The WWE Champion and The Modern Day Maharaja meet in the ring days before their title match at WWE Clash of Champions.

CINCINNATI – AJ Styles kicked off SmackDown LIVE talking about how he wants to be a fighting WWE Champion and how he has his sights set on Jinder Mahal for their rematch at WWE Clash of Champions this Sunday.

The Phenomenal One was soon interrupted by The Singh Brothers, but instead of introducing The Modern Day Maharaja, Samir & Sunil declared Mahal was on his own at Sunday’s pay-per-view after the former WWE Champion ruthlessly attacked them two weeks earlier.

Styles invited them to the ring to hug it out, and they insisted they were both done with Mahal, but The Phenomenal One was clearly not buying it. And as they continued their verbal joust, Mahal finally made an appearance, just in time to see the WWE Champion turn the table on the obvious trick and unleash an assault on Sunil and Samir before throwing them out of the ring just five days before the highly-anticipated WWE Championship Match at WWE Clash of Champions this Sunday.