10 Wrestlers Struggling To Prove Their Worth To WWE
2. Jinder Mahal
Jinder Mahal's removal from the radar was inevitable, in retrospect.
Part of wrestling's appeal is scouting the midcard to determine who has the stuff for the elusive main event bracket. It's often a deflating exercise in futility, but nevertheless, getting in on the ground floor can be rewarding, in that it reinforces our own acumen. Moreover, through sheer force of will, we can effect genuine change. Rusev is virtually a face - his Rusev Day schtick is an hilarious running joke - and the prospect of WWE grasping the punchline and formally turning him face yields an interesting resistant reading of the product.
There is no such value in the Jinder Mahal character; we know for near enough a definitive fact that he does not and will not ever justify a main event push. His experimental WWE Title reign was a critical disaster, one which failed to even impact free YouTube viewership in the intended India demographic. Mahal breeds pure anxiety and boredom, was comprehensively defeated by Bobby Roode in the United States Title Tournament final, and symbolises nought but failure in the minds of the audience and management alike.
You could make the argument that he is worthless; he bores in the present, and his future is unsustainable, informed as it is by a shockingly bad past.