Thread: Was JBL a transitional champion?
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Old 01-31-2020, 07:16 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by Mr. Nerfect View Post
If your definition of "transition champion" is just to get the belt from one person to another, eventually, then every champion is transitional.

I absolutely HATED Jinder Mahal's WWE Title reign, but as much as I hate to say it, and as much as I criticized them at the time, WWE probably knew it wasn't going to launch business in India instantly. They'd done stuff with The Great Khali in the past, and he was a much bigger star. I think it's more about fertilizing the ground there, so there's a long history of WWE being good to India. Maybe TV deals were coming up too, and the stations over there pay a shit-tonne?

Part of me still thinks Vince either lost a bet, it was a joke that got way out of hand, or Vince was just sick of needing to depend on indy-style workers, so he went with a jacked up guy with absolutely no talent.
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