Samir Singh revealed on Instagram that he suffered a torn ACL during the angle on last week’s episode of SmackDown Live. The injury occurred at ringside angle during the Bobby Roode vs. Jinder Mahal US Championship tournament match.

While Sing did not reveal how long he’s expected to be out of action for, it’s believe that it could be six to nine months for the recovery of that injury.

Last week I tore my ACL and it goes without saying that this past week has been very emotional. The more I think about it, the less it makes sense. All I know is that God is the sovereign of my life and that everything that comes to pass is his blessing. I thank you all for the continued love and support. I can’t wait to be back.

A post shared by Samir Singh – WWE Superstar (@harvsihra_wwe) on Jan 23, 2018 at 6:47pm PST

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Pro Wrestling Illustrated has named AJ Styles the “Wrestler of the Year” for the second time in a row. Styles joins Dusty Rhodes, Ric Flair, Steve Austin, John Cena and CM Punk as the only wrestlers to do that in consecutive years.

Styles earned 38% of the vote, ahead of Kazuchika Okada (21%), Kenny Omega (11%), and Cody Rhodes (9%), among others.

The rest of the awards are as followed:

Rookie: Otis Drozovic

Inspirational: Christopher Daniels

Most Improved: Jinder Mahal

Comeback: The Hardys

Woman: Asuka

Feud: Kenny Omega vs. Kazuchika Okada

Hated: Jinder Mahal

Popular: AJ Styles

Match: Kenny Omega vs. Kazuchika Okada (1/4)

Tag Team: Young Bucks

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Bobby Roode defeated Baron Corbin and Jinder Mahal defeated Tye Dillinger to advance in the US Title tournament on this week’s episode of SmackDown Live.

WWE Has announced that Zack Ryder will face Mojo Rawley and Aiden English will face Xavier Woods in the remaining tournament matches. The winner of Ryder vs. Rawley will face Roode and the winner of English vs. Woods will face Mahal.

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Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host Jeff Lane and Glenn Gilbertti (Disco Inferno).

Lane mentions that Triple H defeated Jinder Mahal in India last weekend and became the first opponent to kick out of Mahal’s finisher. Gilbertti points out that a bunch of wrestling fans were livid about this online, when a few weeks ago those same people were complaining about Mahal being the WWE Champion. He adds that Mahal was only elevated to the main event picture within the last year, so perhaps WWE thought he wasn’t ready to pin Triple H yet.

Russo argues that from a business perspective, WWE should have wanted Mahal to look strong which would have captivated his hometown audience and helped their business in India. Instead, they beat Mahal clean. Gilbertti mentions that Triple H is still a bigger star than Mahal, even when they’re in India, and Mahal can’t be having that big of a positive influence on WWE’s business in India because they actually had to cancel one of the live events there.

Lane mentions that a former soap opera writer who worked for WWE for 5 years recently parted ways with the company. The writer went on the record saying that Vince McMahon would get lost when he tried to pitch year-long story arcs to him. McMahon wanted 3-month arcs and nothing longer. Russo says that his experience writing for McMahon was very similar.

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Triple H defeated Jinder Mahal when the company toured India last week. Triple H discussed his victory over Mahal with NBC Sports and indicated that he was more over in the country which is why he went over in the match.

“I often think it’s funny to me that people in America, who have never been to India, put their thoughts and their beliefs onto other people, ‘like clearly that’s the truth.’ (Laughs). It’s totally different there!” Triple H said. “The way they see things and react to things is very different. There are certain guys that once they reach a level there, it’s a whole different ballgame; Undertaker, [John] Cena. It’s just a different level of stardom.

“When we were over there a few months ago having business meetings, to hear the people who are running television studios or Internet companies say to me ‘I watched you when I was a teenager. You were like the biggest guy in the world.’ I met a massive Bollywood star the other day who told me that I was his entire childhood. He got suspended from school for telling someone to ‘suck it.’ At a time in ’96 when there were like three channels there, we were on one of them all of the time.

“It’s not to say Jinder wasn’t ‘over’ there. He was! You have to understand the market. It’s not like everyone just went, ‘Oh my God he’s Indian! He looks like us so we love him.’ They are a savvy market. They understand that he’s [playing] a bad guy [on television]. Even though he got a massive reaction, he still needs to earn their respect. He’s still growing and still new. You know what I mean?”

Triple H also mentioned that Mahal will emerge from the match a bigger star.

“Just even being on this tour will help him. The reaction he got at the beginning of the night was much different than the reaction he got at the end of the night. It just grew. Their appreciation of him grew. It was all handled in the right way and done in the right manner. Over time he’s going to grow and become a cultural icon for them.”

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While John Cena is currently being advertised for the Christmas edition of RAW on December 25th, he’s also being advertised for the December 30th SmackDown Live Event. Cena is scheduled to face AJ Styles in Jinder Mahal in a triple-threat match for the WWE Championship Title.

As previously reported, Cena took time off from WWE television after Survivor Series to work on his non-WWE commitments.

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The Singh Brothers are still actively working alongside Jinder Mahal at WWE Live Events even though they split on WWE television. Mahal and The Singhs are currently set to work together at Saturday’s Live Event in New Delhi.

While reports earlier this week suggest that the alliance is over, it appears that they are only teaming up under a special circumstance only and they probably won’t be getting back together on television.

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There was speculation among several websites (not us) that The Singh Brothers may have been injured recently and that’s the reason why they missed this weekend’s WWE Live Events that they were previously advertised for.

According to The Wrestling Observer, the duo is not injured and the company decided to not have them appear on the events. What’s next for the Singh Brothers remains to be seen. We noted last week that there futures are in question now that they are no longer aligned with Jinder Mahal. There is a chance that they could end up back in NXT to develop new characters.

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PWInsider indicated that The Singh Brothers may be done with WWE following Tuesday’s episode of SmackDown Live.

WWE has apparently wrote them off television after losing a handicap match to AJ Styles and then being attacked by Jinder Mahal on this week’s show. There was talk a few weeks back that they were going to be replaced as Mahal’s seconds by other talents within the company but those talks have quieted down.

The Singhs were originally brought in as part of the Cruiserweight Classic and were briefly part of 205 Live before being shifted into the role of Mahal’s seconds.

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– Sin Cara, Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson are scheduled for the November 25th Starrcade event in Greensboro, NC.

– Jeff Hardy will be performing acoustic musical show after Starrcade at The Blind Tiger in Greensboro, NC. Tickets are available here.

– WWE plans to have back-to-back RAW and SmackDown tapings in the same market and venue next year.

– AJ Styles posted the following in regards to his upcoming WWE Championship Title defense against Jinder Mahal at Clash of Champions:

Being a champion isn’t a one day job. You can’t take shortcuts to be the man.
So you and your mini Maharajas better be ready for #WWEClash…

….for a forearm to the face.

— AJStyles.Org (@AJStylesOrg) November 22, 2017

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