10 Things You Didn't Know About Jinder Mahal

10. His First Match Was Against The Hart Dynasty

Well, first match that I know of anyway.

It wasn't truly against the Hart Dynasty either, as DH Smith and Tyson Kidd were nowhere to be seen way back in 2004. Smith and Kidd were working under their real names of Harry Smith and TJ Wilson at the time, and the match took place in December 2007.

Stampede Wrestling was the promotion, the famous Canadian company based in Jinder's home town of Calgary. Our dear Mahal was barely 19 at the time, wrestling under the name Tiger Raj Singh.

Seeing as it was two local boys against two 'foreign' heels, the future WWE Tag Champions came out on top, albeit by DQ. Elsewhere on the show, Nattie Neidhart won a match by count out. Talk about a stacked card.

Authored by John Bills

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.

First Posted On: 29th Jul 2016

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