5 best things happening at Impact Wrestling right now

#3 The Jinder Mahal/Mahabali Shera contrast

Mahabali Shera (Left) is booked well by Impact as opposed to WWE going crazy by pushing Jinder Mahal (Right) to the moon

Arguably the most highly-criticised storyline in all of professional wrestling for 2017 will be WWE’s shocking decision to book Jinder Mahal for a considerably lengthy reign with the company’s most prestigious title -- the WWE Championship.

Although the WWE hoped to break into the Indian market with said booking, the promotion’s standing in India remains the same as it was before the reign of "The Modern Day Maharajah". In other words, WWE failed to attain its planned financial growth objectives in the Indian market, with Mahal as champion.

On the other hand, a couple of Indian stars as regulars in the Impact Zone -- Mahabali Shera a young, blue-blooded prospect who legitimately hails from India, and Sonjay Dutt, who’s as Indian as Mahal… or rather should I say Indo-Canadian.

Regardless, Impact Wrestling did in fact tour India, putting the X Division Championship on Dutt. However, the promotion to date respects its fans and refrains from putting its most prestigious belt -- the GFW Global Championship -- on a relatively unpopular foreigner rather than its more ‘over’ stars.

In simple words, as of today, Impact management is impressively slick in its booking of foreign talent, instead of going overboard and causing all-out mayhem among the fans. Speaking of good booking…