10 wrestlers who need a push after WrestleMania

#1 Kofi Kingston

Kofi Kingston has had a Hall of Fame career, and he's only 10 years into the game in WWE

You didn’t see this coming, did you? Kofi Kingston has been a part of the WWE roster since the beginning of 2008 and from the very start, he has been a mainstay. He debuted on ECW on Sci-Fi in January 2008 and won his first title, the Intercontinental Championship, almost exactly six months later. And he beat Chris Jericho to win it. Since then he has held that title for a total of 4 times, the United States Championship 3 times, and he is a 7-time tag team champion. The man has been all over the place and has done pretty much everything you can do in WWE -- except win a World Title.

Now of course, not everybody needs to win the WWE Championship. Some of the best of all time like Roddy Piper and Jake Roberts never won the belt. Mr Perfect didn’t win it, either. It’s a different time now -- championship reigns are often much shorter, and the belts aren’t given only to THE guys. Say hello to WWE Champion Jinder Mahal and World Champions Great Khali and Jack Swagger. But that doesn’t describe Kofi Kingston. He’s a wrestler who could easily become THE guy for one of the two brands. He is supremely talented in the ring, he’s amazingly charismatic, he is funny, he can play it serious -- much like his younger partner in The New Day who is also on this list, Big E -- Kofi can do it all.

As I mentioned, it looks like it’s a possibility that The New Day may not make it out of 2018. They might not make it through the rumoured upcoming draft later on this spring. If that’s the case and New Day is no more, I think it’s time to give Kofi a run at the big one. It looked like he was headed that way as early as mid-to-late 2009, less than 2 years into his run in WWE when he got a program with Randy Orton, but that didn’t turn out well due to, by some alleged accounts, Orton throwing a tantrum because Kofi messed up the finish of a match, and it caused Kofi to lose his chance at becoming a main event guy. We’ll never know the truth, but it doesn’t matter. Kofi has had an amazing career with a ton of highlights, and he still has plenty of time to go.

But I think 2018 would be a great year for him to move on to the next chapter, and he can finish his last few years (he’s only 36 even though they call him the “old man” of the New Day) -- or maybe just spend the next few years of his career before he starts winding down, as a main event guy. Doesn’t AJ Styles vs. Kofi Kingston sound like a great idea? I think it does.

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