Jinder Mahal WWE Wife, Salary, Age, Height & Other Facts
Jinder Mahal is a name to reckon with in today’s elite wrestling annals. The Indian-Canadian wrestler began his professional career with independent wrestling promotions before being signed by WWE in 2010. His career has seen him form scripted alliances with the likes of The Great Khali, and as part of the wrestling triumvirate 3MB.
After a two year hiatus from WWE he came back in better physical and fighting condition and since then he has only gone up against Randy Orton and defeated him in a Backlash to win the WWE Championship. WWE in May 2017. This made him the first Indian wrestler to win the title.
Jinder Mahal WWE Bio (Age)
Mahal was born Yuvraj Singh Dhesi on July 19, 1986, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Born into a family of wrestlers, it’s no surprise that he decided to follow the same path from an early age. Dhesi trained at the Martial Arts Fitness Center in his hometown of Calgary, under the tutelage of Ric Bognar, Allen Coage and Gery Morrow. Subsequently, he joined the Prairie Wrestling Alliance (PWA) where he made his own PWA Championship from 2008 to January 2010.
In early 2010, the Canadian wrestler signed his first WWE contract with their developmental wrestling promotion, Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW). With FCW, he performed under the nickname Jinder Mahal.
After FCW and its replacement NXT disbanded, Mahal competed in the first edition of the promotion’s Developmental Championship match where he lost to Seth Rollins. Continuing, Jinder Mahal formed a three-man wrestling tag team with WWE stars Drew McIntyre and Heath Slater. The band went on to win the likes of Team Co-Bro (Santino Marella and Zack Ryder) in the Survivor Series before the show and on several other occasions.
On April 6, 2013, Jinder participated in Andre the Giant’s battle royal as the 27th entrant. He was eliminated by Mark Henry. On June 12, 2014, the wrestler’s WWE contract was terminated.
He continued to fight for independence promoting the Reality of Struggle (ROW) struggle. Mahal appeared in their events such as IPPV and ROW Summer of Championships 2014. He also appeared in Indo-Puerto Rican promotion, World Wrestling Council, Japanese indie promotion – Inoki Genome Federation (IGF) and was the second runner-up in the Qatar Pro Wrestling Souq Waqif Championship tournament in April 2015.
Jinder Mahal returned to WWE on July 27, 2016 and a few days later fought former 3MB member Heath Slater in a scripted match which saw him defeat Slater to earn a new WWE contract.
Following his elimination by Mojo Rawley from the 2017 Edition of Andre the Giant’s Battle Royale, he appeared on SmackDown Live after being drafted into the Superstar Shake-Up. Here he would lose to Rawley again before finally defeating him on April 8 in a six-pack challenge with fellow stars like Dolph Zigler and Sami Zayn.
Mahal then began to interfere in Randy Ortonse’s beating with the help of the Singh brothers. Once he attacked Orton and got away with his WWE World Championship belt. He was finally forced to surrender it by Shane McMahon on May 2, 2017. Eventually he won Randy Orton fair and square in a six man tag team match a week later. He would defeat Randy again later that month in a Backlash event to take the WWE Championship from him, becoming the 50th recognized winner of the title and the first of Indian descent.
Jinder went on to successfully defend his title twice against Orton, first Money in the Bank match and second in a Punjabi jail match which he won with a little help from The Great Khali. The Indian warrior went on to win title defense matches against Baron Corbin and Shinsuke Nakamura. He would eventually lose it to AJ Styles on November 7, 2017.
Beginning in early 2018, Jinder began a scripted feud with Randy Orton and United States Champion Bobby Roode.
Jinder Mahal’s wife
The wrestler’s career has been closely watched by his fans in India, Canada and across the WWE empire. However, nothing has been heard about the status of his relationship; if he has a wife or a girlfriend. Either the fighter hasn’t gotten there yet, or he’s really good at keeping his personal life private.
His salary and net worth
Since 2018, Jinder Mahal receives an annual salary of $900,000. As different figures have been quoted as the value of the man’s wealth, it is safe to believe that the exact extent of his wealth is not known.
Height and other facts
1. Jinder stands at an intimidating height of 6 feet 6 inches (1.98m) and weighs around 235 pounds (108 kg).
2. Jinder is the nephew of WWF (now WWE) and Stamped Wrestling great, Gama Singh. Mahal fought alongside his cousin, Gama Singh’s son, Gama Singh Jr., on several occasions in independent wrestling promotions.
3. During his time away from WWE, Jinder revealed that he had hit rock bottom. As part of his process to resurrect his career, the wrestler quit drinking and started eating healthier.
4. Jinder “Dhesi” Mahal is a polyglot. He is fluent in Punjabi, Hindi and English.
5. The wrestler appeared as a playable character in WWE video games WWE ’13, WWE 2K14, and WWE 2K18.
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