– During a recent interview with PWInsider Elite, former WWE Champion Raj Dhesi (aka Jinder Mahal) spoke about making the most of his opportunity to have a segment with The Rock on WWE Raw Day 1. According to Dhesi, there wasn’t a plan for him to wrestle Seth Rollins for the WWE Championship at the time. Below are some highlights (via WrestlingInc.com):
Raj Dhesi on how he viewed his WWE Raw Day 1 segment with The Rock: “You make the best of what you’re given and that’s exactly how I looked at that segment with The Rock. I wasn’t even actually returning. I was managing Indus Sher on Main Event. At that point, it wasn’t a plan for me to wrestle Seth [Rollins] a few weeks after that in a title match. It was just going to be a one-off promo, which went well and got a lot of love from the internet, Twitter, everywhere, and then [we] just carried that momentum into that championship match.”
On returning to wrestle on the independent scene: “I started from the independents and I’ll probably finish my career, whenever that is, not anytime soon, on the independents.”
Jinder Mahal was released by WWE earlier in April.
