Rick Bognar has seen a lot in the professional wrestling business. But one thing many people might not know is the fact he was Jinder Mahal’s first pro wrestling coach.
Bognar is known as Rick Titan now and he is still connected to the pro wrestling business. He recently spoke to the Two Man Power Trip about seeing Jinder Mahal for the first time since his physical transformation and really put him over.
“Visual-wise Jinder doesn’t look too far off from The Ultimate Warrior man,” Titan said. “He’s in peak, peak shape. But for a while because of all the drug issues the guys dropping like flies.”
“I could tell you about twenty names of guys that I’ve been on the road with that are all dead now. And all the drug testing and everything WWE is doing. That I think that wave has kinda passed they’re not looking at all the court injunctions, the trouble, and all the people making judgments, ‘oh that guy’s on steroids’ and all that stuff.”
Titan also went on to talk about how the superstars from a few years ago just didn’t compare to The Modern Day Maharaja.
“It’s actually more of that wave has passed. I think now and even ten years ago a lot of these guys even CM Punk going to the ring — no offense or anything, but if people are paying $200 and they’re a guy my size and I’m only about 230-240 right now and I watch a guy like that walk to the ring or most of the other guys at the time who were very good talkers, but I don’t think they were very strong or legit tough, and I paid $200 for a ticket and I would be like ‘oh I could take that guy’ well we’re devaluing that $200. Now we go to guys like Jinder who — holy crap I wouldn’t wanna meet him in a dark alley.”
Quotes thanks to the Two Man Power Trip and WrestlingNews.co for the transcription
