Jinder Mahal: I Think WWE Needs To Shit Or Get Off The Pot

[JBK2008]

Jinder would be good for the Indian market no doubt, but unless he's going to speak english more often, he's never going to connect with the crowd, let alone get a reaction out of them. He's supposed to have wealth in India right? Make him come out with servants or something that screams royalty or wealth like a JBL or Del Rio. Something that would get him some heat.

He's also going to have to win at some point and not just over DiBiase (his win streak was nice but they were all against the lowest of the lowest guys on SmackDown). A program with Sheamus could do him wonders as Sheamus is getting a good pop right now and this would at the very least get Jinder noticed.

 

[Davi323]

Jinder Mahal evokes absolutely no emotions from me. I don't even care enough about him to boo him. That is probably what is wrong with him. I haven't got the slightest clue what his purpose is supposed to be. He seems to be just some random guy wandering aimlessly around the WWE. If the WWE were to cut him loose tomorrow, a month or two from now, I MIGHT wonder where that one Indian guy went...pause for a second, realize I don't really care enough to actually find out, and then go about my business.

And yet...here I am taking the time to write about a guy I claim I don't care about. I fully recognize the hypocrisy.

 

[VinnieSunshine]

The problem with Jinder is that...they didn't really have anything interesting for him right out of the gate. They put him in a feud with one of the most unpopular guys in the WWE...The Great Khali.

I think if they would've made him like a Brock Lesnar type and just have him come out of nowhere with a manager...say, Armando Estrada, I think he could've gotten over. Yeah he probably would've been your typical monster heel, but look at the guy, he's a freaking beast!

I hope Im wrong, but unless WWE comes up with something fast, he is doomed to be future endeavored.

He really needs to just come out one day, give it a few weeks, and pick a fight with Brodus. Its going to help establish Brodus and give Jinder extreme heel heat. Let him come out, attack Brodus after a match, and then the next week call Brodus out and go off on him for being such a big man with a ridiculous gimmick (that is not a dig at Brodus, I like his gimmick). OR, while Jinder is beating on someone smaller, Brodus calls him out and tells him to pick on someone his own size.

Either way, I think a program with Brodus or someone his size will help him. Sheamus just isn't doing it.

 

[TheIndianMessiah]

Well personally I think that if wwe is trying to project him as a heel, then they should add some more Indian colours to his persona, the royal ones, afterall india is a country of various colours. The royal robe is cool, but he needs to give up using punjabi(FYI it's not the language of India, It's the language of the state of punjab) while cutting promos. I have seen the guy wrestle before, he has loads of potential, he can cut amazing promos.
I say give the guy a chance, he has a true superstar quality.

 

[Paralyzer Z]

Jinder Mahal is an example of a guy who has been handed the most generic gimmick in all of WWE, and done nothing with it.

Remember what Stone Cold Steve Austin said on Tough Enough? You take chances or create your own windows for opportunity. They gave him the Ringmaster gimmick, and he did well with it, impressing WWE and earning him the chance to become the legend that he is today. Dolph Ziggler also went down this road. He was given rather bland lines to cut promos but he managed to show charisma and connect with the audience with it, and look where he is at now. He is in a feud with one of the top superstars in the company at the moment.

Jinder seems to be in the same situation, except he has done nothing with what he has been given. WWE is testing him with how efficiently he gets over using the "foreigner" character. So far he really has not garnered much of a following or reaction from the WWE universe. He does what almost everyone has done with this gimmick prior to proving themselves with it, cut a promo bashing American fans in another language. It's really to redundant and has been done plenty of times before in the past. Jinder failed to impress in his feud with Khali, as well as recently with Sheamus. In my opinion he has yet to have a match in WWE that been more than a squash or the casual TV match.

Thus why it leads us to the current situation WWE finds themselves in. They can not decide what to do with him due to his rather underwhelming first few months, so they have no direction to take him in. He hasn't given them a reason to give him a worthy and entertaining feud. It's like Amazing red in TNA, I loved the guy, but he didn't show that he could tell a story very well in the ring. You are right when you say that he has the WWE look to him, and has potential, he seems to be at least a decent in ring worker, and not afraid to talk on the mic (though his lack of fear doesn't make up for his shortcomings in terms of cutting a compelling promo). In terms of the title I would say that WWE will continue to sit on the pot until he looses all momentum and gets released, or he begins to show us some more than we we've gotten. His slow heel push may pay off in the end, but with his decreasing relevance in WWE I can't see him rebounding. Jobbing most of the time certainly is not going to help his status either.

WWE will get off the pot, they have pushed hard for the shit too come out but it didn't.