Braun Strowman and Nikki Bella both made big impacts on their debut
#4 Jinder Mahal (2011)
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Nobody would have touted Jinder Mahal as a future WWE champion after his debut
After accompanying The Great Khali to the ring for over a month, Jinder Mahal made his WWE in-ring debut when he defeated Yoshi Tatsu in a relatively short match on SmackDown in June 2011.
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The man we know now as “The Modern Day Maharajah” used a Full Nelson Slam – not too dissimilar to the Khallas he uses now – to pick up the victory, while Great Khali added insult to injury by locking in the Vise Grip on Tatsu after the match.
Danny Hart has been one of the most active writers at Sportskeeda since he began working for the WWE section of the site in October 2017.
Danny currently writes around 100 articles per month about WWE. Before joining Sportskeeda, he worked for seven years as a writer and editor for the football website Goal.com. He also reported live from Premier League stadiums around England.
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