5 Ups And 7 Downs From WWE Payback 2017

4. Jinder Hinders Orton

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The House of Horrors match was bad enough on its own. But when Jinder Mahal is crossing over from one brand to interfere in a match on another brand, you know we're now in the Twilight Zone.

Mahal, the #1 contender for Randy Orton's WWE Championship, showed up at Payback along with allies the Singh brothers (Bollywood Boys) to attack Orton during the arena portion of his House of Horrors match with Bray Wyatt. This interference allowed Wyatt to actually get a win, but it also means that it took four men (and a haunted house) to topple Randall K. Orton.

Sure, you can say that this is logical booking and furthers the feud between Jinder and Orton... but come on. It's Jinder freaking Mahal. Interfering in a PPV match. In 2017.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.