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#3 Jinder Mahal is wrestling for the WWE Championship

I don’t dislike Jinder as much as most people seem to. I think he’s much better at cutting promos than he’s given credit for. I think he carries himself like a star. I think, even though he’s not a main event calibre Superstar, he is trying his hardest to live up to the expectations that he has been given under his unique circumstance.

At the same time, his run as a “top guy” is coming to a close, and it looks like the experiment has failed. He’s not good enough for the spot he’s in and hasn’t made anybody believe he should be an upper echelon guy. It hasn’t made the company money or drawn the interest of anybody (at least not in a way positive for WWE).

Chances are that if this wasn’t an event in which all of the WWE championships had to be defended, they would have gone a different direction. Jinder may have received his rematch on an episode of SmackDown instead of PPV. AJ Styles may have found himself intertwined in the Owens/Zayn/McMahon/Bryan feud in some manner since he’s the WWE Champion, and could have been involved in some form in that match instead.

That, or he would simply have a better opponent lined up. There are plenty of variables, but the one constant remains. Jinder Mahal is done as far as being on the top of the card, and even a match with AJ Styles doesn’t change that.

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I got my first big break writing for 411Mania back in 2004. I did a small spot in a big weekly piece that was written by one of the site's top writers. I quickly added the duty of being the live recapper for episodes of SmackDown, and in 2005 was given my own weekly column, which I did for a few years. I gave up writing (mostly) to start a family but got back into it, still at 411, a little over 3 years later. For another couple of years, I wrote 2-3 columns per week for the website before finding paid work elsewhere, and eventually wound up at SportsKeeda.

I am also the co-founder of the RBR: Weekly Wrestling Talk podcast, which started in the summer of 2005 and is still going strong today, almost 15 years later. Due to school, work, and family commitments, I left the team in 2011 but still remain a part of the family.

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