WrestleMania 35: What if the PPV doesn’t live up to the hype?

#3. Kofi Kingston takes the blame

Kofi Kingston has enjoyed the push of a lifetime building to WrestleMania 35. Might he shoulder the blame if the show doesn't live up to the hype?

While the female main event talents have a lot of weight on their shoulders for this WrestleMania, WWE’s next biggest gamble may fall on Kofi Kingston, who has had so much SmackDown TV time dedicated to him in his quest to get a WWE title shot at WrestleMania.

Kingston is a solid and entertaining in-ring performer and paired with supreme talent like Daniel Bryan, the odds are the match will be good, if not great. Rather than a question of quality of performance, the test for Kingston comes to drawing power. A vocal contingent of hardcore fans are undeniably behind him going into the biggest show of the year. However, there is a risk of WWE reading a poor response to WrestleMania as a sign that more casual fans didn’t buy into him as a viable world title contender for a show this big.