The Singh Brothers have become a staple of Smackdown Live over the past several months through their alignment with WWE Champion Jinder Mahal. You might not know that they were using a much different gimmick when they first came into WWE.
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They came into WWE as ‘The Bollywood Boyz’ (a babyface gimmick) and competed in the Cruiserweight Classic. After the tournament they appeared on NXT and 205 Live using the Bollywood Boyz gimmick.
The Singh Brothers were recently guests on ‘Talk is Jericho’ where they revealed some advice that Shawn Michaels gave to them. This was when Shawn first began helping at the WWE Performance Center. Here is what Samir Singh said on the podcast about the blunt advice that he gave to them:
“I think a big thing actually, we realized we needed to turn heel” Because the whole Bollywood Boyz thing was so babyface — so 1980’s. Me and Gurv [Sunil] were going back and forth and Shawn Michaels had just started at NXT and watched one of our PC Live matches and he pulled up aside and was like, ‘you guys need to go heel.’ He’s like, ‘if you’re gonna stay a babyface you’re dead in the water.”
Sunil Singh also chimed in:
“He said ‘I see what you guys are trying to do it was like what Marty (Jannetty) and I were doing back in the day. But it worked in the 90’s — it’s not gonna work in today’s wrestling”
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