Jinder Mahal was a jobber one month prior to his WWE Championship win. There's no easy way to say it, he was just losing every match. Then he's traded to SmackDown and suddenly wins a number one contender match for Randy Orton's WWE Championship. We've seen this a thousand times before. Random jobber wins a championship shot and then just gets dominated. That's not what happened this time.
Jinder took that one moment and ran with. He stole the WWE Championship and enlisted the Bollywood Boys as security, got a limo and had the time of his life. Always seeming to be one step ahead of Randy Orton. Constantly reminding him that he had lost a step. Jinder's promos also came up a level. Explaining that racism was a wide spread disease in America and he planned to overcome it. Meanwhile Randy told everyone there's no such thing as racism and Jinder is just an asshole. If you list to the Powerbomb Jutsu podcast, we literally can not go a month without Randy tweeting something borderline or blatantly racist that we have to talk about. They say the best feuds are those based on real life; with Jinder being an actual Indian-Canadian and Randy Orton on the Hulk Hogan spectrum of racism it made for some great television, but nobody expected Jinder to win the gold.
Backlash rolls around and Randy just beats Jinder for what seems like half an hour with Jinder getting in absolutely no offense. Then out of nowhere Jinder hits his finisher and the ref counts to three. Jinder is your new WWE Champion. It was a moment of shock for me and many others who couldn't believe they did it and gave us someone new as the top guy. It was a great moment for Jinder and lot of fans. Currently as I write this SmackDown's champions are Jinder Mahal, Kevin Owens, The Uso Twins and Naomi. Kevin is the only white person on that list, do you know how rare that is for pro wrestling? Almost as rare as a blue lobster. On top of that SmackDown has been doing it's best ratings in a decade, even beating Raw on occasion so it works.
Then reality set in, everyone does not love Jinder as champion. I went to see what Reddit was thinking and the major wrestling subreddit was shut down for almost an hour. Suddenly tweets about Jinder already being the worst WWE Champion were flowing. When r/squaredcircle opened back up some people were happy but there were plenty of people speaking on how horrible Jinder was for business. There were dozens of "I'm not racist but," comments flowing in from across the internet and they were all racist.
The thing that hurt me most were the people claiming he's not good enough to be champion. The same excuse they use when people ask why The Rock is the only black WWE Champion in history. The excuse is almost always that there haven't been black wrestlers talented enough. But if we're being honest there have been dozens of white wrestlers who held that championship that were mediocre at best or only good at one aspect of the business. Yet the moment a minority wrestler is given a reign all of the excuses come out.
Jinder deserves just as much a chance to shine as Dean Ambrose was given with his lackluster reign, monotone promos and predictable matches. It's unfair that people were willing to be done with WWE over this or post pictures of them cancelling their network subscriptions. Not to mention the racial slurs thrown at him.
I'm not saying Jinder will have the best championship reign ever. I'm just saying we need to give him a chance the same way other talent has been. It's not that he went from jobber to champ because that's happened plenty of times before. It happened with Dolph Ziggler and to an extent with Damian Sandow after their money in the bank wins. Writing off Jinder right away because your favorite wrestler didn't win is silly. If that were the case I would have turned off WWE when Bobby Lashley left.
The only issue I have with Jinder being champion is the fans. The fans constantly berated Orton on Twitter about being boring. The fans constantly complained they were tired of seeing the same guys trade the championship around like hot potato. The same fans that begged WWE for something new and praised SmackDown for trying new things like pushing Baron Corbin to the main event scene and making Bray Wyatt champ. These people constantly begged and pleaded that something unpredictable happened and when it happens it's met with nothing but hate. This is what you asked for and instead of watching it play out, you ask for the same thing you supposedly hated.
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The thing that hurt me most were the people claiming he's not good enough to be champion. The same excuse they use when people ask why The Rock is the only black WWE Champion in history. The excuse is almost always that there haven't been black wrestlers talented enough. But if we're being honest there have been dozens of white wrestlers who held that championship that were mediocre at best or only good at one aspect of the business. Yet the moment a minority wrestler is given a reign all of the excuses come out.
Jinder deserves just as much a chance to shine as Dean Ambrose was given with his lackluster reign, monotone promos and predictable matches. It's unfair that people were willing to be done with WWE over this or post pictures of them cancelling their network subscriptions. Not to mention the racial slurs thrown at him.
I'm not saying Jinder will have the best championship reign ever. I'm just saying we need to give him a chance the same way other talent has been. It's not that he went from jobber to champ because that's happened plenty of times before. It happened with Dolph Ziggler and to an extent with Damian Sandow after their money in the bank wins. Writing off Jinder right away because your favorite wrestler didn't win is silly. If that were the case I would have turned off WWE when Bobby Lashley left.
The only issue I have with Jinder being champion is the fans. The fans constantly berated Orton on Twitter about being boring. The fans constantly complained they were tired of seeing the same guys trade the championship around like hot potato. The same fans that begged WWE for something new and praised SmackDown for trying new things like pushing Baron Corbin to the main event scene and making Bray Wyatt champ. These people constantly begged and pleaded that something unpredictable happened and when it happens it's met with nothing but hate. This is what you asked for and instead of watching it play out, you ask for the same thing you supposedly hated.
You can hear Darrell on the CP Time and Powerbomb Jutsu podcasts. He also plays classic arcade games on The Cabinet. You can also check out his playthrough of Sleeping Dogs or Skyrim
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