5 weirdest WWE Championship wins in the 2010s

#2 Jinder Mahal - Backlash (2017)

Out of nowhere

From being a jobber at the start of the year to featuring in the final two of the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania to legitimately winning the WWE Championship.

The first half of 2017 was absolutely wild for Jinder Mahal, and the same can be said for the WWE Universe. A lot of fans felt as if he was destined to win the belt once the match between himself and Randy Orton was actually booked, but few allowed themselves to really believe it until there was no way in which it could be denied.

WWE did a decent enough job of breaking their way into the Indian market and Jinder had a big role to play in that, but when he initially won the belt back at Backlash, nobody knew how to react.

The hope was that he'd go on to do even bigger and better things which, really, didn't pay off, but at least he got a chance to shine for a while.