10 Wrestling Feuds Where The Bad Guy Won
7. Randy Orton Vs. Kofi Kingston
Randy Orton calling Kofi Kingston "STUPID!" during their 2019 feud over the latter's WWE Championship win was the cutest of callbacks to the end of their first rivalry - not least because the story with 'The Viper' ensured that it'd be a long time before a young Kingston ever got near the top strap again.
Kofi was just another midcarder trying really hard to get over in a company gradually losing its grip on how to do just that, but a run of success around Survivor Series time back in 2009 could have been the perfect way to propel him a decade before they actually managed it.
Kingston scored an elimination match victory against Orton then took on 'The Apex Predator' and his Legacy mates as they rather listlessly attempted to run roughshod over Monday Night Raw. A Madison Square Garden leg drop was a genuine Moment(TM) but it proved to be the newcomer's last - Orton beat him clean as a sheet on pay-per-view before the aforementioned IRL b*llocking in a pre-Royal Rumble Raw match parked his push once and for all.
Orton was a sh*thouse throuhgout but it's not like the angle remotely mattered when the company was so keen to cater to his temper either way.