Last year Kofi Kingston finally lived his dream when he challenged Daniel Bryan for the WWE Championship at WrestleMania 35.
In the end Kofi Kingston was able to defeat Daniel Bryan and capture the WWE Championship for the first time in his career.
For six months Kofi carried the title with pride as he took on all comers, but he was met with an obstacle he couldn’t overcome when he defended the WWE Championship against Brock Lesnar.
Lesnar made short work of Kingston, and the former champion admitted that he pictured his title reign ending differently during an interview with Sports Illustrated.
“I will say this: It was actually closer to eight seconds, not six. Those two seconds are a big difference in track and field [laughing]. I was in the same boat as a lot of people. When I found out that it was going to end the way that it did, I had a different version. But at the end of the day, we are charged with going out and playing the role, and that’s really all we can do. I was so blessed to have had the WWE Championship. The way that it came about, everything was just so serendipitous. From me having to wait 11 years to get a single title shot, then I was finally able to achieve the dream against a guy like Daniel Bryan, who was in the very same role as me five years before, when the people were demanding he become WWE Champion. It was the year of returns.”
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