Upon reflection, here are some positive notes about Jinder and his bumpy, sinewy meat body winning the WWE title:
It’s new. God bless them for that. My major complaint over the past … several years of reviewing Raw is that they keep doing the same thing over and over, and nothing’s really surprising or new. Putting the goddamn WWE Championship on goddamn Jinder Mahal is something I would’ve have ever expected them to do, so if you’re going for shock value, consider me (and everyone else) shocked.
It’s better than Randy Orton. At this point, putting the title on a hamster would be better than Randy Orton. After the
WrestleMania bug ring and the
House of Horrors, I would’ve rooted for Tom Phillips to slide into the ring and face-fukk the championship away from Orton. For real, I’d rather see the worst guy try something new with the championship than see a guy we
know can’t do anything entertaining with it failing for the 13th time.
This match was better than those. “Jinder Mahal is better than Bray Wyatt” is a thing I never thought I’d type, but here we are. Although honestly, if this had been the third worst pay-per-view match of the year it would’ve been better than Orton’s previous two.
It sets up a fun environment for Smackdown. Jinder Mahal is the WWE Champion. Every single human being on Smackdown should be trying to get a title shot right now. Like I said before, how great would it be for Sami Zayn to overcome this lousy dude, win the WWE Championship, and get immediately eaten by Baron Corbin?