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Kofi Kingston was almost at risk of losing his WWE Championship. But he already knew that. The Dreadlock Dynamo came out during the opening segment of RAW and challenged Universal Champion Seth Rollins to a champion vs champion winner takes all match.
Seth Rollins, being the fighting champion that he is, accepted Kingston's challenge, albeit with a bit of reluctance. During the main event, The Bar interfered and would attack the two, leading to a tag team match. The two champions won and stood tall, which means that Kofi Kingston will be walking into SmackDown Live as WWE Champion.
Over on the blue brand, he's set to have a major WWE Championship celebration. It's undoubtedly going to be an epic one and an entertaining one. The biggest questions are as to what could happen and more importantly - who could interfere.
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Celebrations never really go as planned and here's who could be making an apperance during the celebrations.
#5. Daniel Bryan interferes
Daniel Bryan is not going to be a happy man. He lost his WWE Championship clean to Kofi Kingston and to add to it, his hemp title was essentially trashed away in favour of the older design.
The fact of the matter is that Daniel Bryan won't be getting an immediate rematch right off the bat. It's key to remember that this era has done away with the concept of immediate rematches, which means that if he does want to get the WWE Championship back, he's going to have to earn his shot again.
Rest assured, an angry Daniel Bryan will make his way out and will try to berate Kofi Kingston as much as possible. However, Kingston is clearly in his head, which is why its going to be interesting to see what "The New" Daniel Bryan's approach is.
#4. The Bar interject
For some reason, Cesaro and Sheamus interjected in the champion vs champion winner takes all match on the main event of RAW. It came as a surprise to quite a few fans, because it felt so random and thrown together.
But what if we told you that it wasn't? What if we told you that it was done by design for a feud to begin on SmackDown. It's unlikely that The Bar will move to RAW during the Superstar Shake-Up because they just changed brands last year.
This means that the interference was likely done to set up a feud against The New Day for Money in the Bank. If not that, The Bar could be aligning with a third member to take on The New Day in a faction vs faction rivalry. It's been a while since we've seen that, plus it keeps both teams away from the tag titles.
#3. Big E turns on Kofi Kingston
If you were to ask yourself which member of The New Day would benefit the most from splitting, the answer would probably be Kofi Kingston, now that he's become WWE champion. However, that's not actually true.
The New Day played an integral role in Kofi Kingston's rise to the top and the reality is that if they were to split, Big E would undoubtedly be the biggest beneficiary. PWTorch reported that prior to Roman Reigns, Vince McMahon had his eyes on pushing Big E to the moon, until Triple H convinced him that Reigns was the guy to build the company around.
However, Big E has huge potential as a singles star and The New Day are now 4.5 years into their run as a group, the longest in WWE history.
There's a high chance that the celebration could end with Big E turning on Kofi Kingston.
#2. Eddie Guerrero '05 kind of celebration
Kofi Kingston's WWE Championship win was undoubtedly up there as one of the most emotional of all time. Another extremely emotional WWE title win was at No Way Out 2004, when Eddie Guerrero defeated Brock Lesnar to become WWE Champion.
Two nights later on SmackDown, Guerrero had a celebration of his own, and he was welcomed like the biggest hero in the world. He came through the crowd and had the grandest championship celebration of all time.
There was confetti, there were balloons coloured red, white and green in tribute to his home country Mexico, there was pyro, but most importantly, there was the energy. Sometimes, not everything has to lead to another storyline.
Eddie Guerrero was allowed to have his moment uninterrupted and it worked perfectly. There's absolutely nothing wrong if Kofi Kingston has a grand celebration without any interference whatsoever. But we know that's unlikely.
#1. Vince McMahon comes out to announce a new challenger
The biggest foil to Kofi Kingston's WWE Championship aspirations was not Daniel Bryan, nor was it any of the superstars that he competed against to earn the spot. His biggest foil was Vince McMahon, who ultimately was put in a position where he couldn't deny Kingston the opportunity.
Kofi Kingston's feud with Vince McMahon may not necessarily be over. Wouldn't it be crazy if McMahon interrupted the celebrations and announced to Kofi Kingston that his next challenger would be an NXT call-up?
The best option that we can think of is Adam Cole from the Undisputed Era. It would be a crazy way for him to debut, entering the WWE Championship picture right away. But it would be a great way to go about it and Adam Cole would instantly be elevated to main event status.
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