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In one of the best WrestleMania moments in a long time, Kofi Kingston ended his 11-year pursuit for a world championship by successfully defeating Daniel Bryan for the WWE Title in an incredible match.
But we shouldn't forget what Kofi Kingston had to do to get there. He had to fight in a handicap match against The Bar, he had to win a Gauntlet Match, which he did, and then The New Day had to win a tag-team Gauntlet Match, which they did.
These were all obstacles put in front of Kofi Kingston by Mr. McMahon because the chairman didn't see Kingston as championship material. In fact, both McMahon and Bryan used the term 'B+ Player' in a nice callback from Daniel Bryan's rise to the top.
So it's certainly no surprise that people were expecting yet another twist in Kingston's story, and were just waiting for McMahon's music to hit, even when Kingston was celebrating in the ring with his children.
But it didn't happen. Here are five reasons why WWE and Vince McMahon decided not to interfere in Kofi Kingston's magical moment!
#5. By winning at WrestleMania he proved he's not a B+ Player
Vince McMahon isn't an unreasonable man, he just simply didn't think that Kofi Kingston was worthy of being a world champion. He thought the 'Dreadlocked Dynamo' lacked that killer instinct, that championship pedigree, that raw determination to be a champ so he did what he could to prevent him from being put into a spot he couldn't live up to.
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However, when Kingston pinned Daniel Bryan in front of 80,000 people during WrestleMania 35 he proved Vince McMahon and every other doubter wrong and as a result, he convinced Mr. McMahon, meaning there was no longer any need for the Chairman to intervene.
#4. It Mirrored Daniel Bryan's journey
Daniel Bryan's story was very similar to Kofi Kingston's with WWE deliberately invoking elements of Bryan's meteoric rise to winning the title at WrestleMania from a few years ago and re-using it for this story.
The term B+ Player was used, there were gauntlet matches and corporate heels making life hard and there was the same overwhelming crowd support behind Kingston as there was Bryan.
And Bryan's journey ended with the birth of the Yes Movement, occupy Raw and eventually the underdog winning the world championship at WrestleMania, so it made absolute sense that Kofi Kingston won the world championship too.
This was a perfect example of a story coming full circle with Bryan becoming the thing he fought against and someone else taking his place as the beloved underdog. Perfect work from WWE.
#3. It creates an incredible WrestleMania moment
WrestleMania is all about creative the patented WWE 'Mania moments and Kofi Kingston winning at WrestleMania 35 and becoming a Grand Slam Champion and the first-ever African American WWE Champion was definitely a certified entry into the list of timeless WrestleMania moments.
Seeing an ecstatic Kofi Kingston celebrating in the ring with his joyful New Day teammates and adorably excited children whilst Big E and Xavier Woods threw 'There's a New Champ' t-shirts into the crowd will be forever etched into my brain. As will the deafening chants from the crowd.
That was definitely not the right moment to hit Vince McMahon's music and throw a spanner in the works, sapping all of the happiness and good-will out of the moment!
#2. He deserves it
Kofi Kingston has been with the company for eleven years. He's the most successful individual tag-team wrestler they have, he was one title away from being Grand Slam champion.
He should've been WWE Champion a long time ago, but his push was derailed by a silly mistake and even sillier backstage politics, but for someone as popular and likable as Kofi to go eleven years without even really getting close to a world title match is almost criminal.
So Kofi's win at WrestleMania has definitely righted some wrongs as well as reward a longtime loyal employee for all of the hard work and dedication he's shown by putting his body on the line week in and week out.
#1. The cheating is yet to come
Do you ever get the feeling we're being lulled into a false sense of security? Sure, we got our wonderful WrestleMania moment with Kofi Kingston winning the WWE Title and Vince McMahon not interfering in any way.
But what if Vince McMahon is just biding his time, letting Kingston have his moment for now, but is planning to make life hard for the newly crowned WWE Champion at the next earliest opportunity he gets.
What a bitter-sweet sucker-punch that would be, to see Kingston finally win a world title after all of this time only for Vince McMahon to cook up a way to take it off of him at the next SmackDown Live.
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