8 Major Problems With Brock Lesnar Vs. Jinder Mahal

5. It Devalues The WWE Championship

Jinder Mahal
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Of course, it is important to acknowledge that the WWE Championship is already at a particularly low ebb. It was immediately devalued when Jinder Mahal, a man who won just five singles matches on RAW or SmackDown in the previous year, defeated Randy Orton for the honour at WWE Backlash 2017. The prestige of the WWE Championship hasn’t been this low since, well, forever.

In normal circumstances, booking a WWE Champion vs. Universal Champion match would up the prestige of both belts. At any point in the last year, Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Orton, Finn Bálor vs. Dean Ambrose, or Kevin Owens vs. AJ Styles would have made excellent champion vs. champion marquee matches. Jinder simply isn’t accepted as a main event performer yet.

It is one thing positioning Jinder against Shinsuke Nakamura, Randy Orton, AJ Styles, or any other SmackDown Live performer, but booking a match with Brock Lesnar only serves to expose the limited star power of the current WWE Champion. It makes the title look and feel like a secondary championship.

Whether this is true or not, it should not be the direction that WWE willingly moves in.

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