7 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (May 24)

7. Jinder Mahal Is WWE Champion

Let's examine Jinder Mahal's record before WWE suddenly decided to pretend he was good enough to orbit the WWE Title picture.

In his last televised WWE match prior to his return last year, he was defeated by comedy little person El Torito in 1:39. Incredibly, he fared even more poorly on the independent circuit. The man lost to Colin Delaney on an Empire State Wrestling (us neither) card weeks after leaving. That's how low his stock was. It was almost - almost - as if even the grim outliers of the wrestling fringe knew he was a bust.

He was even defeated by lowly NXT geopolitical relations stunt Tian Bing over in Japan in 2015. Sadly, that's probably foreshadowing. On this evidence, WWE will probably hand the title to Bing to convince Chinese fans to purchase WrestleMania 34 after 33 was the first allowed for broadcast. On Sunday, after a sudden and incongruous push, he defeated Randy Orton for the WWE Championship at Backlash.

It's a sad state of affairs, it really is. All WWE needs to do to generate a moderate reaction from an undiscerning fanbase is to grab the nearest man of ethnic descent, rush him into the ring and have him blurt out anti-American sentiment for a couple of sentences. Job done. Cynical inroad to the Indian market accomplished.

After the crazy events of Sunday, Jinder Mahal and the Singh Brothers embarked on a Punjabi Celebration on SmakDown. Jinder is a heel because he's foreign. His push isn't just moronic, sudden, undeserved, whatever. It's borderline irresponsible in these times.