#5 Jinder Mahal was being overshadowed
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Jinder Mahal has had to do a lot of convincing to prove he’s a believable WWE champion, and it hasn’t helped that the two holders of SmackDown’s secondary title during his reign have been Kevin Owens and AJ Styles.
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KO and AJ are Superstars whose rivalries should be main-eventing PPVs, never mind weekly SmackDown shows, and their feud this year - first with each other and then with Shane McMahon - has been overshadowing Jinder’s storylines.
The WWE Championship will always be the main title on whatever show it’s on, but it didn’t feel that way when a Superstar the calibre of AJ was holding the US Championship.
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