Kofi all of a sudden?

I’m sorry but KOFI should be no where near a BIG 4 ppv main event let alone WRESTLEMANIA.....it’s cool to see him get a title shot but he’s not Heavyweight Champion Material

It shouldn't be that difficult to believe. One of the most famous bouts in UFC history is Royce Gracie vs Dan Severn, which the much smaller (by about 80lbs) Gracie won. In addition to that, both Manny Yarborough and Akebono, two of the biggest guys to ever compete in MMA, both lost matches to men less than 1/2 of their respective bodyweights.

The problem with Kofi is, that this came out of no where.

He has been in a tag team for the past 4 years, and because Ali gets injured, Kofi somehow gets this push??

There are a lot of other guys that could have taken his spot. Nakamura vs. Bryan would make a helluva lot more sense at the PPV than Kofi vs. Bryan.

Definitely a case of the blind leading the blind. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the hell out of the last 10 minutes of that chamber match. It's so rare that we get to see someone who's never been champ before get a believable chance at winning it. Most of the matches you see these days are guys who've already won the title. I'm ready for another moment similar to win Guerrero or Benoit won their respective world titles.

I enjoyed his push back in the day Before the Orton incident. Glad to see something big is happening for him, I fully expected Big E to take the chamber spot as he is usually the one they try and push when it comes to singles matches.

Its been a long time since we have seen Kofi work as a singles guy. Itd be great to see Kofi win the big one and defend the title under "New Day rules" wherein any member of the new day can defend the title. They've been around long enough and have been hugely successful there's no devaluation in giving them their own "freebirds" style title defense system.

So, what was the Orton incident with Kofi? I only got back into watching the past few years. Thanks.

That's the big difference maker here, to me, at least. I'm a big fan of Nakamura - certainly moreso than I would say I'm a fan of Kofi. That said, when the opportunity presented itself for Nakamura to go toe-to-toe with AJ, it just sort of...happened. It wasn't particularly memorable or engaging, and the best thing to come of it was a promising heel turn that hasn't amounted to much in the year since. Contrarily, Kofi's run these past few weeks has been considerably more engaging. The live audience has been eating it up, it's resonating through whatever it is WWE likes to direct their talent to do on social media, and it's creating the sort of excitement across the board that the company, rightly, should look to thrive upon.

I'd love for Nakamura to have gotten a shot and have made it work, but for whatever reason, it didn't. Kofi, who wasn't particularly even on my radar (or that of many others), was handed the ball and has made a hell of a drive. Wrestling's a funny business, but it only makes sense to capitalize on what works. McMahon and Co. eat so much sh*t for not responding when something clicks into place. I'm willing to hand them the benefit of the doubt on the rare occasion that they do.

Main reason I'm all for it is because wwe is too predictable and this would have truly been a WOW!!! moment. We don't get those anymore. Also Daniel Bryan is an awful heel with a pansy gimmick. I'd be all for Hawkins winning the title of it got this current crapoff my tv.

Yeah, the size argument is just plain grasping. Even if you disregard the 30 year shift from "the land of the giants" to today, the last three champions share an average difference in weight of approximately four pounds between them, and about one inch height difference, in all. Kofi is perfectly within class, size wise, as Daniel Bryan or AJ Styles. Hell, Kofi isn't even the smallest among them.