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Kofi Kingston had one of the most memorable moments of his career at WrestleMania 35 when he finally became WWE Champion for the first time. While Kingston had a good stint as the top Champion on SmackDown, he lost the WWE Championship to Brock Lesnar on the first episode of SmackDown on Fox.

Though many believed there will be redemption story for Kofi Kingston to avenge his quick loss at the hands of Lesnar, nothing of that sort happened. As per SportsKeeda's Tom Colohue, there are no plans to have Kingston regain the WWE Championship and he will likely stay in the tag-team division.

There is no plan to have Kofi Kingston in the main event for a while yet, if ever again. So it would be the tag division he would go to, if he was to move.

Even while Kofi Kingston was the WWE Champion, there were no plans to give him a second reign. There were no plans to keep him in the main event after he lost that title, and that's exactly what happened. The second he lost that belt, it was over. It is and is a crying shame to take someone that talented and drop him off the face of the earth.

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Shiven Sachdeva is a WWE writer who has been with Sportskeeda for over eight years. He is an alumnus of IIT-R and holds a Master's Degree in Commerce. His love for writing and pro wrestling led him to become a writer. Shiven has interviewed multiple top WWE stars, including former champions Kofi Kingston, Becky Lynch, and Seth Rollins, to name a few.

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