Chaotic Wrestling[3] Killer Kowalski[3] Ohio Valley Wrestling[2]
Debut
2006
Kofi Nahaje Sarkodie-Mensah (born August 14, 1981) is a Ghanaian-born American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Kofi Kingston and is part of The New Day.
After graduating from Boston College, he decided to pursue a professional wrestling career, and began performing on the New England independent circuit as a Jamaican wrestler by the name of Kofi Nahaje Kingston.[4] After signing a developmental deal with WWE in 2006, he shortened his ring name to Kofi Kingston. He debuted in WWE in 2008 using the same Jamaican character as he did on the independent circuit. In late 2009, he stopped being billed from Jamaica and dropped the accent, although he kept his ring name. He then started being billed from his home country of Ghana.
From 2008 to 2013, Kingston became a four-time Intercontinental Champion, a three-time United States Champion, and a one-time World Tag Team Champion with CM Punk. In 2014, he formed The New Day with Big E and Xavier Woods. The trio went on to break the record for the longest tag team championship reign in WWE history when they held the WWE (Raw) Tag Team Championship from August 2015 to December 2016, defending the titles under the Freebird rule.[5][6] All totaled, Kingston is a 15-time tag team champion in WWE. In April 2019, Kingston defeated Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 35 to win the WWE Championship, giving him 23 total championships in WWE.
He is the first, and currently only, African-born world champion in WWE history. His WWE Championship win also made him WWE's 30th Triple Crown Champion and 20th overall Grand Slam Champion (13th under the current format).[7][8][9][10] With his NXT Tag Team Championship win in 2022, Kingston also became a Tag Team Triple Crown Champion, becoming the only wrestler to have won both the traditional and tag team version of the WWE Triple Crown, as well as having the most overall reigns with a WWE-branded tag team championship with 15.[11] With the exception of a few months spent as a villain in 2015 with The New Day, Kingston has been a heroic character for almost the entirety of his WWE career. Kingston has also gotten some distinction through his numerous methods of avoiding elimination during the Royal Rumble.
^ abc"Kofi Kingston's WWE profile". WWE. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
^ abCite error: The named reference Xamin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ abChris Bergeron (August 16, 2006). "Wrestle mania". The Milford Daily News. Archived from the original on April 9, 2008. Retrieved February 22, 2008.
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^Benigno, Anthony; Murphy, Ryan; Artus, Matthew (July 23, 2016). "The New Day claims longest WWE Tag Team Championship reign of all time". WWE. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
^Laboon, Jeff (September 25, 2018). "Kofi Kingston breaks record for most days as Tag Team Champion". WWE. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
^Chipepo, Elias (September 4, 2017). "Africa: WWE Superstar Wants More African Atheletes [sic] to Join Sport" – via AllAfrica.
signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name KofiKingston and is part of The New Day. After graduating from Boston College, he...
October 18, 2019. Pappolla, Ryan. "KofiKingston def. Sami Zayn; Dolph Ziggler returned and brutally attacked Kofi". WWE.com. Archived from the original...
roster in 2013. In 2014, Woods formed The New Day alongside Big E and KofiKingston, and has since become a record seven-time SmackDown Tag Team Champion...
threat match to win both championships. In a main match from SmackDown, KofiKingston defeated Daniel Bryan to win his first WWE Championship, and in the...
attacking KofiKingston. He brought the United States Championship to SmackDown, but lost it back to the Raw brand at Extreme Rules on 1 May when Kingston defeated...
last eliminating KofiKingston. At Fastlane on March 10, Bryan was originally scheduled to defend his championship against Kingston, but after Mr. McMahon...
composed of 37 individual champions, and one vacancy. The New Day's KofiKingston and Xavier Woods have the most reigns at seven, both as a team and individually...
Machine: "KOFIKINGSTON vs. JIMMY USO: UpUpDownDown Championship Match". YouTube. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "KOFIKINGSTON vs. JEY...
on the November 13 episode of Raw and challenged The New Day (Big E, KofiKingston and Xavier Woods) to a six-man tag team match at Survivor Series. At...
with KofiKingston about not beating Brock Lesnar, something that he had done at WrestleMania 36, but after his match he showed respect to Kingston, shaking...
Baron Corbin with a special referee for the WWE Universal Championship, KofiKingston vs. Dolph Ziggler in a cage match for the WWE Championship, Becky Lynch...
championship to KofiKingston on the October 17 episode of Main Event ending his reign at 85 days. Miz failed to regain the title from Kingston in two rematches...
Raw Women's Champion Asuka vs. Peyton Royce in a non-title match, KofiKingston vs. AJ Styles, Jeff Hardy vs. The Miz, WWE Fastlane fallout". Pro Wrestling...
Ciampa), The Awesome Truth (The Miz and R-Truth), and The New Day (KofiKingston and Xavier Woods). The two teams from SmackDown were determined by two...
Charlotte Flair for the Raw and Smackdown Women's Titles, Daniel Bryan vs. KofiKingston for the WWE Championship, Brock Lesnar vs. Seth Rollins for the WWE...
constantly attacked United States Champion KofiKingston and Evan Bourne among others. He then feuded with Kingston over the United States Championship and...
formed a tag team, dubbed "Y2AJ", and defeated The New Day (Big E and KofiKingston) in two non-title matches. Y2AJ failed to win the WWE Tag Team Championship...
and Rowan again attacked Kane, carrying him away. Wyatt next targeted KofiKingston, who he defeated at Battleground on October 6. Harper and Rowan lost...
and Dean Ambrose in a six-man tag team against The New Day (Big E, KofiKingston and Xavier Woods). They won via disqualification after Jimmy was attacked...
SmackDown (Big Show, Jack Swagger, Alberto Del Rio, Edge, Tyler Reks and KofiKingston) WWE Championship Tournament (2011) 21st Triple Crown Champion 21st...
Justin. "JAMES'S WWE NXT REPORT 1/15 – Week 81: Triple H makes announcement, Kofi vs. Rusev test match, NXT champ in action, Neville/PAC; Overall Reax". PWTorch...
Chamber 2019 live review: Daniel Bryan vs. AJ Styles vs. Jeff Hardy vs. KofiKingston vs. Randy Orton vs. Samoa Joe in an Elimination Chamber match for the...
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