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Originally Posted by Rammsteinmad
I've never understood the logic behind pushing wrestlers from certain ethnic backgrounds to appeal to that audience.
I mean, if you watch WWE, surely you watch it for the sake of guys like John Cena, Roman Reigns, AJ Styles etc... basically, you watch it because it's the WWE, not because of that one dude who's from the same country as you.
And in the case of Jinder Mahal... he's a heel. Are Indian people supposed to "get behind him" or something? He's a bad guy! If Indian people watch WWE, I'm sure they understand how it works. I can understand having someone like Mahal under contract, and perhaps playing up his Nationality when they're overseas, but just seems so illogical to have to do it on home soil to appeal to an audience, who are likely watching regardless of that one dude, anyway.
Ya'mean?
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Doubt Mahal's push is meant to appease to the Indian market but it was the main reason for Great Khali's pushes because at the time the WWE just entered the Indian market and wanted to take advantage of it. End result was that market becoming their biggest in terms of fans.
Then again appeasing to certain ethnic groups is why the WWF got very popular in the pre-Hogan era and why Bruno Sammartino had lengthy championship reigns.
Sports is similar whenever someone big from an ethnic background breaks a barrier or becomes a huge star since it leads to more of those people becoming interested as both fans and potential future players.