History YMMV / JinderMahal

* BaseBreakingCharacter: His completely out of nowhere push after ''[=WrestleMania 33=]'' in 2017 certainly rubbed a lot of fans in different ways. On one hand, detractors cited his perceived lack of in-ring skill, suspicion of steroid use, boring character and his utter void of creative attention beyond jobbing prior to the sudden push. On the other hand, his opponent was Randy Orton, who has his own sizable contingent of anti-fans who accuse him of many of the same things; not to mention Orton was just winding down a pretty one sided feud in which he had totally destroyed and ruined the momentum of popular heel Bray Wyatt, had put on a series of disappointing matches, and rarely if ever lost, leaving many hungry to see someone humiliate him; plus there's fans who think that Mahal does make an effective heel and that he can do well if given the right push. Demonstrated at ''Wrestling/{{Backlash}} 2017'', in his world title match with Orton where half the crowd was clearly behind him and the other half behind Randy. There were actually people cheering when he won, though the camera's quickly cut to those faces who were visibly shocked, presumably to preserve his heel status. Since the initial push however he has fallen much more soundly into TheScrappy territory again with his poor performances, bad booking as a heel (being unable to beat even lower-midcard Faces cleanly) and incredibly dull feud with RandyOrton (himself a base breaker), as well as Jinder himself routinely showing very tired and cliche heel promos and tactics; very ''few'' unironic Jinder fans are to be heard from presently, though whether this might change with time remains to be seen.

** He's also been getting compared to Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield, as JBL was also in a not-quite-enviable position on the card (the APA on its last legs) before getting an out-of-nowhere push to the main event and winning the WWE Championship. However, while JBL's push also hit some snags (he was reportedly the lowest-drawing WWE Champion since [[Wrestling/KevinNash Diesel]], JBL's push is still agreed to have went over ''far'' better than Jinder's, because JBL was so skilled at playing a despicable heel.

* [[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail And You Thought He Would Fail]] : Jinder Mahal being WWE Champion says it all. Though subverted with reports of plummeting ratings and abysmal attendance records; while ratings had been dipping already, Jinder's reign noticeably accelerated the decline.

* CreatorsPet:
** The reveal that Vince [=McMahon=] was personally writing a lot of Mahal's promos and material received unfavorable comparison with Vince doing the same to Wrestling/RomanReigns, making a lot of fans perceive Mahal as being an overpushed pet project of Vince's, once again being forced down the throats of fans.
** This intensified even further when he failed to have a good match with Wrestling/ShinsukeNakamura and yet was given a win in the exact same fashion as nearly every win he has had as champion (i. e. the Singh Brothers interfere, Mahal's opponent dispaches them, Mahal seizes the opportunity to connect his finishing move on his opponent for the win). Earlier in the same week he also ruined Wrestling/BaronCorbin cashing in the Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank briefcase (though Wrestling/JohnCena also played a part in that), which has led to many accusing Jinder's push of doing great damage to other, more worthy talents.

* ReplacementScrappy: Many detractors consider Jinder to be an inferior Wrestling/MuhammadHassan, since, like Hassan, he's being pushed to the moon out of nowhere (Hassan would have won the World Heavyweight Championship if not for the incident that destroyed his career) and his gimmick is basically "[[MistakenForRacist I hate Americans because they're all racist!]]" Time will tell if Jinder can subvert this.
** Due to the out-of-nowhere push from perennial jobber to main event champion, he's also been getting compared to JBL. However, JBL's push went over ''far'' better than Jinder's, because JBL was so skilled at playing a despicable heel.
* TheScrappy / XPacHeat: As many of the entries here make clear, whatever benefit of the doubt the fanbase had given Jinder was long gone before his WWE title run was even half over. Many had begun including Jinder as one of the worst WWE champions of all time even before his reign actually ended.
* TakeThatScrappy: Aside from losing the WWE championship on free TV to fan favourite AJ Styles, weeks beforehand PaulHeyman addressed Jinder's challenge to Brock Lesnar with [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe utter disbelief]] and openly mocked him for even thinking he could stand on even footing to Lesnar. Compare and contrast to Heyman's genuine fear, both for Lesnar's title run and his own personal safety, of SamoaJoe and BraunStrowman, and him singing praises to AJ.

* [[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail And You Thought He Would Fail]] : Jinder Mahal being WWE Champion says it all. Slightly subverted with reports of plummeting ratings and abysmal attendance records; while ratings had been dipping already, Jinder's reign noticeably accelerated the decline.

* TheScrappy/XPacHeat: As many of the entries here make clear, whatever benefit of the doubt the fanbase had given Jinder was long gone before his WWE title run was even half over. Many had begun including Jinder as one of the worst WWE champions of all time even before his reign actually ended.

* [[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail And You Thought He Would Fail]] : Jinder Mahal being WWE Champion says it all. Slightly subverted with reports of plummeting ratings and abysmal attendance records, though Jinder's reign only accelerated the decline, not necessarily caused it.

* [[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail And You Thought He Would Fail]] : Jinder Mahal being WWE Champion says it all. Slightly subverted with reports of plummeting ratings and abysmal attendance records, though that had been a trend prior to his championship and Jinder's reign only accelerated the decline not necessarily caused it.

* [[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail And You Thought He Would Fail]] : Jinder Mahal being WWE Champion says it all. Slightly subverted with reports of plummeting ratings and abysmal attendance records, though that had been a trend prior to his championship.

* TakeThatScrappy: Aside from losing the WWE championship on free TV to fan favourite AJ Styles, weeks beforehand PaulHeyman addressed Jinder's challenge to Brock Lesnar with [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe utter disbelief]] and openly mocked him for even thinking he could stand on even footing to Lesnar. Compare and contrast to Heyman's genuine fear, both for Lesnar's title run and his own personal safety, of SamoaJoe and BraunStrowman.

** This intensified even further when he failed to have a good match with Wrestling/ShinsukeNakamura and ''Wrestling/AJStyles'' (generally considered some of the best wrestlers on the planet at the time) and yet was given a win in the exact same fashion as nearly every win he has had as champion (i. e. the Singh Brothers interfere, Mahal's opponent dispaches them, Mahal seizes the opportunity to connect his finishing move on his opponent for the win). Earlier in the same week he also ruined Wrestling/BaronCorbin cashing in the Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank briefcase (though Wrestling/JohnCena also played a part in that), which has led to many accusing Jinder's push of doing great damage to other, more worthy talents.

* [[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail And You Thought He Would Fail]] : Jinder Mahal being WWE Champion says it all. Slightly subverted with reports of plummeting ratings and abysmal attendance records, still, no one can say they would've expected Jinder to be WWE champion.

* TakeThatScrappy: Aside from losing the WWE championship on free TV to fan favourite AJ Styles, weeks beforehand PaulHeyman addressed Jinder's challenge to Brock Lesnar with [[MyGod, AreYouSerious utter disbelief]] and openly mocked him for even thinking he could stand on even footing to Lesnar.

* TakeThatScrappy: Aside from losing the WWE championship on free TV to fan favourite AJ Styles, weeks beforehand PaulHeyman addressed Jinder's challenge to Brock Lesnar with [[MyGod,AreYouSerious utter disbelief]] and openly mocked him for even thinking he could stand on even footing to Lesnar.

* TakeThatScrappy: Aside from losing the WWE championship on free TV to fan favourite AJ Styles, weeks beforehand PaulHeyman addressed Jinder's challenge to Brock Lesnar with [[MyGodAreYouSerious utter disbelief]] and openly mocked him for even thinking he could stand on even footing to Lesnar.

** Due to the out-of-nowhere push from perennial jobber to main event champion, he's also been getting compared to JBL. However, JBL's push went over ''far'' better than Jinder's, because JBL was so skilled at playing a despicable heel.

* [[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail And You Thought He Would Fail]] : Jinder Mahal being WWE Champion says it all.

[[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail And You Thought He Would Fail]] : Jinder Mahal being WWE Champion says it all.

* ReplacementScrappy: Many detractors consider Jinder to be an inferior Wrestling/MuhammadHassan, since, like Hassan, he's being pushed to the moon out of nowhere (Hassan would have won the World Heavyweight Championship if not for the incident that destroyed his career) and his gimmick is basically "[[MistakenForRacist I hate Americans because they're all racist!]]" Time will tell if Jinder can subvert this.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: His completely out of nowhere push after ''[=WrestleMania 33=]'' in 2017 certainly rubbed a lot of fans in different ways. On one hand, detractors cited his perceived lack of in-ring skill, suspicion of steroid use, boring character and his utter void of creative attention beyond jobbing prior to the sudden push. On the other hand, his opponent was Randy Orton, who has his own sizable contingent of anti-fans who accuse him of many of the same things; not to mention Orton was just winding down a pretty one sided feud in which he had totally destroyed and ruined the momentum of popular heel Bray Wyatt, had put on a series of disappointing matches, and rarely if ever lost, leaving many hungry to see someone humiliate him; plus there's fans who think that Mahal does make an effective heel and that he can do well if given the right push. Demonstrated at ''Wrestling/{{Backlash}} 2017'', in his world title match with Orton where half the crowd was clearly behind him and the other half behind Randy. There were actually people cheering when he won, though the camera's quickly cut to those faces who were visibly shocked, presumably to preserve his heel status. Since the initial push however he has fallen much more soundly into TheScrappy territory again with his poor performances, bad booking as a heel (being unable to beat even lower-midcard Faces cleanly) and incredibly dull feud with RandyOrton (himself a base breaker), as well as Jinder himself routinely showing very tired and cliche heel promos and tactics. Although some still see the fact Jinder has a singles title reign at all is a breath of fresh air given he's on a show with ''Wrestling/AJStyles'' and ''Wrestling/KevinOwens''. Beyond that Jinder fans are sparse to be heard from presently, though whether this might change with time remains to be seen.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: His completely out of nowhere push after ''[=WrestleMania 33=]'' in 2017 certainly rubbed a lot of fans in different ways. On one hand, detractors cited his perceived lack of in-ring skill, suspicion of steroid use, boring character and his utter void of creative attention beyond jobbing prior to the sudden push. On the other hand, his opponent was Randy Orton, who has his own sizable contingent of anti-fans who accuse him of many of the same things; not to mention Orton was just winding down a pretty one sided feud in which he had totally destroyed and ruined the momentum of popular heel Bray Wyatt, had put on a series of disappointing matches, and rarely if ever lost, leaving many hungry to see someone humiliate him; plus there's fans who think that Mahal does make an effective heel and that he can do well if given the right push. Demonstrated at ''Wrestling/{{Backlash}} 2017'', in his world title match with Orton where half the crowd was clearly behind him and the other half behind Randy. There were actually people cheering when he won, though the camera's quickly cut to those faces who were visibly shocked, presumably to preserve his heel status. Since the initial push however he has fallen much more soundly into TheScrappy territory again with his poor performances, bad booking as a heel (being unable to beat even lower-midcard Faces cleanly) and incredibly dull feud with RandyOrton (himself a base breaker), as well as Jinder himself routinely showing very tired and cliche heel promos and tactics; very few unironic Jinder fans are to be heard from presently, though whether this might change with time remains to be seen.

** This intensified even further when he failed to have a good match with Wrestling/ShinsukeNakamura (generally considered one of the best wrestlers on the planet at the time) and yet was given a win in the exact same fashion as nearly every win he has had as champion (i. e. the Singh Brothers interfere, Mahal's opponent dispaches them, Mahal seizes the opportunity to connect his finishing move on his opponent for the win). Earlier in the same week he also ruined Wrestling/BaronCorbin cashing in the Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank briefcase (though Wrestling/JohnCena also played a part in that), which has led to many accusing Jinder's push of doing great damage to other, more worthy talents.

* CreatorsPet: The reveal that Vince [=McMahon=] was personally writing a lot of Mahal's promos and material received unfavorable comparison with Vince doing the same to Wrestling/RomanReigns, making a lot of fans perceive Mahal as being an overpushed pet project of Vince's, once again being forced down the throats of fans.
** This intensified even further when he failed to have a good match with Wrestling/ShinsukeNakamura (generally considered one of the best wrestlers on the planet at the time) and yet was given a win in the exact same fashion as nearly every win he has had as champion. Earlier in the same week he also ruined Wrestling/BaronCorbin cashing in the Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank briefcase (though Wrestling/JohnCena also played a part in that), which has led to many accusing Jinder's push of doing great damage to other, more worthy talents.

** This intensified even further when he failed to have a good match with Wrestling/ShinsukeNakamura (generally considered one of the best wrestlers on the planet at the time) and yet was given a win in the exact same fashion as nearly every win he has had as champion. Earlier in the same week he also ruined Wrestling/BaronCorbin cashing in the MoneyInTheBank briefcase (though Wrestling/JohnCena also played a part in that), which has led to many accusing Jinder's push of doing great damage to other, more worthy talents.

** This intensified even further when he failed to have a good match with ShinsukeNakamura (generally considered one of the best wrestlers on the planet at the time) and yet was given a win in the exact same fashion as nearly every win he has had as champion. Earlier in the same week he also ruined BaronCorbin cashing in the MoneyInTheBank briefcase (though JohnCena also played a part in that), which has led to many accusing Jinder's push of doing great damage to other, more worthy talents.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: His completely out of nowhere push after ''[=WrestleMania 33=]'' in 2017 certainly rubbed a lot of fans in different ways. On one hand, detractors cited his perceived lack of in-ring skill, suspicion of steroid use, boring character and his utter void of creative attention beyond jobbing prior to the sudden push. On the other hand, his opponent was Randy Orton, who has his own sizable contingent of anti-fans who accuse him of many of the same things; not to mention Orton was just winding down a pretty one sided feud in which he had totally destroyed and ruined the momentum of popular heel Bray Wyatt, had put on a series of disappointing matches, and rarely if ever lost, leaving many hungry to see someone humiliate him; plus there's fans who think that Mahal does make an effective heel and that he can do well if given the right push. Demonstrated at ''Wrestling/{{Backlash}} 2017'', in his world title match with Orton where half the crowd was clearly behind him and the other half behind Randy. There were actually people cheering when he won, though the camera's quickly cut to those faces who were visibly shocked, presumably to preserve his heel status.
** Since the initial push however he has fallen much more soundly into TheScrappy territory again with his poor performances, bad booking as a heel (being unable to beat even lower-midcard Faces cleanly) and incredibly dull feud with RandyOrton (himself a base breaker), as well as Jinder himself routinely showing very tired and cliche heel promos and tactics; very few unironic Jinder fans are to be heard from presently, though whether this might change with time remains to be seen.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment / SevenYearRule: When announcing he would be defending his championship against Randy Orton in a Punjabi Prison Match, he referred to The Great Khali as his "personal hero". Older fans will remember his manipulating his then (kayfabe) brother-in-law.
** Then doubled as Khali would return at the Battleground show, helping Jinder defeat Randy Orton. Suffice to say, few in the fanbase were amused...

** Juicy Jinder. [[labelnote:Explanation]]After his return to WWE in 2016, Jinder started looking... a little more vascular than before, with fans attributing this change to his implied use of steroids, even though the Wellness Policy is intact, but Jinder has fallen foul of it before. The fact that he also has gynecomastia, the most obvious side effect of anabolic steroid use, as well as back acne, makes it harder to deny.[[/labelnote]]

* FunnyAneurysmMoment/SevenYearRule: When announcing he would be defending his championship against Randy Orton in a Punjabi Prison Match, he referred to The Great Khali as his "personal hero". Older fans will remember his manipulating his (kayfabe) brother-in-law.