10 Things We Learned From WWE SmackDown In The UK (May 9)

10. Picture Perfect

The Randy Orton/Jinder Mahal WWE Title programme may be the organisation's most divisive storyline this year, despite 'The Viper's last storyline degenerating into one of the stupidest wastes of television (and WrestleMania) time in company history.

However, Mahal in particular deserves credit for working up to his inexplicable promotion. Performing with competence and confidence befitting an established contender rather than a chancer among champions, Jinder has brought a much-needed fire to his persona and looks physically and mentally bolstered by the accompaniment of his Singh Brothers goon squad.

This week's opening salvo saw the challenger present the professional pictures he had produced after 'absconding' Orton's title belt a week earlier. Naturally as the most dangerous man in the world, Shane McMahon was the only person capable of getting the belt back to Randy, but the photographs were an inspired move to further irritate the 'Apex Predator' ahead of their Backlash pay-per-view clash next Sunday.

The decision to visibly portray Mahal with the strap may ultimately foreshadow the outcome. Usual hubbub suggests that the Jinder push was part of a company strategy to penetrate an Indian market more meaningfully than Impact Wrestling's current flirtation with the nation. The pictures may sadly be all the bluster needed to run endless Orton/Mahal matches without ever having to actually award the 'Maharaja'.