The ‘Modern Day Maharaja’ Jinder Mahal beat Shinsuke Nakamura in WWE’s pay-per-view SummerSlam to retain his WWE Championship title WWE executive vice president of talent, live events and creative Paul “Triple H” Levesque believes the Indo-Canadian wrestler from Calgary always had the right tools to make it big in the business Shinsuke Nakamura went in as the crowd favourite. However, Jinder was able to retain his title and put up a spectacular show successfully

Indian-origin wrestler Jinder Mahal beat Shinsuke Nakamura in WWE’s pay-per-view SummerSlam to retain his WWE Championship title.

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The ‘Modern Day Maharaja’ was being called a fluke champion by the WWE fans and was written off as a ‘jobber’, a mid-card wrestler.

However, after beating the ‘King of the Strong Style’, albeit with some help from the Singh Brothers, Mahal proved to everyone that he intends to keep the title for a very long time.

The Hindustan Times reported that WWE executive vice president of talent, live events and creative Paul “Triple H” Levesque believes the Indo-Canadian wrestler from Calgary always had the right tools to make it big in the business.

“We always thought he had the potential to (win the WWE Championship). He was one of the last two guys in the tournament to decide the first ever NXT champion. We know that he has that hunger and ability to do big things,” HT quoted Levesque saying in a media conference call via WrestleZone.

Levesque believed that a change in the environment would push Jinder to do better things. “He came right up to the main roster; things didn’t pan out the way we wanted them to pan out. Part of that’s him, part of that’s us, part of that being not ready for it,” he added.

Jinder had earlier said that WWE releasing him in 2014 was a big step in him choosing the right direction. “Sometimes they gotta leave and go other places and realise the message that they’re hearing is correct,” said Triple H.

Shinsuke Nakamura went in as the crowd favourite. However, Jinder was able to retain his title and put up a spectacular show successfully.