10 Candidates For WWE's Bizarre Post-WrestleMania 37 Push

1. Jinder Mahal

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In a sentence your writer never thought he'd pen, it will be interesting to see how WWE handles Jinder Mahal's return.

Do they...do they pretend that he's a massive star making his grand comeback?! He was the reigning WWE Champion four years ago, which is a more prevailing memory than his d*cking about on golf carts for the 24/7 Championship. It helps - massively - that there'll be no fans in attendance in the event of his challenge of Drew McIntyre. They can just play TripleHReturnsAtMSG.wav. All will be fine.

He's good to go - "go" in this context meaning "wrestle the most drab and indistinct style of any modern heavyweight wrestling champion" - since he worked the Superstar Spectacle Network special in January.

Not only is he a, sigh, foreign menace of which Vince remains enamoured, he's also somebody Vince can trust, having worked the main roster sporadically for a decade. Moreover, WWE in recent years has developed this bizarre habit of using any old sh*te as a storyline premise, no matter how insignificant, purely because it actually happened.

Braun Strowman wore a mask in the Wyatt Family for a few months - make a title match four years later!

Drew McIntyre and Dolph Ziggler were aligned for a while there - make a title match two years after we couldn't be arsed to pay off the break-up on pay-per-view at the time!

Drew McIntyre and Jinder Mahal were in a dog sh*t undercard comedy group nine years ago - this makes for a great story somehow, because I'm on Reddit!

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