HOLY MOTHERFUCKING SHIT! :eek:

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR WWE?

dunno

damnit

Already a better champion tban Rey Mysterio.

Cue TPWW crashing in 3....2....1....

JINDER MANIA HAS BEGUN

Welcome to the era of MAHAL

WE NEED A PUNJABI PRISON rematch

Really hope his sideplates are just a replica of his muscles.

"Hey, push new stars"

"Alright fucker, here ya go"

I bet even Jinder was baffled when they told him he was going over

THAT'S PETE ROSE!!! ...enberg
THAT'S PETE ROSE!!! ...enberg

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There's no doubt in my mind right now that Jinder Mahal, out of all world champions in WWE history, has the worst winning percentage. Of all of them.

According to profightdb, Jinder has won 17.5% of his matches in WWE.

This win by Jinder Mahal now makes him the milestone 50th man to become the WWE World Heavyweight Champion in the title's 54 year history.

Hmmm what about Vince?

coughBray Wyattcough

Vince had significantly fewer matches and was able to pad out his stats with his HBK/God feud, ECW title reign, etc. Plus a few wins during the Austin feud.

:lol: @ Wreddit

http://i.imgur.com/oBXaRwc.png

Definitely getting a Rusev Jinder feud based on their short lived feud on RAW

Maybe Rusev will finally win the gold

Swagger?

Got more wins in his ECW run than Jinder had in basically his whole career.

Rosenberg: "Seeing Jinder makes me want to run to the gym every time I see him."
Dillinger: "That's why I'm wearing a shirt on the show."
Renee Young: "Me too!"

Causing Renee Young to wear a shirt. Jinder Mahal: top heel in the company confirmed.

Give the dude credit, he always had the built in "foreign heel" in him and got the body Vince loves while he was released from WWE and came back and just rolled with it.

He grabbed that brass ring, Byron.

Does JBL shout MAHARAJAH over and over again all the time now?

I'm sorry I was busy running around my house in joy!

Now can they keep this Jinder momentum going? Thats the real question. You can push anyone to the moon but can you make money off it? He needs a loooooong reign if you did this for any reason other than shock value. No Kevin Nash run ins, ya know what I'm sayin'?

Kevin Owens "owning" this Peter Rosenberg guy........

When Jinder gets his iron ab plates I might actually cry

If they give Jinder a few more guys for a stable, he might be able to pull off a JBL-like reign for Smackdown.

Fuck that. Transition champ to Rusev who will be a gold mine. Hopefully he kills Enzo again at the next ppv with both brands.

Gorwing market of 5 billion potential consumers. I dont know why we're asking "what now" for Jinder but not Orton. Is it because he's brown?

Because Orton has been a star for like 10 years.

Nice of Owens to close tonight's Talking Smack show.

Ortons been around sure. That's about it. Jinder has a clear path to a growing market. Orton apexed 10 years ago.

And? You asked why people did not ask what is next. We know he will be fine and in a new storyline soon. Jinder is fresh and new so no one knows what's happening next.

No Drebin clearly made the point that this wasnt inherently profitable when there is an obvious clear path to profit. More so than with it Orton.

So the question is: why are we actually asking the question?

Just got home... was the ppv good... should I watch / skim through it or not rlly worth watching

Sweet @ Jinder... nice

now hypothetically IF Heath Slater becomes Universal Champion (unlikely) and Drew McIntyre becomes NXT champion (plausible) I think Hell will really freeze over

I already answered that. Jinder is fresh. He is wayyyy over where he should be from a fan stand point. No one knows how this will play out.

I think this pic of The Empress of Tomorrow has the potential to become the new version of "Otunga'd" photos.

Lol Destor, net repping me because you don't understand Jinder is new to the main event scene? So Frank and many others don't know how they will keep his reign going.

I can see this happening, and it being a complete accident on the part of WWE not realizing what they would have done here.

Maybe I'm not reading your posts correctly or understanding whether you're agreeing with me or not. What are you saying here? That they have a plan for Jinder because they are trying to tap into the Indian market? I'm not trying to be contrarian, I honestly don't understand.

My face hurts from smiling so hard and saying "holy shit" while running around my apartment.


MAHARAJAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!

Watching replay now to see Shinsuke vs Dolph

any1

I guess I'll skim through it... want to watch the jinder match anyway

Yeah just skim. Harper Vs Rowan is skippable. Skim AJ/Owens. Zayn Vs Corbin was decent. Skip the Welcoming Committee stuff. Watch Dolph Vs Shinsuke

No it's exactly that. The wrestling market in India is growing rapidly. Jinder is doing what is essentially a Hulk Hogan gimmick there and foriegner gimmick here. Its pretty brilliant. Past few years theyve done more dates in that side of globe and theyre def interested in doing more. Even if this is just a hot shot run it establishes Jinder as a key player and should grow the brand in those markets even if you push Jinder down a bit in a month or two. And if the run goes well domestically you can keep him at the top. That is more dependant on how hot the babies your throw at him are though...

I missed the opening match so I am watching it now but overall I enjoyed it, especially Breezango and Jinder Mahal

^^^ I might add Shinsuke vs Dolph to that after this match...

Solid card. Thought only Rowan v harper was bad. 6 woman tag is skippable.

That's the way to go for this show I think

Why was Tye on the pre-show in favor of Luke and Rowan? Why can't I find the preshow on WWE Network?

Styles-Owens and Breezango-Usos were pretty great tonight.

Nakaumra-Ziggy was good overall as well.

Rest were mostly average or skippable but nothing really terrible.

I get the whole market share argument and pushing someone of the market you want to get a foothold in. Wasn't that the whole point of Khali though? If it worked so well he'd still be doing something with WWE. Need a legit worker and if they give Jinder the torch to run with, that's fine, but if you just did it to shock people and have him lose it on SDL or the next ppv then there really wasn't much of a point to it.

If it were up to me ideally yoid pull Jinder from the current tour immediately and send him on a press tour in India. Play the interviews. Play him being a champion to his people. Have him do promos on one being a chapion of his people in the face of American racism. It gets heat from one market and sympathy from another.

Use his lackies to draw him back in and build up the rematch with Orton from there.

Khali played a role in the growing of the India market. But he was limited. Too limited to do much outside of one match/angle and then he was spent. But yeah khali does deserve credit. He helped things along.

Him going under in the near future doesnt matter much imo. Long run...short run...its whatever. Hes established now. Thats what matters. Tonight he was made a star.

Maybe....he needs to have more than one night. It's pretty easy to fall back to jobber status after a world title win. Ask guys like Jack Swagger.

What you said about the press tour is true though. Maybe not stay in character but I like the press tour idea. I don't think wwe has the foresight to do something like that though. They always fail at that kinda stuff it seems.

Jack Swagger was never not a jobber. Title run included. No kne bought in. It was so painfully forced, no one was behind it.

Def doesnt stay in character during the interviews. He neds to shoot promos to send back that are in character. Totally would need to ham it up as straight humble white meat baby. I didnt make that clear admittedly.

was pretty good, solid debut for Shinsuke

The same could happen here. The man makes the title, not the other way around. If the whole idea is to crack the Indian market, they aren't gonna do it with a guy who was champ for a month and is spinning his wheels in the mid card. He needs to be a champ and stay credible for a bit.

Nah. Guys make belts. Belts make guys. It can go either way. I he drops the belt off in the next quarter but follows it up with beating credible guys its just as good tho.

I dig that. All I'm saying is that he needs to be taken seriously now for him to be your spearhead into that market. No more 3MB comedy bits. He's a contender now.

Absolutely

He's going to lose the belt in 2 months to whoever wins MITB the same night. He'll beat Orton in the rematch and then get cashed in on by whoever. Sami Zayn or Rusev probably.

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Damn... Jinder Mahal's body in August 2016 (sry if someone already posted, haven't looked through the thread yet)

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nfdcoKJlSdM/maxresdefault.jpg

Jinder had the I come in peace gimmick back at the RAW I went to in September..

Are you going to Something to Wrestle With Bruce Prichard at Jimmy's Seafood before the PPV?

I wish Noid was still here to do a Noid post about Jinder Mahal.............

I'm up to the women's match now

Freaking hate when Natalya does that long sustained "yell"... hurts my ears

wish noid was here in general...

How about Becky's hair

"Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu?" Fucking terrible.

Losing his voice but its all good

Hail the Maharaja!


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Someone bring Noid back. :-(

I have "no thoughts" on Becky Lynch's hair.

Ya... I think it sounds like she is saying "yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhh"

Watching the WWE title match now... Jinder Mahal freaking great... very intense and has a "great look" imo... really like him and am glad he is the champ instead of boring ass Randy Orton!

When she was a face she would point at a random person in the arena and say yoouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

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:y:

Whoever approved that should be fiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrred.

Whatever, she looks like a mad max villain. It's rad.

WWE Indian commentators on Jinder's win: https://streamable.com/72790

Well this is just what happens when you split the "world title" in two. WWE says "Let's just try this out".

If Mahal ends up being a legendary heel then it's genius and anyone who wins the world title in the future looks better. But considering all the other times they randomly put the world title on a jobber because there's two of them so they can fuck around and risk destroying the credibility of one... I don't have much hope.

I think you mean Straight Fired.

Son of a bitch. Jinder won.

And I had this weird feeling when I was filling out my Tipsters sheet yesterday that something was off.

WE MISS YOU NOID

Where is Noid btw?

Noid took his ball and went home

Noid became enraged the TPWW Universe fell in love with Bliss and left the realm.

He also got mad when he found out people liked the Usos

I could deal with Noid's terrible fantasy booking posts that I would never read when he was a fun loving babyface. However when je turned heel and thought he actually understood wrestling, i could no longer abide by such bollocks.

Noid was good people. Will never forgive you people for chasing him away. Never.

Noid seemingly got mad that people were enjoying the product.

Even before he had his Frank Grimes moment he had expressed possibly going elsewhere to discuss wrestling because he just didn't understand how anybody could enjoy what WWE was putting out.

He was a nice guy. But he was a strong mid carder at best with main event aspirations.