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#4 Jinder Mahal
Now, before your jaws drop and eyebrows raise, let me explain why Mahal is in the top 5 rankings of 2017.
No one really saw it coming when Jinder Mahal, who was thought of as a perennial jobber, became the No. 1 contender for Randy Orton's WWE Championship.
Orton was in the middle of a feud with Bray Wyatt when Mahal became the new challenger to the title. Many of us would've thought that it would be just another squash match where Orton will hit an RKO out of nowhere and defeat Mahal with ease.
But the WWE Universe were shell-shocked when Mahal defeated Orton to win the WWE Championship for the very first time. Most believed that we would never see this happen as the former 3MB member went on to be WWE Champion for six months, until he dropped it to AJ Styles earlier this November.
He is in the best shape of his career and has reinvented himself during his time away from the company. There is no denying that he put in a lot of hard work to get to where he is today and he certainly reaped his benefits.
