Ahmed Johnson, Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin, MVP, Rocky Johnson, Titus O'Neil. I mean being in shape has nothing to do with that's 3 different generations of wrestlers that were stuck in Mid-card land. What about when Jinder dropped the belt? Generally top guys float around the title picture or drop to a lesser belt to give it legitimacy. He ended up getting the US belt and holding that for about a week and then nothing. Kofi's run was against Dolph for 3 straight WWE lesser PPV's and then dropping the belt in record time. Again nothing.
What you're suggesting is almost laughable if it didn't hold such racial tones.
A former WWE writer Dave Schilling just admitted that the WWE producers were never behind Kofi being the WWE champion. He was booked solely to get heat on Brock for the Smackdown on Fox premiere and that was the plan from day one.
Kofi was just the most over face at the time, and Ali, who was originally the guy they were going to put in that role got injured. But that's why neither Kofi or Ali have not been in the title picture since.
The Rock is the only exception because he was going to be a star anyway.
It doesn't matter what Keith Lee does, he could turn into a body builder, Keith Lee will not get that push he had in NXT on the main roster.
Watch, he will be in a feud with Bobby next month for the US title, and then Ricochet's tag team partner before falling all the way off the radar.
variety.com
