Jinder Mahal recently appeared on Talk Is Jericho hosted by Chris Jericho. Jinder spoke on a wide variety of topics about his life and current run with WWE. We have already covered the original idea for his character that Vince McMahon changed at the last moment.
Jinder also revealed that prior to re-signing with the WWE last year, he almost signed with TNA.
Here is what he said:
“It was kind of weird. Two months of my training and dieting I got a call from TNA and there was a PPV in Orlando that Sunday and I live in Tampa, so they were like, yeah, can you come to us on Sunday we want to talk with you, talk with ‘Big’ John Gaborik. Saturday, the day before, [Mark] Carrano called me; Jinder, we want to sign you back, that was the weirdest thing. I literally sat for two years and nobody cared about me because I didn’t care, all of a sudden, when I started caring, other people started caring”
He continued:
“I told Carrano that I had a meeting on that Sunday so let me just weigh my options first, obviously I knew I wanted to come back to WWE, but I was going to keep my word and go talk to TNA so I went and talked with them, and called Carrano back and said yes, and to send the contract over. It’s possible that they heard I was having a meeting with TNA, it was also around the time the draft was happening so they were signing some people back anyways, timing wise everything worked out. Luckily I was dieting around that time and getting back into shape because I would of looked horrible if I was my original weight when I was out of shape”
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