Kofi Kingston Responds To WWE Hall Of Famer Telling Him To Do Steroids

Kofi Kingston is on top of the world right now, having captured the WWE Championship from Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 35 on Sunday night. This marks his first world championship reign in his 11-year run with the company.

WWE Hall of Famer “Superstar” Billy Graham made the headlines last week for advising Kofi to “start doing steroids”. Speaking to Newsweek, Kofi has responded to Graham’s controversial advice:

“I’ve heard a few things through the grapevine. Honestly, I haven’t seen them myself. People can say whatever they want. But as long as they turn on the television, they will see me as champion. That’s really all that matters. And I don’t have a comment about people’s opinions. People are entitled to their own opinion as far as what a WWE Champion should be, but the fact is that I am WWE Champion and that’s a fact. It is what it is”.

Billy Graham was also critical of WWE for sometimes having smaller guys like AJ Styles, Daniel Bryan and obviously Kofi Kingston as their top champion. The New Day member said he thought it was great that smaller guys were now getting their chance at the top:

” I think it’s great. A group of guys who are not what you would think of when you think of a typical professional wrestler. You see a lot of smaller guys who can do some incredible things on top. It’s funny, because I had an appearance with Shawn Michaels and Johnny Gargano and we were all talking about how when you’re smaller, you have to give it a bit extra. You have to fight a little bit harder and that much better and allow your talent to shine through. That’s been proven by guys like Shawn, guys like me—guys like Gargano or AJ Styles, Daniel Bryan, Seth Rollins—we take a lot of pride in being workhorses and just giving it everything we can and proving that size doesn’t matter. It’s really all about getting the people to believe in you and the harder you work, the better you become.”

Kofi also spoke about how he felt on Sunday night after his big win inside MetLife Stadium:

” It’s all a blur. To be honest, it was kind of just hazy. It’s just one of those things where you dream about being in that moment, on that stage, since I was a kid. To think that it actually came true, it’s finally starting to settle in now. With the Super Bowl and NBA Championship, [players] get the chance to be done the day after, and it lets them settle inn. For me, I had RAW the next day and SmackDown and then a big travel day. But I finally got home a couple of days ago and now it’s really starting to sink in, the gravity of what happened. An amazing moment to be at the platform and to be in that ring. People on their feet, with all kinds of emotions, happy, tears in their eyes. It was incredibly surreal.”

This comes after “The Man” Becky Lynch revealed that she was actually nervous that Kofi’s dramatic rise to the top of the WWE card would prevent her from main eventing WrestleMania.