The New Day may not be WWE Tag Team Champions right now but they remain one of the most popular acts in the company and veteran member Kofi Kingston has pretty much done it all...well, aside from winning a world title and actually finishing a Royal Rumble match! He has, however, found some pretty inventive ways to avoid being eliminated with the latest being standing on pancakes!
In the past, he's walked on his hands, landed on Rosebuds, and jumped around on an office chair but which of those was the hardest and how exactly does Kingston end up pulling them off?
"Honestly, I don’t even like ranking them myself as far as favorite. I just try to come up with new ideas and throw them out there and allow the fans to decide what their favorite is. I think, for me, the toughest was the handstand one; because, if you watch that one, I was thrown out of the Rumble by Miz. My hands are thrown on the ground, but my feet are up in the air, so I am walking around and doing a handstand headed towards the stairs where my feet are on the stairs and they don’t hit the floor.
"I get a lot of credit now for doing these things, but if you play close attention it is the guys around me that are doing all the work. This year, I just got knocked out of the ring and Xavier [Woods] sacrificed himself and then him and Big E sacrificed themselves and threw me back into the ring. I didn’t do anything on that. I got thrown out of the ring one time by Adam Rose and then I landed on his Rosebuds, which they then threw me back in the ring, so again, I didn’t do anything with that. Another time, I was riding on Big E’s shoulders, so again, he’s giving me a ride, I’m not the one doing any of the work, but I get a lot of the credit, which should mostly go towards those that help me, but they are definitely a lot of fun during Royal Rumble season."
Kingston is nothing if not humble and he's clearly grateful to the people who have helped make his missed eliminations so memorable over the years. Which of them is your favourite? We're sure you have an answer, so be sure to let us know your thoughts on that in the comments section down below.