Jinder Mahal spoke in an interview before WWE released him about the shot he took from AEW President Tony Khan earlier this year for getting a WWE World Title match against Seth Rollins on an episode of RAW despite not winning a single match in a full calendar year at the time.
Speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Mahal said,
“I was at home, I think it was early in the day. Drew had texted me. I got a bunch of texts in a row and I was like, ‘What? I have to see this.’ I opened Twitter and saw it [laughs]. Thank you, Tony. You made the match with Seth more interesting. People thought I was going to win it just to spite Tony. I was surprised, everyone stuck up for me, it never happened before.”
