Ex-WWE Champion Knows Career Won’t End In The Company
A former WWE Champion knows that his wrestling career likely won’t end in the company where he became famous.
Jinder Mahal was the WWE Champion for 169 days after shockingly beating Randy Orton at Backlash 2017.
While Jinder is not a wrestler who was pushed heavily for most of his two WWE runs, he can always brag about being one of the guys to hold the company’s biggest prize.
Mahal had two runs with WWE, which started in 2010 until his 2014 release and then he was brought back in 2016 for another run that lasted eight years until Mahal was released in April 2024.
During an interview with PWInisder Elite about his career, Mahal spoke about his New Year’s Day segment on Raw with WWE legend The Rock.
“You make the best of what you’re given and that’s exactly how I looked at that segment with The Rock. I wasn’t even actually returning. I was managing Indus Sher on ‘Main Event.’ At that point, it wasn’t a plan for me to wrestle Seth [Rollins] a few weeks after that in a title match. It was just going to be a one-off promo, which went well and got a lot of love from the internet, Twitter, everywhere, and then [we] just carried that momentum into that championship match.”
Jinder Mahal Expects To End Wrestling Career Outside Of WWE
Elsewhere in the interview, the 38-year-old Mahal who now wrestles as Raj Dhesi (his real name), spoke about his wrestling future while making it clear that he sees his career ending in places other than WWE.
“I started from the independents and I’ll probably finish my career, whenever that is, not anytime soon, on the independents.”
Mahal is set to compete for Scott D’Amore’s Maple Leaf Pro company this coming weekend.