11 Reasons WWE Battleground 2017 Was Absolutely Terrible

by John Bills

1. Jinder Mahal - Paper Champion

Jinder Mahal
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The Punjabi Prison ended with The Great Khali coming out to cost Randy Orton the match. Whilst it was fun to see Khali for a moment or two, this was another dirty ending to a Jinder Mahal championship defence. WWE asked its audience to take a huge leap of faith to accept Jinder as champion, but is doing everything it can to make him look like a paper champion.

The Jinder/Randy feud needs to end - preferably yesterday. This has been the worst possible feud for Jinder at this point, and it hasn't done Randy any favours either. Two of WWE's least exciting workers have been tasked with carrying SmackDown's main event scene for months now, and they have failed to do so. The WWE Championship may well be at its lowest ebb right now as a result.

The 2016 edition of Battleground was the first pay-per-view of the post-draft era. The show was headlined by the first ever Shield triple threat, and the kicked off a great run of pay-per-views for the SmackDown brand. Battleground 2017 may well go down as the lowest point for the blue show. Something needs to change, and it needs to change quickly.

But hey, Jinder Mahal vs. The Great Khali will be fun, right?

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.