10 Boring WWE Feuds That Dragged On WAY Too Long

There’s a lot that can be said about Jinder Mahal’s WWE title run in 2017. There’s the painfully anticlimactic ending against AJ Styles and the uncomfortable, borderline racist storyline with Shinsuke Nakamura. However, the beginning of Jinder’s reign was what made SmackDown an absolute slog for the best part of four months.

Jinder won the WWE Championship at Backlash by defeating Randy Orton, a truly shocking upset. The two then consistently feuded over the title from May up until the end of July. As neither man is a work rate performer, it meant that the matches were dull, rest-hold filled affairs. Occasionally there would be interference from a Singh Brother, but even then, the finish became repetitive and mind numbing.

The rivalry came to a head at Battleground, where the competitors were locked inside the Punjabi Prison. And while the match stipulation is one of the worst ever created by WWE, surely it could add some needed flavour to this painful feud?

Sadly not. Despite a great bump from Samir Singh through the announce table, the affair was plodding and very poorly paced. The match itself felt as long as the feud, which isn’t a good sign when it’s the top rivalry on the brand.

Oh, and The Great Khali made his return. For no reason. This looked like it would maybe set Orton up to have one more match against Jinder, but thankfully that never came to fruition.