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#1. Hope isn't true: An injury canceled a major Kofi Kingston storyline

Fans were surprised by how Kofi Kingston was handled following his ten-second loss to Brock Lesnar on the SmackDown FOX debut. Tom Colohue initially reported that there was a great storyline being planned for Kofi Kingston, but an injury to Xavier Woods means that the plans were canceled.

Colohue stated that the storyline would see Kofi Kingston become the weak link of The New Day.

“The plan was for Kofi to be the weak link in New Day. He’d lose matches and he’d do a lot of stuff to make you realize he’s not actually okay. We’re not talking heel turn or anything like that. He’d still be Kofi. He’d just be angry and out for revenge.”

A source within WWE has explained to me that the partnership of Xavier Woods and Big E would be the one to find success again, leaving Kofi to take some time to find himself. Unfortunately, due to the injury to Xavier Woods, that storyline has been abandoned for now at least.

We hope this isn't true because it would have been a fantastic storyline and we hope that they can run it once Woods is back from injury.

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