The #1 contender for the WWE Championship Sunday at Backlash, Jinder Mahal, was a recent guest on Chris Jericho’s “Talk Is Jericho” podcast and during the interview, Jinder stated that about an hour before his six-pack challenge match to become the #1 contender, Vince McMahon re-wrote the post-match promo in a entirely different way from how Jinder wanted it.
Here are the highlights:
“So when I finished calling the match, one of the writers was like ‘hey Vince changed your promo’ and I was like ‘okay, bring it to me’ so they brought it to me and I had read the America comment and all that and I was like ‘ugh I like the old promo better.’ Like it was something like, ‘I tried being peaceful but nobody was listening but now I have all you guys’ attention, I just beat five of SmackDown’s very best and I did it all alone.’ Something like that, it was just a regular heel promo but the new one was like: You Americans, this and that, I was like ugh I don’t like it, but Vince wrote it, it’s okay.”
“But I did it and the reaction that I got I was like ‘ah man, Vince is a genius.’ He knows exactly what draws the most heat. It’s weird, he knows what’s going to draw the most heat, I didn’t see it at first but as soon as I heard the reaction… actually when I came back to I sat with Vince and he was like, because we went over time already and he was like, ‘forget about the time, let them boo even more before you start talking’ so I was like, okay.”
