10 Ways Wrestling Is Ruining WWE

6. What's The Difference?

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Jinder Mahal need only watch what's happened on Monday Night Raw in recent weeks to see exactly why his WWE Title run has sunk so quickly.

If Braun Strowman isn't tipping something massive over, he's throwing someone massive around instead. He's a giant, a 'Mountain Of A Man', it's what's required of him.

Every time Mahal grabs a hold in yet another dismally dull pay-per-view main event, he ought to peer at his own throbbing bicep and remember one of the big reasons he found himself in the spot in the first place. He's absolutely b*stard massive now, and performing as if he's still padding out a six-man 3MB contest is simply unacceptable.

In November 1996, half the wrestling audience recoiled in horror as Sycho Sid became WWE Champion with a victory over Shawn Michaels. But nobody inside Madison Square Garden had a problem with it. Splitting at the sides with physical charisma and an astonishingly narrow moveset to match, Sid walked, talked and acted like a fella that got through most of life just being him.

Mahal was getting nowhere being a dull half decent wrestler, and deserves credit for dedicating himself physically and mentally to such a degree that he was considered for the role he's now in. So act like it. Work like it.

There are plenty (too many) techincal wizards flying around as it is, it's okay for the WWE Champion to just be a big, bad b*stard. Somebody should be.

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