Jinder Mahal Reflects On WWE Release & Championship Reign

Jinder Mahal has had a very interesting wrestling career. He made his WWE debut on Smackdown in April 2011 and immediately entered a feud against The Great Khali. The following year, Jinder Mahal became a part of 3MB (the 3 Man Band) alongside Drew McIntyre and Heath Slater. Mahal and McIntyre were released from the company soon after. Mahal returned to WWE in 2016 and rose to the top of the mountain to become WWE Champion about a year later.

RELATED: John Cena Talks Passing The Torch, Leaving WWE Better Than He Found ItCurrently, Mahal is aligned with Veer and Sanga as the faction Indus Sheer. They were drafted to Raw as a collective a few weeks ago.

Jinder Mahal Talks Second Chances, Championship Ambitions

During an interview on After The Bell with Corey Graves, Jinder Mahal reflected on his release from WWE and his triumphant return to the company. Wrestling News Co. has provided the following transcription:

Ten months before I became WWE Champion, I was an independent wrestler. I got released from WWE in 2014. I wasn't even with WWE. I had came back during the brand split. They had reintroduced the separate rosters for Raw And SmackDown, and actually, I had just come back to kind of fill a roster space. I was ready for television. I was a guy that I can throw on and make the other guys look good.But just knowing what I had gone through with being released and having all those regrets and knowing that if I ever had another opportunity, I was gonna knock it out of the ballpark. I was gonna give it my all. I wasn't gonna compromise with myself, with my training, with my discipline, with my self belief, so I just gave it my all and became WWE Champion 10 months later. I don't think that's ever happened before where someone was released and came back and within that short of a timespan, completely changed and reinvented myself. Just the confidence, the swagger, the Singh Brothers, the entire package, the presentation, yeah, I really transformed myself into a champion and that's what you have to do. You have to become the champion before you become the champion.