10 WWE champions and their original tag team partners

#8 Jinder Mahal & Jacob Novak

Novak promised fans he would be back when he left in 2011

Years before he was “The Modern Day Maharajah”, Jinder Mahal was simply trying to make a name for himself in FCW.

He was involved in a tag team with Jacob Novak – a two-time contestant on NXT during the programme’s gameshow days – but they unsuccessfully challenged for the FCW Florida Tag Team titles on two occasions.

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While Jinder has gone on to become one of the most unexpected WWE champions of all time, Novak hasn’t wrestled on TV since 2011.

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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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