Former WWE Superstar Raj Dhesi, better known to WWE fans as Jinder Mahal, may know Drew McIntyre better than anybody else in the wrestling industry. Together, the two men formed 3MB for many years, and both of them had won the WWE Championship in their professional lives. Due to his agility, McIntyre can be compared to many former stars. Dhesi, who attended the recent “For The Love of Wrestling” conference, thinks that McIntyre and a former ECW World Heavyweight Champion have a lot in common.
“I was actually a huge ECW fan, Mike Awesome was my guy,” Dhesi stated. “I thought Mike Awesome was way ahead of his time, and I loved him.” He would likely be the biggest wrestling star if he were still alive today, say, starting today. The stature, the appearance, the skill, the high flying coming over the top rope with the splash—he could do it all. In fact, he really does remind me of Drew McIntyre.
Awesome first gained notoriety in the wrestling industry by competing for the FMW promotion in Japan, where he rose to prominence as one of the organization’s most prominent international performers. Awesome was a wonderful fit for ECW because of FMW’s deathmatch style. After making a few appearances for the promotion in the mid-1990s, he was a mainstay from 1998 to 2000, capturing the ECW World Heavyweight Championship during that time. He would later join WWE as part of the Invasion storyline after leaving ECW to join WCW in 2000, but he would never again achieve the same success in Japan and ECW. Tragically, he committed suicide in 2007 at the age of 42.
