6 highly controversial decisions that Vince McMahon was right about

#3. The Jinder Mahal experiment

An admittedly terrible title reign

Now, once again, we repeat - before you bring out the pitchforks, hear us out. The Jinder Mahal experiment failed for a reason and at the time, he simply wasn't ready for that kind of a push. It was undoubtedly detrimental to SmackDown Live at the time (especially after the incredible 2016 it had), but this falls less on Jinder Mahal and more on WWE.

With that being said, the decision to have the Jinder Mahal experiment was correct. The execution, on the other hand, was not. Jinder Mahal has a great look and even when he was WWE Champion, he carried himself like a serious main event player. There were a few WWE Champions prior who looked as good holding the title, but what WWE did was rush his push.

They should have built Mahal up over the course of a year or two and given him a midcard title reign first before heating him up for the WWE title. What they did was turn him from a jobber to main eventer in one week. It was never going to work.

Mahal's title win was also strategically planned with WWE's tour of India. The management knew that Mahal would draw in crowds owing to his ethnicity and it is an experiment that paid dividends for the brand.

Mahal took an alternative route to his WWE championship reign, unlike his former tag team partner Drew McIntyre, who had to labor his way to reach the pinnacle.