 What's good Josh your boy Ross back again with another video So we're gonna check out how Adam would book Kofi mania now I know you guys have been requesting for a while now since I started doing reactions to parts fun known To check out his how he would have booked different wrestlers series I have checked out some of His videos pertaining to how he will book certain characters and wrestlers in the past Just off camera. This will be my first time doing it on camera for you guys because usually these videos are kind of long So we're gonna check this out, man Appreciate all the love and support you guys have been just showing So much love and support on the channel man. We're almost at well We'll get to 70 K, you know fairly soon, you know saying we're on that road on that grind to 70 K I'll probably break this video up into two parts like I said because it is kind of long So I'll do part one for like maybe the first half and then part two for the second half So definitely if you guys want me to continue the series, let me know I definitely will and Let's get right into this bad boy, man. I think this is gonna be a good one I want to see how he would have did Kobe mania. I'm sure he would have booked way better Way better in into how it all culminated with Kofi being destroyed by Brock Lesnar in like 15 seconds or some crazy stuff day in all respects But one don't you tell me not to be sour. I was born sour Then I became a wrestling fan. It got worse since then Kofi mania was one of those flukes of wrestling the kind of Accidental lightning and a bottle events that reminds you that a wrestling is a living Breathing product that still has the capacity to evolve in surprising and emotionally resonant ways and be WWE really doesn't like it when that happens WWE's like a parent who books a really nice holiday for themselves But then their kid brings an adorable puppy home and then suddenly they have to make all these new plans on the fly And so the parents just try to subtly and quietly Drown the puppy and then a kid starts crying so they hang a towel puppy off. I said, okay, there you go play with it We do have to catch that plane though. Hey look over there. Do we just whine? Why keep looking why what you don't want since I understand Ryanair doesn't do refunds But also Kofi Kingston first debuted in WWE in 2008 on ECW as a man committed to Jamaica's crazy and wouldn't let the fact that he was African rather than Jamaican stop him from doing that now to be fair to the Big Dub and spoilers. I won't be fair to the Big Dub a lot in this video That was actually the gimmick that Kofi had on the independent circuit. He was Being Jamaican was his idea before joining the company So 2019 got hit on the head probably and became from Ghana It's always happening and was promoted to an upper mid card fighting for raw on bragging rights eating the pin Sure, but then getting involved in the main event of John Cena versus Randy Orton, which translated into a feud between the Viper and Kofi which was a big deal Kofi was feuding with a former WWE champion having big hero segments like that huge boom drop from the railing in November and then the push ended in a way that could best be described as Stupid in a triple threat That's politicking at his furnace right there if you know the situation with what happened with Kofi Kingston's deep bush Politicking at his furnace Rainy Orton at his finest between John Cena around your and Kofi Kingston again Look at him in the mix with those two Kofi botched the finish of the match Yeah, blew his top and so the story goes the real life heat cost Kingston a penciled money in the bank Victory that year and over the next decade Kofi became an entrenched I didn't know he was gonna be money in the bank winner potentially that year. Oh Man, because people were starting to really get behind Kofi. I remember this. Oh Man damn that sucks, bro, but it came full circle in the end So mid card a charismatic mid card are absolutely but a mid card at seemingly for life He became part of the new day in 2015 They got over like crazy as obnoxious heels before Kofi settled into a reliably lucrative comedy act with easy Uttley convincing friendship chemistry with Big E Langston now called Big E and Xavier Woods now called King Woods, which is lovely They could pull match of the night tag matches out of their arse with minimal prep new day versus the Usos was the best feud of 2017 and people didn't expect more from Kofi and that Was it was fine. It was fine a position in the company that worked that no one really questioned until February 2019 and the lightning and the bottle elimination. This is why I love Like booking like this like sometimes on the fly booking. You got to go with what's hot I wish WWE would do this more going with what's hot and Kofi was at the right place at the right time and he was over He was the most overhead ever been since feuding with Randy Orton all those many years ago He was over people wanted to see him when be the guy You know I'm saying and it is just one of those things in wrestling when when when the crowd sees it You got a hop on it. It's always best to hop on it in the wait Later when it the hype is already died down It's in chamber was fast approaching featuring a chamber match for Daniel Bryant. Sorry, the new Daniel Bryan's WWE Championship in that match Samoa Joe Randy Orton Jeff Hardy AJ Styles the new Daniel Bryan and Mustafa Ali on the February 12th episode of Smackdown a gauntlet match was to be held to determine Who would enter the elimination chamber last with one? Issue was that the Ali suffered a bad Concussion at a house show in Indiana and was pulled from Smackdown and Elimination chamber entirely it was announced he'd be replaced by a member of the new day and when that was first announced be honest now No one cared then the gauntlet match happened Kofi wrestled Daniel Bryan with time to spare Which by the way is a really good way to make someone look good He held his own against D. Bright wrestled a style. We hadn't seen from him in quite a while for holy Pinning the WWE Champion Absolutely huge. He went on to wrestle for ages after that pinning Jeff Hardy Samoa Joe AJ Styles with commentary asking is this the best Kofi Kingston office I get some people saying all pinning a champion shouldn't happen. I understand. I get that I totally totally totally get that the champion should not be losing unless he's about to drop the title You know, so I get it but at the same time It did more for Kofi in the long run because people really started to buy in Whoa, where's where's this Kofi been? You know saying we've never seen this type of Kofi Kingston before You know saying it's career that we are seeing the best bit of that match AJ Styles telling an exhausted Kofi to just stop. It's all right. It's over and Kofi shoving AJ away saying no, I've waited too long And everyone at home realizing That's right He's right the other one night Kofi survival allowed WWE to tell an organic story one steeped an actual Tangible history where the pieces just fell into their lap a story that shifted the audience's perspective of someone who'd been a Carder for a full decade. It was an exhilarating moment again a moment of living adapting Wrestling and the audience thought you know what? We're not gonna let this one go Kofi mania built steam with perfect Unlocked booking at the elimination chamber pay-per-view before falling off the rails a little bit Yeah on the road to WrestleMania itself. It was mostly fine It wasn't exactly Daniel Bryan's run to the top in 2014 with the plans literally changed at the last possible moment Like even before fast lane Kofi mania was the plan going into WrestleMania 35 It's just that the way they went about it was a bit Weird like Vince didn't like Kofi Why don't you like Kofi Vince Vince said? And Honestly the lack of cogent reasoning behind it's repeatedly stripping Kofi of opportunities It just made the whole thing look like Vince was an old Karen shouting at an African man in the street whilst also reassuring everyone though. Oh, I'm not racist Yeah, they they they were going with that angle kind of Daniel brist that Daniel brist Daniel Bryan asked But it just it didn't make sense, you know, it was like we get it You're you're trying to put Kofi down and we're gonna want to root for him to overcome the odds You just gotta make it make sense put some a little bit more thought behind your process of why you don't want him to be The guy the main event one at WrestleMania. Why what's the reason I've got one black friend And his name is Dwayne the Rock Johnson However, you look at it not explaining why the villain is doing things beyond sheer villainy It's not great a few months and many gauntlet match his later Kofi got his Daniel Bryan branded WrestleMania moment against quite appropriately Daniel Bryan himself wrestling the new Daniel Bryan with time to spare Which by the way is a really good way to have a great WrestleMania match Kofi Pendum was crowned WWE champion, and it was genuinely Unutterably lovely and then Yeah, just yeah, yeah, like Kofi held the title the WWE title I'll remind you for 180 days and it's mostly just meh That's the sad thing about that title reign. It should have been more than just meh It Booking you can get to the point where everything goes right now Not that you got that person to that that pinnacle that peak you got to make sure however you book them make sense One eight zero and the number of pay-per-views that he may have entered his champion Well, it was one of those three numbers And it wasn't the eight Wasn't the one Kofi Kingston WWE champion close the show on pay-per-view Zero times Like not once be beat KO at money in the bank didn't main event then because of Saudi ethics KO was shoved out of the way and downgraded the Dolph Ziggler at super showdown and then again Stomping ground like Dolph Ziggler Dolph Ziggler, I like Dolph Ziggler. I'm not one of those people that hates Dolph like he's he's good But he's also like the angel of death for new exciting stars, isn't he? Nakamura at extreme rules Kofi retained against Samoa Joe Again fair enough, but didn't main event It was pretty good And then they finally moved on to a feud with a bit of weight and reason for being behind it ten years That was the feud I was looking forward to the most because of the realism the story behind it What really happened? He's don't Randy Orton, you know, it's kind of one of the main reasons why Things didn't go the way they should have happened many years ago Of course, yeah, Kofi botched the ending to you know a match But at the same time Taking really kind of ruined Kofi's momentum. So I'm thinking if they're gonna do this do this, right? I was all for it push was derailed at the hands of the Viper Kofi and Randy Orton fought at SummerSlam and the match Oh, the match ended because Randy Looked at Kofi's kids and Kofi went into a pancake panic and they fought Double count out and it was the worst thing fun fact at SummerSlam the year before the WWE Championship match also Didn't main event had a deeply personal feud end with a rubbish non finish when the champion got a rage on when his family were Mentioned and kicked too much ass and everyone hated that as well. It's just the same Mistakes over and over again. What's the point of being alive a clash of champions Kofi beat Randy Orton in a slow match By which point no one really cared because the SummerSlam thing was so shit and then on the October 4th episode Smackdown the debut of Smackdown on Fox to pop the network execs and set up a Saudi Arabia blood money past its prime UFC feud which would result in one Single terrible match Brock Lesnar defeated Kofi Kingston in eight seconds to win the WWE Championship ending Kingston's 180-day reign in a single move a single move And I understand why they did it I know they wanted to do a big thing for Smackdown's big day They were using the title change to promote for the future and I've been pretty public about the fact that I Do quite like the presentation of Brock Lesnar as this unassailable evil twat with a belt, but It was how they did it. Yeah, it's just so insulting. Yes eight seconds one move That sucks. But what sucks more was literally the next week on Smackdown seven days later Kofi Immediately slid down the car. Yeah, he that was my thing. I Will never understand how a person loses a goddamn match, right? Where they lost the title they lost the championship, they've been work look working so hard to get for almost 10 years They lost it in eight seconds. They come back out the next week like nothing ever happened What? What? Okay appearing in a segment with New Day holding pancakes and Smiling promoting Susan G. Coman having a Meaningless six-man tag with the New Day versus the OC and at no point literally no point Kofi car promo Yeah, he did he car promo on that Smackdown at no point did Kofi mention the fact that he was WWE champion Seven days earlier nor did he even slightly express an interest in getting the championship the high point of an 11 year career He's waited too long back There was a brief reference to it at the Royal Rumble when he turned up to a big bloody Lest we forget to challenge Brock in the rumble match for being soundly defeated yet again It was it's maddening Genuinely Jinder Mahal got more aftercare when his WWE Championship reign ended and that was something that What I and some other people if that's something we actually want to forget not everyone though Because some of you are Wankers, but no His character suffered overnight amnesia and his aspirations were never mentioned again after Suffering with the puppy that their kid brought home for almost a full calendar year WWE the parents finally managed to put a bullet in the puppy's head and when their kid got upset about it They were like I mean You're lucky you even had a puppy at all. That's exactly what happened. You never had a puppy now How about Kane Velasquez? Should we go on holiday with him? It'll be sure Bollocks Bollocks to it all Let me have a go. All right, man. Let's see what you can come up with Adam I know it's way much better. Let's not look at things with rose-tinted glasses. Kofi's WWE Championship reign Wasn't very good. Some of that is down to the fact that like AJ Styles long run with the WWE Championship the year before And to some extent see and punks 434 day title reign before that during his tenure the WWE title was treated as an upper mid-card belt a Combination of lesser opponents in some cases. So I do like you dull WWE non-finishes to sell the next pay-per-view booking but also in the ring Kofi wasn't that dynamic a champion. Sorry Sorry He it wasn't very good for a combination of reasons see after the Daniel Bryan match at Mania the matches didn't reach the same Quality Kofi's great. He really is but the chase was over the magical moment had been achieved and without that contentious relationship between WWE and its fans without the fans feeling like WWE was denying them something that they'd always wanted Which is when the fans are most vocal in this era anyway the enthusiasm for Kofi Kingston WWE Champion just gradually ebbed away I Understand that but that also shouldn't be treated like an inevitability because Kofi is great for one and Second it doesn't excuse the fact that Kofi got no follow-up. Nope. He didn't you've made a new WWE champion He was champion for 180 days and even without the racial optics Which a lot of people will reject of the whitest most airy and man you can find reclaiming the bell on Fox and the black guy Just immediately going back to knowing his place with a smile even without that lens It's just objectively Storytelling WWE you're asking us to watch your show Every single week based on the consequences of people's actions and how the characters you're presenting to us are going to react To their circumstances no matter how you look at it This kind of booking actively hurts the audiences desire to tune and see where their favorite characters are up to because their favorite Characters don't act like people. I mean that's that's the thing about when it comes to Trying to make these conveyor characters seem convincing or normal human being would not just be okay after losing a championship They've been trying to get for over 10 years. They just wouldn't go back to being off. It's cool, bro They wouldn't even not like mentioning it. They would say something. I lost the championship I'm gonna try to find Bob I'm gonna try to find a way to get my opportunity back to take care of the job Something you don't just go back to throwing pancakes when that happened. I was all yeah, Kofi's done I didn't even care for him no more because it was like, all right. Well It was one while it lasted they did them dirty, but it was from while elastic. Who's next? And then you got to wonder should I even care about the next person that I want to see make it to the top They make it to the top and then then what are they gonna get booked correctly? Who knows? Honestly like this is why most of the audience doesn't stick around It's that's the point of this book and give Kofi more opponents to play into his strengths have the WWE championship Main event some paper views and have the rain end in a way that treats the character of Kofi Kingston With a little bloody dignity. We start on the build up to WrestleMania 35 The only things that change here are one Mustafa Ali does not compete for the WWE Championship at Fastlane Instead, it's just Kevin Owens versus Daniel Bryan and two let's clear up Vince's motivations a little Shall we instead of just avoiding the issues and just relying on B plus player to take care of it? Have Vince Actually make it clear that look Kofi. I like you you're you've been great over the last ten years You know thanks for your service, but if you were gonna be a main event star We're looking at a decade Kofi. You would have done it already now. You don't seem to understand I'm all for opportunities pal, but this is WrestleMania We're talking about the biggest show of the year. We are talking about the WWE Championship match At WrestleMania. I'm sorry, but it is too big a spotlight and I am not willing to risk you challenging for that title making my show Lesser than I'm sorry. That's simple that simple doesn't have to go It doesn't have to cross the line. I like that doubt that was simple straight to the point a You've had your opportunity Now, you know, I don't think this is not, you know the time for that I got to find someone that I feel like will really Bring that big match feel. I'm sorry Kofi at this present moment. You don't Was that the logical reasoning is you will hurt WrestleMania with this crusade of yours So know your place. Let's move on and Kofi says no after 11 years of doing just that This might be my only chance. I won't let it go So then we have Kofi winning the bell at WrestleMania like it happened lovely moment not changing a thing Except that in the aftermath of the show Daniel Bryan takes out all of his aggression on Eric Rowan fires him from his retinue breaks his arm loses the plot after WrestleMania big celebration for Kofi with the new day and instead of immediately Going into a champion versus champion match a unification match no less with Seth Rollins on Raw Which is incredibly done because a we've just seen two baby faces win their belts And we don't want to see either of them lose their belt just yet and B There's absolutely zero chance at that match ending any other way than disappointingly and hey look a Disappointing finish just a bad old thing like straight out of the game for Kofi's title reign it All right, man. I'm gonna stop it right there. This so far It's been entertaining first half of this video. I'm gonna drop the second half of this video later on Sometime this week, so be on the lookout for that But appreciate all the love and support roads to 70k appreciate y'all kicking with me. See y'all on next one. Peace