In the main event of the Battleground 2017 PPV, Jinder Mahal defeated Randy Orton in a Punjabi Prison Match to retain the WWE Championship.
The Great Khali returned during this match and helped Mahal defeat Orton.
During an interview on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, Mahal revealed that he isn’t a fan of this match and explained why:
“So first off, the Punjabi Prison Match sucks. It’s terrible. It’s so hard. The inside cage is the blue old-school cage. You can hit it as hard as possible and it won’t even make a noise. It was terrible.
And then just the crowd reaction, they couldn’t really see, there’s two cages. So when we’re on the inside, there’s two cages they couldn’t really see. And it was just painful. Kendo sticks, chair shots, everything. But then The Great Khali appears. So actually funny story.
So I knew Khali was going to come. Singh Bros knew, Randy knew, nobody else knew, supposed to be a big secret. They have the Punjabi Prison tarped off and all the way from the roof. Kick everybody out of the bowl, no security guard, no one’s in there. But they gotta get Khali ringside to rehearse.
So they like wheeled him in on basically like a buggy between crash pads, what are you guys doing? They tried their best to hide him, but everybody saw him. Khali saved my championship. I won, at the end he raised the championship like he won it. So it was good yeah, it was amazing.
Actually Khali’s hand is so big like he’s patting me on the back but it feels like someone’s slapping me, he’s like yeah good job, good job, slapping my back. I’m trying to block it with my elbow. Last thing I want right now.”
Below are the complete results from Battleground 2017:
– Kickoff Show: Aiden English defeated Tye Dillinger
– SmackDown Tag Team Championship Match: The New Day (Big E and Xavier Woods) defeated The Usos (Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso) (c) to win the Titles
– Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Baron Corbin by DQ
– Fatal 5-Way Elimination Match to determine the #1 contender for the SmackDown Women’s Championship: Natalya defeated Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch, Tamina, and Lana
– United States Championship Match: Kevin Owens defeated AJ Styles (c) to in the Title
– Flag Match: John Cena defeated Rusev
– Sami Zayn defeated Mike Kanellis
– Punjabi Prison Match for the WWE Championship: Jinder Mahal (c) defeated Randy Orton
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