7 Worst WWE Title Reigns Of 2017
1. Jinder Mahal - WWE Champion (May 21- November 7)
The Jinder Mahal experiment was a disaster.
When WWE shocked the world by putting their most prestigious championship on a jobber they released in 2014, and re-signed in the same role in July 2016, it was seen as a short-term stunt designed to peak interest in the post-WrestleMania months.
Mahal would go onto hold the WWE title for 170 days, in which SmackDown died a slow death in his hands. His dramatically improved physique could not hide his flaws in the ring. The quality of his title matches were consistently second-rate, and his promos were poor imitations of much better anti-American characters that had come before him.
The biggest crime of the Mahal reign was that WWE sacrificed the most exciting superstar to ever come through NXT - Shinsuke Nakamura - to put this guy over. ‘The Modern Day Maharajah’ beat Nakamura at successive pay-per-views, with the help of the Singh brothers.
Early reports from the recent tour of India suggest that Mahal’s push has made little difference to the company’s position in that market.
So, not only did it contribute to the worst year in the esteemed history of the WWE title, it wasn’t even best for business.