Today at BFTS, we look at one of the few bright spots in WWE's dreadful 2015: Kofi Kingston of The New Day.
As always, the tiers are as follows (for a full introduction to Booking from the Seats! click here):
1) Tag Team: these individuals are best suited for tag team duty. This isn't a demotion. New Day and PTP are clearly tag guys, but also some of the most over on the roster.
2) Lower Card: This is comprised of mostly jobbers and enhancement talent, but also of guys who clearly have a future they are just too new and raw to stand out. Lower card guys can get significant story time and should be important as well!
3) Midcard: In theory this should be the division most populated. Should normally beat tier 2, but they aren't in the higher ranks. These are the guys who really carry a show between hot angles.
4) Upper Midcard: This is where you have guys who might not be main event level, but should consistently beat everyone outside of the top tier. This tier has a lot of champions, as they are strong enough for both secondary and primary championship titles. (The latter normally as a transitional champion.)
5) Main Event: This doesn't just involve the title holder, but anyone who is consistently trusted with major angles that drive the show. Even when Cena isn't competing for the big belt, he's still a centerpiece of the show.
6) Part Timer: These individuals normally exist outside of the everyday WWE canon. (HHH is a part-timer but is exempt from this rule.) They seldom appear in ring, and when they do it is normally to pop ratings or ppv's.
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If you would have said at the start of 2015 Kofi would be part of the most charismatic and entertaining act of 2015, I would not believe you. By the start of 2015, Kofi was a veteran without much direction. The New Day up until that point was a borderline racist caricature that was flopping badly. Yet since Wrestlemania, they've been one of the only reasons you should have watched. Any time they've tried taking the belts off of New Day, the competition has flopped. New Day should stick around until Big E is ready for a sustained singles push. Since that's still a long time away, let them continue making the tag team division relevant. I for one can't wait until 2017 triple threat matches between New Day, Realest Guys, and Jordan/Gable.
What say you, Cagesiders?
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Brock Lesnar
Roman Reigns
John Cena
Adam Rose
Big E
Big Show
Bo Dallas
Braun Strowman
Bray Wyatt
Bubba Ray Dudley
Cesaro
Chris Jericho
Curtis Axel
D-Von Dudley
Darren Young
Alberto Del Rio
Damien Sandow
Dean Ambrose
Dolph Ziggler
Erick Rowan
Fandango
Goldust
Heath Slater
Jack Swagger
Jimmy Uso
Jey Uso
Kalisto
Kane
Kevin Owens
King Barrett