Jinder Mahal Denies Reports That Brock Lesnar Refused To Work With Him

Jinder Mahal denies rumors saying Brock Lesnar refused to work with him.

At Survivor Series 2017, Brock Lesnar and Jinder Mahal were scheduled to fight in a Champion vs Champion match. But two weeks before the show, Mahal lost his WWE Championship to AJ Styles on SmackDown.

Speaking on Inside the Ropes, Jinder Mahal talked about reports claiming he lost the title to AJ because Lesnar didn’t want to wrestle him. Mahal said he never heard of anything like that, and he and Lesnar had a good relationship behind the scenes.

“If you go back and look when I dropped that title, there was no mention [that] Brock refused to work with Jinder. It came out years later. I think it was Dave Meltzer who said it. Brock refused to work with Jinder. So man, a thing with a lot of dirt sheets is it’s that writer’s opinion on things, but they don’t say ‘in my opinion’. They just state it like it’s a fact, and people run with it as a fact. At that time, I swear on anything, nobody told me Brock doesn’t want to work with you, etc. In fact, Brock shows me nothing but respect. Even to the very end of the time that I was in WWE, if Brock sees me in the locker room, he shows me the utmost respect. Always handshake, hug. I don’t see him that way with everybody. Me and Brock have a certain respect for each other,” Mahal said.

He then gave his theory on what probably happened.

“What I think happened and I agree with it… It wasn’t like a refusal to work. It was like, ‘Hey this will be a better match. Me and AJ. I’m a heel. He’s a babyface.’ … But somehow it got spun into ‘Brock refused to work with Jinder,’ which, in my opinion, is not the case.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, the wrestler also talked about his WWE Championship victory and how he first found out about it. Fans can read his comments here.

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