Tony Khan would be wise to hire Jinder Mahal once the former WWE Champion is free of his non-compete clause, according to Eric Bischoff.
Mahal was among those released from WWE earlier this month as part of the first wave of talent cuts under the ‘new era’ of the company.
On a recent edition of his “83 Weeks” podcast, Bischoff urged Khan to hire Mahal and capitalize on their ‘feud’ from earlier this year. He said,
“If I was Tony Khan and if Jinder is available… I’d hire him so fast. Going back to the comments that Tony made about Jinder, that started a whole thing. I mean, it sort of [set] the internet on fire for about three days, four days. It was awesome, it was fun to watch. People are nuts, man. People are nuts on Twitter, and I’m here for it all. It’s the most entertaining thing for me to sit down and watch some of these people go crazy.”
He continued, “But I would take advantage of that. Take advantage of the fact, Tony, that you stirred up a bunch of s**t by throwing a grenade, so to speak. It wasn’t a grenade, it was a firecracker. A tiny little firecracker which didn’t even make much noise. But boy, did people react to it. Now you get kind of a built-in — I don’t know, at least an incident to start from. Something, a spark of an idea, to do something fun. Have Jinder come in, Tony, and make you fear for your life. No, seriously! Okay, I’m having a little fun with it with the ‘fear for your life’ s**t. But I’m actually serious about, you know, ‘Why not?’”
After Mahal was booked into a World Heavyweight Championship match earlier this year, Khan fired off a series of tweets in which he criticized the idea of his push.
Mahal recently said he is grateful that Khan’s comments against him went viral as it added intrigue to his match with then-Champion Seth Rollins.
