10 Times WWE SmackDown Went Too Far

2. Brock Lesnar Ends KofiMania

How far is your too far?

It's been over a year since Kofi Kingston was humiliated by Brock Lesnar on the first Fox edition of SmackDown, and outside of a brief Royal Rumble rough-housing, he hasn't gone absolutely insane and battered 'The Beast' in a violent revenge attack.

The manner of the loss was a burial too far. The fact he lost his WWE Championship in a matter of seconds and didn't seem to give a sh*t was an under-thought too far. In every wrong direction WWE could travel with this angle, they traveled too far. The New Day man had audiences crying buckets over his victory at WrestleMania earlier in the year, and though some of his painfully midcard title matches left fans bored to tears in the months that followed, he deserved substantially better than the squash he was made to suffer when he lost it.

WWE seems to genuinely revel in the disappointment of its audience on occasions, and this remains one of the most recent egregious examples.

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