The Development Of Jinder Mahal

The most surprising push of 2017 has to be Jinder Mahal going after the WWE Championship on Smackdown. This time last year, Mahal wasn't even in the company. He was released by the company. He was never a popular worker. The WWE never pushed him to be a star. He never even seemed like a great worker that had potential to become popular or deserved to be pushed as a star. The WWE bringing him back was surprising enough, but he now finds himself in a big feud with Randy Orton.

What has the WWE done to develop him? Because they needed to develop him. He lacks a ton of credibility and needs work for a lot of fans to buy into him. The WWE couldn't just dump a title shot in his lap. Thankfully, the WWE hasn't gotten lazy here and is putting some work in for the sake of this feud. They had him take the WWE Championship belt. They had him get some sidekicks. They had him screw Randy Orton in his match with Bray Wyatt. This week on Smackdown, Mahal even pinned Orton in a tag match. Yeah, I think they have done a lot for him in this push.

Let me just go back to Orton vs. Wyatt. I can agree with Wyatt winning, but I dislike Mahal getting involved there. I know they are feuding, but the WWE could have just given it a rest for one night to give Orton vs. Wyatt a finish just between them. After everything that happened in this feud, it just seemed like it got a weak finish. Was all that they did during that feud really even worth it? Am I saying Bray Wyatt should have gotten a clean win against Randy Orton? Yes. If Cena can give clean wins these days to some heels, why can't Orton lose cleanly to Bray Wyatt to help put him over? The title wasn't on the line. Just put Wyatt over as a guy that kind successfully be a supernatural monster, following in the line of The Undertaker. The WWE failed to do that.