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Monday, June 19, 2017

Interviews with Jinder/Natalya, and Questions on Jinder's reign, why Ambrose is where he is in WWE, Mania in the UK, and reuniting The Shield

Jinder Mahal gave an interview before MITB, translated into English here:
- I'm glad people like Drew and Jinder are back in WWE. Drew in particular has really stepped it up.

- It's like people are ignoring his heel work against The Great Khali.

- I LOVED 3MB, damn it! Why is everyone so down on them??? They weren't there to be The Shield. They were there to be a fun act.

Natalya also talked before MITB:
- Natalya has done a LOT of press for WWE in her tenure.

- Awesome that former WWE names and indie names were excited for women getting that stage.

- They definitely went pretty hard in the match.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I'm going to mostly hold off on evaluating whether Jinder's top guy material until he's had time to get really comfortable in the role. It took some time for Cena, Orton, Edge, etc. to really show what they were made of at the main event level. I've enjoyed things so far, though, and am glad to see something new at the top of the card.

2. While some of it goes to him being used more as Mick Foley/Mankind than Cactus Jack as far as comedy vs. someone you can take seriously, I definitely see the criticism that he's working like he couldn't care less whether he was WWE Champion at Wrestlemania or working in front of 30 people in a gym. While, say, Seth Rollins has shown he wants to take the ball and run with it, Dean's just kind of content where he is. So, WWE's fine with having him be the Jannetty of The Shield while Seth and Roman move on to bigger things.

Nothing to add to 3.

4. Yeah, I'd test the waters with one of the brand-only PPVs before committing to something as big as Mania (or even Summerslam or Survivor Series). It's a really big endeavor to run a show in a different time zone from most of the base audience.

5. They should only do it if there's a really good reason to do it (i.e. a good story that will put them together). They can do some special matches with them as partners, but actually having The Shield be The Shield should be a really big deal given the path of destruction they went on the first time. The Shield taking down Lesnar would be a good story, but the execution might be tricky if the end sees Roman holding the title at Seth and Dean's expense.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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