10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 2017
9. WWE Cancels India Date
A comedy of catastrophic errors in 2017 was best summed up by the grand conclusion - Triple H pinning Jinder Mahal on the main event of a half-empty New Delhi house show.
Unlike every single word a WWE Superstar ever says on television, this wasn't in the script.
'The Modern Day Maharaja' has held the title for nearly 200 days in 2017, though hadn't advanced remotely in the role as a performer nor particularly helped WWE crack a mammoth market any more so than they already were.
A painfully dull Summer as Champion was only memorable for its start and end points and a racially insensitive promo against Shinsuke Nakamura, which explains much of what followed when winter came.
By November, the company had given up on things and moved the WWE Championship back on to AJ Styles, and perceptions of Mahal were presumably lower still when a mini-tour that had once looked likely to feature him as the title-sporting centre of attention was now the aforementioned single-night squash against 'The Game'.