5 New Booking Directions For Former WWE Champion Jinder Mahal

Jinder Mahal's promos can be a fun - certainly compared to many of the other wrestlers with whom he sometimes shares a stage, anyway (Baron Corbin and Randy Orton come to mind) - but it is nevertheless fair to say that when you've seen one, you've seem them all.

The creative team's apparent insistence on having the Modern Day Maharaja go to the ring every week and berate the crowd for disrespecting his ancestral home - the go-to approach of pretty much any foreign heel for the last 25 years - isn't doing him any favours.

Fans seem less insulted than they do irritated and, quite frankly, bored, a feeling that must be pretty familiar to Jinder himself, who hasn't been given any real new material since his ascent to the main event more than six months ago.

Put simply, he desperately needs to change his tack, to start talking about something else. His recent WWE Title loss, if nothing else, ought to provide that opportunity; he now has cause to prove himself again, instead of just bloviating about how great he already is.