by Jinder Mahal wrestled Randy Orton at WWE Backlash 2017. Randy Orton was WWE Champion back then, Jinder Mahal surprisingly defeated Randy Orton to win WWE Championship.
Jinder Mahal recently was on Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast, where he talked about Randy Orton. Jinder says Randy Orton is one of the greatest wrestlers in WWE.
“All credit to Randy. I would say Randy is in my opinion the greatest. If you look at longevity, look, his ability in the ring, he’s pacing [as a] heel or babyface. Good babyface, even better heel. Amazing heel, an amazing babyface. Randy to me is the best and I really learned a lot. Actually, while I was number one contender we were also in Europe before the Backlash pay-per-view we were in Europe for two weeks and I got to have a triple threat match for the entire two-week tour with AJ and Randy.”
“So like every night I got more and more relaxed in working the main event style. I never worked it, the WWE main event style is different. The pacing, Randy so over, AJ, these guys are so over, you don’t need to rush, they do a big kick out and you can take your time to react. I don’t know, just sometimes when you wrestle other guys lower on the card as I was myself, we got to do so much to like try to get a reaction and we kind of, I don’t know, we plan too much of the match. But like with those guys is completely relaxed. Just like in the moment, listen to the crowd. Okay, here, here, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, and the crowd is really into it. So yeah, there’s definitely a big difference.”
