company.

I really hope with this push Jinder proves he can be more than a roid freak.

I also kinda wish they could drop the whole Sikh gimmick. That or give him Tiger Ali Singh's theme. That shit was a dope heel theme.

This sounds kinda weird... but I'd like to see Jinder go more the way of a Razor Ramon style gimmick.
 
#22 ·
Jinder Mahal is a bigger potential draw than Zack Ryder, thats why.

India has a population of 1.2 billion people. WWE can make insane amounts of money there if they push Jinder Mahal hard.

This is just business at the end of the day, and its all about money. Whoever can bring in the most money will most often be pushed hardest.

And the people here complaining about Jinder, I can only imagine what you will say when Tian Bing is winning world titles.
 
#20 ·
Mahal and Singh Bro's are born and raised Indo-Canadians. Khali was a native of India, as are a couple developmentals Jeet Rama and Krishan Raftar. Jeet Rama is getting more matches lately in NXT, I wonder if they plan to add him to this stable to have a native Indian as part of the troupe. Rama and Rafter both arrived at the PC in June 2015 as pure green backs, so they're near two years of training from scratch.

 
#23 ·
I was so wrong on this then lol. I thought it was like playing on racial stereotypes after his promo when he conversed with the fans and called himself the American dream. But I mean I don't really know, we'll have to see. I love diversity in general so if Meltzer is right, which he usually is, it can only mean good things for future WWE talent, whether it's good for Jinder? Idk, that's why they keep us tuned in..... we'll have to wait and see.
 
#27 ·
I've been saying this since it happened now. WWE wants to tap into that Indian market, and from a business standpoint I kinda can't blame them.

However, that doesn't just forgive that he just is not good at all. He doesn't look like he's improved at all since he got back, and if they put the title on him we're probably gonna get poorer overall match quality and poorer overall segment quality. He'd probably be the least talented champion in decades, just a body and that's about it.
 
#29 ·
There is 1 Billion more people in India than there is in the US! WWE would be stupid not to tap into that market. Jinder could become a megastar and should. Hes more interesting and is better at promos than almost everyone else on Smackdown.
 
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