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10. KofiMania II

Hearts that had been pumped full of joy following Kofi Kingston's history-making WrestleMania 35 WWE Championship victory were broken by the October 4th edition of SmackDown as the New Day man lost his prize to Brock Lesnar in just eight seconds.

WWE have deployed 'The Beast' as something of a party-spoiling troll before, but this particular bit of booking felt damaging in the extreme - not least when Kingston appeared not to give a single sh*t a week later.

Two weeks later though...

In a very cute bit of character work that was either entirely improvised of a moment of careful foreshadowing from the company, Kingston did his best "everything is fine" whilst gritting teeth and crushing pancakes during a segment with Heavy Machinery. He's continued on as normal in the wake of some modest tag team success again alongside Big E, but where can his anger even go anyway? Brock Lesnar has disappeared off to Monday Night Raw, unreachable from SmackDown unless Kofi were to perhaps finally win a match he's mastered not losing.

The Royal Rumble has played host to his numerous wacky bullsh*t elimination escapes over the years, but what are they if not training for actually going the distance? Only then can he issue a challenge to the Champion and heroically reclaim what he lost, exactly one year on from doing it the very first time.