Why Is Jinder Still In The Mid-Card??

[romanstylesiii]

He's been regularly the 5th most focused wrestler on Smackdown and beating guys who are in the lower mid-card.

I guess that is better than RAW when he was literally on the lower card, but is the dude not supposed to be champ???

If they are going to give him the belt, why not treat him as the top guy? 

[A damn road sign]

Because he's a mid-carder.

[abjordans]

Because the belt don't make the man.

[cabbageboy]

The cynic in me thinks that the Jinder push is not a serious attempt to make him a star or consistent main eventer, but is instead just some weird appeal to the Indian market. But when it comes to week to week TV the SD bookers really would rather keep him to a minimum where he can't do much harm and focus on the actual stars.

[A Platypus Rave]

Jul 13, 2017 7:27:40 GMT -5 A damn road sign said:

Because he's a mid-carder.

Still implies he was one to begin with.

He wasn't. Jinder was a jobber beforehand like not even in the Sami lost 3 matches he's a jobber style of jobber.

A legitimately won like 1 match this year before becoming #1 contender jobber.


He's in the midcard now because even they seem to know that putting Jinder in the main event slot of the program would kill the ratings even more as people aren't going to stick around for a Jinder Mahal match.

Why they gave him the World Title and let him retain it if they seem to know this who the f*** knows... but yeah.

[Rican]

The whole thing is just so weird. Like...either go all the way with it or don't bother. As is it's not doing anyone any favors.

[Ricky Nightshade]

Becaus he was a jobber before getting a title shot, a joke as a number one contender and the only real change he's had is that he's gotten a better entrance and better booking.

[trollrogue]

In the midcard Jinder can squash newcomers like Tye Dillinger believably without not looking strong for the Indian viewers.

...that's pretty much it. He is obviously going to have to struggle against the people better/more established on the roster so he really can't do too much against main eventers like Styles or Cena despite having the title everybody wants to challenge for.

He barely even gets Baron Corbin's attention and Corbin is kayfabe supposed to be stalking the Champ for any slight opportunity to cash in, I hope Corbin finds one soon-- or Corbin could save.us and make the Punjabi Prison match a triple-threat for the first time in historical history and win, automatically making his Shinsuke match a title bout that Nakamura wins unexpectedly!!

[Vice honcho room temperature]

Because this was a hotshot in order to gain a bigger foothold in India

[Nosnorb]

Considering that Jinder is well below average in every department of wrestling, being a midcarder is higher than where he should be. Jinder was a career jobber whose role was someone a midcard guy could beat without too much difficulty and a top dude could beat him without breaking sweat.

Neither him or for that matter, Randy Orton should have been anywhere near a WWE Title run in 2017 considering their levels of overness, heat and drawing power, but at least they are not in the main event of Smackdown.

[Bungle]

Absolutely insane booking.

It's almost like they want to phase out the title.

Zero blame on Jinder.

[The Thread Barbi]

He's like Rocky in Rocky 3, the champion with the hand picked opponents to earn easy victory.

[chrom]

Jul 13, 2017 9:42:47 GMT -5 The Thread Barbi said:

He's like Rocky in Rocky 3, the champion with the hand picked opponents to earn easy victory.

With zero of the talent or abilities that Rocky had. More like Union Cane

[SirLucas]

If the Brooklyn Brawler became champion in 90s, it would be equivalent of what WWE is doing now.

[Deleted]

Not really Jinder's fault, it's bad booking. You don't put him with Orton, the guy who was setting the title on fire and by that I mean he wasn't doing shit with it. He's great as a heel but as a babyface he's lost the fire he had, hell, a few months ago. You putting Jinder against him won't help anyone. What you need to do is put Jinder against a Cena who can make him into the competitor he needs to be, put him against an AJ Styles or hell even put him against Owens or Zayn, just not Orton.

But with that said the biggest issue is the lack of a proper build. If we had maybe a 6-12 month build to this then Jinder would be seen as a main eventer. It's this company's booking decisions that have hurt him and many others.

[Nosnorb]

Jul 13, 2017 10:05:32 GMT -5 @kn said:

Not really Jinder's fault, it's bad booking. You don't put him with Orton, the guy who was setting the title on fire and by that I mean he wasn't doing shit with it. He's great as a heel but as a babyface he's lost the fire he had, hell, a few months ago. You putting Jinder against him won't help anyone. What you need to do is put Jinder against a Cena who can make him into the competitor he needs to be, put him against an AJ Styles or hell even put him against Owens or Zayn, just not Orton.

But with that said the biggest issue is the lack of a proper build. If we had maybe a 6-12 month build to this then Jinder would be seen as a main eventer. It's this company's booking decisions that have hurt him and many others.

Sami Zayn couldn't get a decent match out of Jinder, and neither could AJ Styles. The matches against Orton were better in part due to Orton not phoning it in and two hot crowds, but those matches weren't that good either.

If this had been a 6-12 month build, then we would be seeing that Jinder isn't a top level talent and at this stage of his career and how long he has been doing this for, it looks unlikely he can ever become one, or even anywhere near that level.

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Jul 13, 2017 10:19:00 GMT -5 Nosnorb said:

Jul 13, 2017 10:05:32 GMT -5 @kn said:

Not really Jinder's fault, it's bad booking. You don't put him with Orton, the guy who was setting the title on fire and by that I mean he wasn't doing shit with it. He's great as a heel but as a babyface he's lost the fire he had, hell, a few months ago. You putting Jinder against him won't help anyone. What you need to do is put Jinder against a Cena who can make him into the competitor he needs to be, put him against an AJ Styles or hell even put him against Owens or Zayn, just not Orton.

But with that said the biggest issue is the lack of a proper build. If we had maybe a 6-12 month build to this then Jinder would be seen as a main eventer. It's this company's booking decisions that have hurt him and many others.

Sami Zayn couldn't get a decent match out of Jinder, and neither could AJ Styles. The matches against Orton were better in part due to Orton not phoning it in and two hot crowds, but those matches weren't that good either.

If this had been a 6-12 month build, then we would be seeing that Jinder isn't a top level talent and at this stage of his career and how long he has been doing this for, it looks unlikely he can ever become one, or even anywhere near that level.

Bruh, I'm not talking about match quality, I'm talking about feuds and storylines.

[The Thread Barbi]

Jul 13, 2017 9:43:45 GMT -5 chrom said:

Jul 13, 2017 9:42:47 GMT -5 The Thread Barbi said:

He's like Rocky in Rocky 3, the champion with the hand picked opponents to earn easy victory.

With zero of the talent or abilities that Rocky had. More like Union Cane

I don't know about Glenn Jacobs membership in the union but Rocky's life was a one in a million shot. A low card jobber who got plucked out of obscurity for publicity. He also exercised and ate right to win respect and then the title. Kind of like Jinder in a way.

[sabretooth]

I wonder if Smackdown is edited in India so that Jinder's segments are shown last? Didn't they do that with Khali?

[A Platypus Rave]

Jul 13, 2017 13:20:25 GMT -5 sabretooth said:

I wonder if Smackdown is edited in India so that Jinder's segments are shown last? Didn't they do that with Khali?

pretty sure that was only a rumor.