Ex-WWE Star Names Match Stipulation That “Sucks”

A former WWE Champion has branded one match stipulation “terrible.”

At Backlash in 2017, Jinder Mahal shocked the world when he defeated Randy Orton to become WWE Champion.

The feud between the pair continued for several months, and the final title match between the pair took place at Battleground inside the Punjabi Prison.

In a new interview with Chris Van Vliet, Mahal looked back on the clash, describing the structure as “terrible.”

“So first off, the Punjabi prison match sucks. It’s terrible. [In what way?] It’s so hard. The inside cage is the blue old-school cage. You can hit it as hard as possible and it won’t even make a noise. It was terrible.

And then just the crowd reaction, they couldn’t really see the people in the arena, there’s two cages. So when we’re on the inside, there’s two cages they couldn’t really see. And it was just painful. Kendo sticks, chair shots, everything.”

Mahal went on to reflect on his Punjabi Prison Match against Orton and the surprise return of The Great Khali.

“But then The Great Khali [appears]. So actually funny story. So I knew Khali was going to come. Singh Bros knew, Randy knew, nobody else knew supposed to be a big secret.

They have the Punjabi Prison tarped off and all the way from the roof. Kick everybody out of the bowl, no security guard, no one’s in there. But they gotta get Khali ringside to rehearse. So they like wheeled him in on basically like a buggy between crash pads, what are you guys doing? They tried their best to hide him, but everybody saw him.

Khali saved my championship. I won, at the end he raised the championship like he won it. So it was good yeah, it was amazing . Actually Khali’s hand is so big like he’s patting me on the back but it feels like someone’s slapping me, he’s like yeah good job, good job, slapping my back. I’m trying to block it with my elbow. Last thing I want right now.”

Jinder Mahal Dismisses Brock Lesnar WWE Rumours

During the same interview, Jinder Mahal hit back at the idea that Brock Lesnar refused to work with him while he was World Champion. Mahal had been due to face Lesnar at Survivor Series 2017, but he lost the WWE Championship to AJ Styles less than two weeks before the event, reportedly at the behest of Lesnar.

Despite the speculation, Mahal said he doesn’t doubt Lesnar asked Vince McMahon to change the match, but it had more to do with them both being heels, rather than Lesnar not wanting to work with him.

H/t to WrestlingNews.Co