Dhesi would want creative to have something concrete for him if that a route is open.
The 90-day non-compete for Raj Dhesi a.k.a. Jinder Mahal is up. He is officially a free agent and has been making the media rounds and speaking about his run in WWE.
Dave LaGreca, Thunder Rosa and Nic Nemeth welcomed him onto Busted Open and as their conversation moved along, Dhesi expressed that he’s open to the idea of returning to WWE if there’s something concrete for him creatively.
Yeah, definitely. On my end, yeah (the door is open to returning to WWE). Again, creative, if they got something, great, but I don’t wanna go just to sit at home and get a text every week saying, ‘Hey, you’re not needed for TV. Don’t bother flying out’ because that’s the worst feeling. But yeah, definitely. I don’t have any hard feelings and I don’t think that I really did anything to kind of blackball myself or anything. I was very respectful. I always did what was asked of me, I never caused problems or tried my best not to. Whatever was asked of me, for my job that night, I did to the best of my ability (in) my entire career…
Further looking back at his WWE run, he mentioned that he pitched to be number 30 in the 2024 men’s Royal Rumble. That event was after Dhesi challenged Seth Rollins for the World Heavyweight Championship.
Again, after that (match with Seth Rollins on Raw), it was back to nothing. The Royal Rumble was actually one week after that and I wasn’t in the Royal Rumble and you know, that was like a huge red flag to me at that time and just kind of an indication that maybe I wasn’t gonna be used because at that time, that would have been the time to use me. I was actually pitching to go in at number 30. That would have been a great spot. But again, it’s okay, it’s all good. That’s the thing with WWE, you get many opportunities and sometimes, you have missed opportunities but, all in all, it’s all good, I had a great time there… Still have very cool friends that work there, I still support them, I watch the product. Yeah, it’s amazing.
In another media appearance, Dhesi spoke candidly about the racially insensitive promo that he cut on Shinsuke Nakamua in 2017. To read his comments, head over to this link.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Busted Open with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
