Triple H on the rise of Jinder Mahal and Drew Mcyintyre

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“I don’t know (Jinder) was as fully ready for the experience (on the main roster) as I would have liked him to be,” Paul “Triple H” Levesque, WWE’s executive vice president of talent, live events and creative, told For The Win. “Drew and Jinder are in some ways similar — two guys who were very young and very green, but I liked them a lot when they were here.

“Jinder is a guy who has always worked extremely hard. He trains hard; he’s very intense about what he wants with his career; he’s very thoughtful. That’s the same with Drew. That opportunity came for them when you’re too young and not ready for it and a little immature to it. (When they left), I had a conversation where I told them, ‘We’re not going to be able to do more with you here. Go other places, learn more in your career, mature and think about the business in a different way.’ Sometimes you get reliant on other people telling you what to do instead of going out there and figuring it for yourself, which is what you have to do.

“To Jinder’s credit and to Drew’s credit, they left, they went and figured it for themselves, they improved. They’re both men now as opposed to kids trying to make it in the business. They see their careers differently and what they want and are still extremely hard workers and great people. Now hopefully they are in a better position to succeed.”

“From the second he’s been back it’s been, ‘What else can I do to make this work? What else can I do to improve? What else can I do to get to the next level?’” Levesque said. “It takes time. You bring people back, you let them get their feet wet a bit, you make sure they’ve matured in the way you want them to and move from there. I think fans or people who watch we do, they think it’s a matter of, ‘This guy is there so why don’t they do something with him?’ It’s a more complex process than that and a lot goes into it.

“But I’m happy for a guy like him — whether it was because of him or whatever reason it didn’t work out on the first pass through — to be able to come back and do it again.”

WWE's Jinder Mahal took unlikely road from release to No. 1 contender
 

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Facts, his first match back on NXT was more entertaining than his first entire run with the 'E.

Exactly. Plus, his first go around wasn't actually Chosen One Drew McIntyre, it was some time in 2005 when he was wearing a kilt. Either way, Drew was terribly boring and never showed anything personality wise til he was in 3MB.
 
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