Jinder Mahals time in WWE was marred by a lot of untimely injuries, especially during his second run. In light of that, Mahal has now revealed how WWE actually botched an injury and made him miss even more time.
While speaking on Inside the Ropes, Jinder Mahal told a crazy story about how he got hurt. He said injuries often seem to happen in threes, like deaths or accidents. First, Mickie James tore her ACL. The next week, Lars Sullivan did the same. Then, the third week, during a live show in Denver, Jinder was wrestling Mustafa Ali in their first singles match.
Before the match, some wrestlers were talking about how Lars had just come back and already got hurt again. Jinder had been in WWE for almost ten years and had never been injured.
Joking around, he said he had tried to get hurt but never could. Then he realized what he said and tried to knock on wood, but the only thing near him was a plastic table. He knocked on it, and that same night, he tore his patella tendon. He said it felt like the universe was teaching him a lesson for being too confident and thinking he couldnt get injured.
Toward the end of his rehab, his knee started filling up with fluid, which made it sore. When he came back to the Performance Center, he wrestled Akira Tozawa and did a promo where he acted like a good guy. Some people online said he was turning face, but he said that wasnt true, the story was that he would think he was a good guy but still be booed.
The next week, his knee was swollen again, so he asked the doctor to drain it. After the doctor did, Jinder stood up and found his knee completely stuck. The doctor figured out that a piece of torn cartilage had been floating inside, and once the fluid was gone, it jammed in the joint. An MRI confirmed the cartilage tear.
Jinder said he had already been out for about nine or ten months, came back for only two weeks, and then got hurt again, which put him out for almost another year.
Jinder Mahals story shows that no matter how experienced or careful an athlete is, injuries can happen at any time and even healing from them can bring new problems. So, fans just feel its a shame WWE ended up botching his injury in such a way.
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