10 Times WWE Treated Home Town Talent Like Garbage

10. Jinder Mahal

How quickly things can change.

In October 2017 WWE announced a super-show in New Dehli would be held the following month, and would be headlined by Jinder Mahal defending his WWE championship against Kevin Owens. Come the day of the event, Mahal found himself staring at the lights in a non-title match against Triple H.

Make no mistake - Mahal was never a great champion. He may have had the look, but his workrate fell far below modern standards and his sole promo of note was memorable for all the wrong reasons. However, the speed with which WWE piled dirt in his grave still felt harsh. Within a month of the New Dehli show being announced he was verbally torn apart by Paul Heyman on air, lost his title to AJ Styles and got jobbed out to a part-time superstar in his billed home country.

Mahal's New Dehli burial felt like WWE punishing the young superstar for failing to do justice to the belt, but the company should have been asking themselves why they gave it to him in the first place.