Jinder Mahal

Or sorry, Random SmackDown.

No, no, he w- But when he beat Jinder Mahal.

When he beat Jinder Mahal.

Yeah, but I tho- I felt like there was one-

I mean-

You know what, Dave? It was tremendous.

And again, it's just getting with guys with Dango and Raj, Jinder Mahal, Heath Slater, Joe Henning, and a lot of the young guys that I got to know when Steve Kern trained them at FCW and the bonds there, just tremendous, tremendous time.

But, yeah, like I said, Fandango put a Hall of Famer down and a best fan down.

Such a unique business, isn't it, right, that a guy – it's so – right, so people don't forget, right? They remember names.

Yeah.

Still better than Jinder Mahal winning it in 2017

That's true, yeah.

That is [laughs] yeah, that's true

Talk about someone who earned every single bit of it.

One Jinder Mahal from May to November 2017.

So once again, I'm going to argue this because what did you want Jinder Mahal to do? He didn't wake up one day and go to Vince McMahon and say, "Listen, Vince, I know you've got me losing at the moment, mostly in opening matches, but how about in a couple of weeks we just tell everyone that I am a number one contender and then give me the WWE title?" If you weren't around for this though, that is what Vince McMahon did, and why not put that on Jinder's shoulders? Anybody else would've jumped at the opportunity.

It was just so damn mad though because he was able to get to a number one contender match within [laughs] a couple of weeks.

He beat Randy Orton and he became the WWE Champion.

Now, actually, Mahal went and changed up his presentation, so his entrance with The Singh Brothers was especially awesome.

But quite clearly WWE had not planned this out at all, and because fans were so damn confused why he had done such a 180, well, nobody was ever going to buy into it.

One of the most important things about being WWE Champion is that the crowd has to believe in your matches, and we were still playing catch-up here going, "Wait a minute, Jinder Mahal was essentially a comedy act a few weeks ago and now we've given him the big gold belt." Now, fair play to WWE because they actually allowed Jinder Mahal to have it for 170 days, but you can go watch this right now.

What else have I got? Not much.

But I was super impressed with Jinder Mahal's, his expose on how the WWE contracts work and the buckets and all of that, and just found that to be a masterclass.

And I know that he's done some work with MLP.

I don't know if he crossed paths, but I imagine that he's probably someone that's interesting to talk to, like like who have you talked to up there that's just surprised you with their levels of depth, sincerity, you know, a strange intelligence in an area that you weren't expecting to be strangely intelligent in or, you know, or that really took an interest in you.

I should say right off the bat, I'm a long-running WWE fan.

So it's an honor to speak to Jinder Mahal as well, who is here with us today.

Awesome.

Appreciate it.