Fantasy Booking: 5 chapters in Kofi Kingston's gauntlet match

Chapter 4 - Randy Orton

Orton can hit an RKO outta nowhere

Orton poses his trademark pose and then goes for the pin. Kofi somehow manages to kick out of the pinning attempt. Orton's smugness and delay in pinning Kofi gave him enough time to recover to be able to kick out.

Although, Orton still dominates the match and is about to RKO Kofi again when AJ's theme hits and in comes AJ Styles.

Kofi manages to take advantage of the distraction and hits his finisher for the pin.

Conclusion

The rivalry between Orton and Styles continues and a last opponent is standing between Kofi and #1 contendership.

Chapter 5 - Samoa Joe

Kofi is struggling even to stand up on his legs while a fresh Samoa Joe attacks him as the bout starts. Kofi tries to hit a few moves but is incapacitated to the core and therefore Joe manages to reverse most of the moves and continues to dominate.

Joe hits the Uranage and goes for the pin immediately but Kofi manages to kick out at the very last moment.

Kofi is still motionless and he used up even the last drop of energy that he had to kick out.

Joe then drags the motionless body of Kofi and puts him under the Coquina Clutch. Referee checks on Kofi and declares Samoa Joe as the winner as Kofi passes out.

Conclusion

Kofi didn't win the match and hence he won't get the title opportunity just yet. The whole match puts him over as a great underdog and his loss makes his eventual title shot and title victory an even bigger deal.

This would also help Smackdown as a whole too as the audience would be glued to the TV sets to find out how Kofi would earn his title opportunity in the coming weeks.