WWE Champion Jinder Mahal recently spoke with The Times of India about his WWE career. Here are the highlights.
On beating Randy Orton for the WWE Championship:
“It feels great. Randy Orton is one of the greatest WWE superstars of all time, 13-time WWE champion and to knock off somebody like him, the ‘Apex Predator’ is a great feeling; being a WWE champion and to be representing India is tremendous. Hopefully this will be the first of many WWE title reigns to come.”
On if he expected his meteoric rise after returning to WWE in 2016:
“Yes, it has been less than one year and honestly during my first run with WWE I will be first to admit that I didn’t give my 100 percent. I got side tracked, I was too young. But I learned my lesson and said to myself that if I get another chance with WWE I won’t have any regrets and I will give my 110 percent. And when you give something your 110 percent, it gives you back 110 percent and that exactly what happened. I gave my all to WWE trying to be the best superstar in the roster, and they rewarded me with the opportunity to become the WWE champion.”
