Former WWE Star Jeet Rama recently spoke with SK Wrestling on why is it that when there is a wrestler of Indian descent they are always portrayed as a heel or a villain and that the fans even insult them and boo them.
Jeet Rama said:
“WWE is a business at the end of the day. I can’t tell them to make business decisions around me.” “They are doing what they think is right from a business perspective. But why is it that you take any Indian WWE wrestler…why are they always made heels? Why are we only presented as villains? Why do they have to behave in such a manner that the audience there insults them and boos them?”
Jeet Rama also talked about how there is definitely something seriously wrong when the live fans from your home country isn't cheering someone like Jinder Mahal, who is a former WWE Champion, and how his soul couldn’t come to peace with the fact that he was making money by misrepresenting his country.
Jeet Rama said:
“My soul couldn’t come to peace with the fact that I was making money by misrepresenting my country.” “When I wrestled at a WWE Live Event a few years ago in Delhi, I saw that the Indian audience was booing Jinder Mahal. Isn’t there something seriously wrong if your home audience isn’t cheering for Jinder Mahal? At some level we as Indians have to compromise when we go to WWE. This is the weakness I want to eliminate.”
You can check out Jeet Rama's comments in the video below. H/T to Wrestling Inc. for transcribing the above quotes.
