Raj Dhesi (Jinder Mahal) is asking critics of his 2017 WWE Championship reign what they’re measuring.
The exchange started with a fan post on social media that said Mahal was never a great champion, called his run at the top of WWE a failure and described him as a “glorified jobber.”
Dhesi replied by asking for the numbers.
“Genuinely curious, what tangible measure are people using to determine that it was a failure? Viewership? Ratings? Revenue? Something else?”
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мycaн J @itsmycahj Nobody will EVER convince me that Jinder Mahal was a great WWE Champion. He literally was only champion to appeal to the Indian marketing, which was a failure. Nobody could take him seriously because the fact that he was a glorified jobber. 6:47 PM · Sep 5, 2026Mahal won the WWE Championship on May 21, 2017, beating Randy Orton at Backlash for the first world title of his WWE career.
He held it until November 7, when AJ Styles took the title from him on SmackDown in Manchester, England. It was the first time the WWE Championship changed hands outside North America.
Orton and Shinsuke Nakamura were Mahal’s main challengers during the reign, before the Styles feud.