SMACKDOWN 8/1/2017- Will Shinsuke resist Cena's daring woody scent???

[Juan]

Well here's to hoping they intend to push him and he goes over Orton :y:

[Mr. Nerfect]

Eh, I don't really know where he fits. Honestly, at this point, I'd rather see him and Mahal become a tag team again. At least it gets Mahal out of singles wrestling.

[KIRA]

Orton is coming off a WWE Title program loss. The way the company told the story was so poor that the logical progression of the story should have been Orton getting the belt back too, but they cheated fans out of that. Mahal would constantly look like he wasn't in Orton's league, and needed constant help to escape.

But he's a heel. It can be argued that his body type does not lend itself to being a cheating coward.

I dunno that not winning the belt hurt Orton any and the causal fan that likes him probably won't think anything of it.

Would be nice if Orton ended up costing Mahal the belt as revenge.

[Evil Vito]

The problem isn't that Jinder cheats, heels are generally supposed to cheat. It's the fact that he's cheated in literally his entire run up the card. He went from being a jobber to randomly having the Singhs help him in the #1 contenders match, and he's never shown he can do it on his own.

I look at Evolution-era Triple H. Dude got help in every damn title match during that run. But if they ran an angle where Evolution was banned from ringside - you at least felt like Triple H could hang with whoever he was facing and possibly win. Because he's won on his own before.

If anything it almost added to the heat the announcers tried to put on Triple H. "This bastard is capable of winning on his own but he keeps cheating just to be sure of it!" Jinder on the other hand in no way looked like he could've beaten Orton or any other main eventer solo.