WWE star and former WWE Champion Kofi Kingston who is also a former thirteen times WWE Tag Team Champion recently talked about his plans on how long he would like to continue his in ring career. He also talked about the status of his current WWE contract.
After more than two years of joining WWE he made his main roster debut. From the very beginning, WWE treated him as a mid carder and a lower mid carder. As Vince McMahon does not like to put high flyers on the main he went very much, being a high flyer himself he could not be elevated to the main event status.
Kofi Kingston Discusses His Future In Professional Wrestling
But in different criteria he was more than enough successful. He won a total of seven mid card Championship, a total of four IC titles and free United States championships. He also won a total of 13 Tag Team championships in WWE. Among 11 of them were won during New Day days.
Then finally WWE gave him the unthinkable; a main event title run. At WrestleMania 35, she defeated Daniel Bryan to win the WWE Championship. It made fans really happy. He kept on retaining the championship for six months before Brock Lesnar defeated him in a special episode of Smackdown. The defeat showed that his push is gone for good.
After losing the WWE Championship he went back to work as mostly a tag team wrestler as a member of New Day once again. Of course he got some singles title matches but none of them were effective enough to build him back as a singles star. Right now, his stable is out of the tag team picture as well.
Kofi Kingston who is also a former thirteen times WWE Tag Team Champion recently spoke to Peter Rosenberg on Cheap Heat where he talked about his plans on how long he would like to continue his in ring career. He also talked about the status of his current WWE contract. He said;
“I don’t know. I have a couple of years left on my contract. I never say, ‘In two years I’m going to be done.’ We always get on Mark Henry about this because he said he was going to retire for 12 years. ‘I’m gonna be done after this year,’ and all of a sudden he comes out in his stuff, ‘Vince (McMahon) told me that they needed me, so I signed for another five years.’
“Mark, come on man, you ain’t never retiring! We get on him about that. This industry is so unique and so fun and such a short period of time in our lives, and I know it’s very hard to walk away. What a lot of people miss about it, and from being on the roster and what I’ve been told, they miss the camaraderie in the locker room. Even now, I see the transition happening where myself, Dolph (Ziggler), Miz, Randy (Orton), we’re kind of the elder statesmen.
“Everyone else has gone through NXT, people who I didn’t come up with, so you see the natural transition happening, but the camaraderie in the locker room, it’s still there. Once that’s gone, you don’t really get it back. I’ve always said, as long as I’m having fun, I don’t want to be the guy who comes to work every day and is complaining about being there, ‘I’m not happy with a storyline, I’m pissed off about this.’
“This job is so amazing that you should be feeling elated about it every single day. Obviously, there are ups and downs, we all know that, but overall, you shouldn’t be coming to work and having it weigh on yourself and you take it home and you’re mad about what’s going on at work and now the quality of your life isn’t what it should be.” concluded Kofi Kingston.
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