Brock Lesnar beat Kofi Kingston in 9 seconds and WWE fans are stunned

The highly anticipated debut of WWE SmackDown on Fox concluded with a WWE Championship match between Kofi Kingston and Brock Lesnar, but the bout was over less than 10 seconds after the bell rang.

Kingston, who had held the WWE Champioship since WrestleMania 35 and successfully defended it against the likes of Kevin Owens, Samoa Joe and Randy Orton, was immediately pinned by Lesnar after being hit with a single F-5.

Damn son, just like that…#WWE #SmackDown pic.twitter.com/w4phAe93Ud

— CycloneKill (@KillCyclone) October 5, 2019

After the match, Rey Mysterio made a surprise entrance alongside Cain Velasquez – the former UFC star who knocked out Lesnar at UFC 121 to win the UFC Heavyweight Championship in 2010. Velasquez attacked Lesnar in the ring, setting up a rematch between the two in WWE.

WHAT?!?!@cainmma is HERE and he is getting a piece of the NEW #WWEChampion @BrockLesnar!!!! #SmackDown @HeymanHustle @reymysterio pic.twitter.com/wQ7YlW3wdw

— WWE (@WWE) October 5, 2019

Many WWE fans were heartbroken for Kingston, who saw his epic WWE title reign end in the briefest of squash matches.

They couldn’t even give Kofi Kingston some damn offense. Come on! After the run he had. I get Brock Lesnar winning the #WWE championship. But like that? #SmackDown

— Scott Fishman (@smFISHMAN) October 5, 2019

MONTHS OF HAVING THAT TITLE AND IT’S GONE IN 5 SECONDS. My dude Kofi was robbed 👿 #SmackDown

— Clay On Air (@ClayOnAir) October 5, 2019

KOFI KINGSTON WORKED SO HARD TO BECOME WWE CHAMPION JUST TO LOSE IN SECONDS. WHATTTTTTT #SmackDown #WWEOnFOX pic.twitter.com/ZLYabXvJoP

— 👅 ☕️ Ⓩ 👅 ☕️ (@The_Realest2_) October 5, 2019

Everybody when they did Kofi Kingston dirty #WWE #SmackDown pic.twitter.com/GTU1dmwgIJ

— VizualKillah (@wesmarshall5) October 5, 2019

Yeah, pretty much @TheMarkHenry pic.twitter.com/0dRT3x22SE

— Paid man gets bored (@cjzero) October 5, 2019

I really feel for Kofi. Match was over before they got the ad copy off the screen. #SmackDown pic.twitter.com/56DRCmBTb8

— JE Snowden (@JESnowden) October 5, 2019

They gave kofi 1 of the best wwe title runs in recent memory to get squash in 5 seconds come on vince wtf was that pic.twitter.com/XHYVxrIWge

— Kimono P (@_Polo8) October 5, 2019