WWE Extreme Rules 2019: 20 Things You Probably Missed

18. WWE Censored Kofi's Middle Finger

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In the same introductory video package, Kofi Kingston's middle finger from SmackDown a few weeks ago was needlessly censored. This is a pay-per-view broadcast, one airing on WWE's own Network. If it wasn't censored initially on national television (in the United States anyway) the first time around, why do so here?

That felt out of place on a show that's supposed to be about throwing rules out the window.

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