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Post by Hulk With A Mustache on Jan 29, 2023 0:33:42 GMT -5
Did he f*** it up again? Or did Brock throw him out so damn hard that it caused a botch? He was thrown out by Gunther and was clearly supposed to do something, but he just wound up skidding across the floor. They kind of tried to salvage it by showing his foot sitting on a chair but he never came back. I couldn't remember if it was Brock or Gunther. Anyway, KOFI SCREWED UP TWO YEARS IN A ROW!!!! HILARIOUS!!!!
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jan 29, 2023 0:41:01 GMT -5
Gunther: “I HATE IT TOO”
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jan 29, 2023 2:22:06 GMT -5
Did he f*** it up again? Or did Brock throw him out so damn hard that it caused a botch? He was thrown out by Gunther and was clearly supposed to do something, but he just wound up skidding across the floor. They kind of tried to salvage it by showing his foot sitting on a chair but he never came back. pretty sure he was supposed to land in the chair, it looked like Woods brought it over... but it also looks like Kofi might have slammed his head into the announce table, so they probably decided to just move on to make sure he didn't get a concussion, and well the flow of the spot was blown anyway.
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Post by Chuck Conry on Jan 29, 2023 3:02:46 GMT -5
Time to move on from doing this yearly.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jan 29, 2023 5:05:37 GMT -5
I want one year of a heel Kofi who becomes the Rumble Spoiler - have him eliminated early when he fails his Rumble spot, and he spends the rest of the match lurking around, avoiding the refs outside, and ruining anyone else who tries a Rumble save spot. It was cool when Morrison did it, made sense for his gimmick. Kofi did it and it was "Cool, that thing again!!!" Now, it's just kinda lame. It would be like, if when Jake threw Damien in the ring to get at Andre and then guys for no reason started throwing snakes in to clear the ring. It's really cool the first time, it's ok the second, after that.....meh. Actually, never mind, I want a two or three month run where everyone gets snakes. Everyone just showing up with snakes to clear the ring, until either eventually they all have snakes and it's mutually assssssured desssstruction and the snakes cancel each other out, or they all admit having snakes on the road all the time is too much for them. In 1991, Jack Tunney banned all reptiles from ringside, Jake's 96 run notwithstanding, I believe that rule is still on the books.
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Post by PrimeTyme on Jan 29, 2023 6:06:44 GMT -5
I want one year of a heel Kofi who becomes the Rumble Spoiler - have him eliminated early when he fails his Rumble spot, and he spends the rest of the match lurking around, avoiding the refs outside, and ruining anyone else who tries a Rumble save spot. Actually, never mind, I want a two or three month run where everyone gets snakes. Everyone just showing up with snakes to clear the ring, until either eventually they all have snakes and it's mutually assssssured desssstruction and the snakes cancel each other out, or they all admit having snakes on the road all the time is too much for them. In 1991, Jack Tunney banned all reptiles from ringside, Jake's 96 run notwithstanding, I believe that rule is still on the books. It’s the reason Luchasaurus had to sign with AEW.
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Post by stoptheclocks on Jan 29, 2023 7:33:26 GMT -5
Every time these botch it makes me appreciate how impressive some of the ones down the years that they (Kofi, Morrison and Naomi) pulled off.
Doing this shit live is crazy.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jan 29, 2023 7:36:27 GMT -5
Every time these botch it makes me appreciate how impressive some of the ones down the years that they (Kofi, Morrison and Naomi) pulled off. Doing this shit live is crazy. We’re at a fail rate of like three out of 20 something for these save spots in battle royal matches since the Morrison one in 2011, and one of those was Austin Theory’s accidental (intentional) one from NXT that one time. Not bad going.
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Post by Gecko on Jan 29, 2023 7:40:14 GMT -5
I think what might work is instead of coming up with some convoluted spot is to have somebody completely unexpected do it instead. I mean, can Otis (learn to) do a handstand?
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Post by Spiderf 4 on Jan 29, 2023 7:48:30 GMT -5
I want one year of a heel Kofi who becomes the Rumble Spoiler - have him eliminated early when he fails his Rumble spot, and he spends the rest of the match lurking around, avoiding the refs outside, and ruining anyone else who tries a Rumble save spot. Actually, never mind, I want a two or three month run where everyone gets snakes. Everyone just showing up with snakes to clear the ring, until either eventually they all have snakes and it's mutually assssssured desssstruction and the snakes cancel each other out, or they all admit having snakes on the road all the time is too much for them. In 1991, Jack Tunney banned all reptiles from ringside, Jake's 96 run notwithstanding, I believe that rule is still on the books. And yet, Dominik/Rhea were still allowed to enter their rumble matches after what they did! -Michael Cole, probably
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Post by J is Justice on Jan 29, 2023 8:15:50 GMT -5
Wait, wasn't this scripted? I think they're trying to turn him botching into a yearly thing now.
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Post by lmagicdancer1 on Jan 29, 2023 8:27:25 GMT -5
I hope Kofi is okay. That spot looked very nasty and the commentators made it worst by saying his foot was still on the chair and never mentioning him again. They should have said something like the refs determined he was eliminated then he was helped to the back or at least show him being helped to the back by woods. At least I saw his tweet a few minutes later.
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Post by King Devitt and the Woke Mob on Jan 29, 2023 8:30:12 GMT -5
Yeah, count me in the group that hopes the guy is okay. That landing looked ROUGH.
It's time to retire the spot.
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Post by WinOwensWin on Jan 29, 2023 8:30:40 GMT -5
After last year's miss and the rough landing last night, I think it's time to retire it. It was fun originally, but some of them were so contrived that they just weren't fun.
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Post by Hypnosis on Jan 29, 2023 12:16:11 GMT -5
Kofi basically going "I'm too old for this shit" is wise.
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Post by The Blue Nova on Jan 29, 2023 14:12:34 GMT -5
I loved Morrisons spot in 2011 and kofis spot in 2013 with the chair but yeah at this point retire it
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jan 29, 2023 15:31:00 GMT -5
I get the idea that Kofi was supposed to land in the chair somehow, but either the angle or speed of which he was thrown with, Xavier's timing with the chair was off, or the chair straight up went into business for itself, regardless of why it happened, Kofi basically landed like how Family Guy characters fall to the ground when knocked out. Absolutely nasty bit, and unless they pay one of these bits off with Kofi winning the bloody Rumble, it is time to hang them up. He doesn't even need to do these risky save spots anymore to have a memorable Rumble spot. I got a kick out of Kofi and Xavier's twin booty drumming spot! Have them do more goofball low risk spots!
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Post by tirtefaa on Jan 30, 2023 4:25:44 GMT -5
The only Kofi spot I want still, is where he's just casually standing in the ring, and the ring collapses around his feet, sending him plummeting through the mat. An under the ring camera captures the moment and shows Kofi's feet touching the floor. He is motioned as being eliminated. Kofi argues that this makes no sense and he wasn't eliminated by anyone, in fact he didn't even go over the top rope. The ref shrugs and sends him to the back anyways. Kofi is never seen again.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 30, 2023 4:43:35 GMT -5
Kofi basically going "I'm too old for this shit" is wise. Yeah, please do. It's not like he hasn't had plenty of these by now to build a highlight reel out of.
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Post by Woo on Feb 6, 2023 1:43:50 GMT -5
I hated it too. Though the hilarity of him botching it two-years running them later airing a "That's Kofi Kingston! His feet never touch the floor!" advert almost made the whole thing over the years worth it. I laughed for a solid two minutes.
It was incredible when Morrison did it and made sense with parkour character rather than just being a random cool spot.
Kofi's handstand spot was also extremely creative too and I loved it.
That's where it should have stopped. I also kind of resented it becoming Kofi's spot rather than a spot anybody could do, especially since Morrison did it first. Kofi kind of stole Shelton's big spot at the annual WrestleMania MITB's too which grated me and I'm a big fan of Kofi.
Botching it twice though was hilarious, but just try and win it for once yeah?
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