10 Superstars WWE Creative Have Completely Abandoned

by Jamie Kennedy

1. Jinder Mahal

Jinder Mahal
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2017 will forever be remembered as the year Jinder Mahal became WWE World Champion. From May-November, Mahal shed his enhancement talent skin and became SmackDown's top heel. In October, he began building towards a potential match with Brock Lesnar at Survivor Series, only for WWE to then drop him like a bad habit.

When AJ Styles beat Mahal to become WWE Champ in Manchester, it wasn't just a special occasion put on for the UK audience. Jinder's loss meant more than that, it represented a loss of faith from upper management in his own title reign. Not only that, it showed that WWE didn't believe he was a big enough name to collide with Lesnar on pay-per-view.

Mahal is no longer WWE Champion and he's not even on the Survivor Series card. For a man who worked his tail off to rise from mediocrity and become a proud titleholder, that must be devastating. All WWE have told fans is that Jinder's 170-day run with the title was insignificant.

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Lifelong wrestling, video game, music and sports obsessive who has been writing about his passions since childhood. Jamie started writing for WhatCulture in 2013, and has contributed thousands of articles and YouTube videos since then. He cut his teeth penning published pieces for top UK and European wrestling read Fighting Spirit Magazine (FSM), and also has extensive experience working within the wrestling biz as a manager and commentator for promotions like ICW on WWE Network and WCPW/Defiant since 2010. Further, Jamie also hosted the old Ministry Of Slam podcast, and has interviewed everyone from Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels to Bret Hart and Trish Stratus.