Kofi Nahaje Sarkodie-Mensah (conceived August 14, 1981) is a Ghanaian-American expert wrestler. He is marked to WWE on the Raw brand under the ring name Kofi Kingston, in which he is an individual from The New Day alongside colleagues Big E and Xavier Woods. New Day are the current WWE Tag Team Champions in their second rule as a group.
Since appearing in WWE, Kingston has won 12 titles. He is a four-time WWE Intercontinental Champion, a three-time WWE United States Champion, a record tying four WWE Tag Team Champion (once with Evan Bourne as Air Boom, once with R-Truth and twice with Big E and Xavier Woods) and a one time World Tag Team Champion with CM Punk. Kingston holds the record for aggregate days spent as a WWE Tag Team Champion. Kofi is likewise known for his creative methods for suspending his disposal from fight imperial and Royal Rumble matches.
Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah was conceived close to the city of Kumasi in the Ashanti locale of Ghana. His family moved to the United States in 1984 when he was three years of age, and experienced childhood in Winchester, Massachusetts. After moving on from Boston College, Sarkodie-Mensah at first worked in an office before choosing to prepare as an expert wrestler. His dad, Kwasi, functions as an all around regarded administrator at the University.
Proficient wrestling career
Preparing and free circuit (2006)
Sarkodie-Mensah made his official wrestling debut in 2006, when he confronted Tony Omega at Chaotic Wrestling (CW) on February 24. He confronted Evan Siks on June 4 for the PWF Mayhem Heavyweight Championship. He contended essentially in the New England range, incorporating stretches in National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) – New England (where he was quickly an individual from Barry Ace's "A-List"), Millennium Wrestling Federation (MWF), New England Championship Wrestling (NECW), the Eastern Wrestling Alliance (EWA), and CW.
World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE
Profound South Wrestling (2006–2007)
In September 2006, he marked a formative contract with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and was relegated to Deep South Wrestling (DSW), a Georgia-based formative federation. He appeared in the new organization, as Kofi Nahaje Kingston, in a dull match misfortune to Montel Vontavious Porter on September 21. For whatever remains of 2006 and the start of 2007, he showed up in DSW, and additionally its Kentucky-based sister advancement Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), where he was in a label group named the Commonwealth Connection with Harry Smith. In 2007, under the ring name Kofi Nahaje Kingston, he had his first presentation to the primary WWE program, when he worked dim matches on March 5 and 26 preceding scenes of Raw against Charlie Haas and Trevor Murdoch, respectively. When he came back to the formative leagues, he abbreviated his unique ring name to Kofi Kingston and kept on substituting between both ring names all through his length there. He likewise worked live occasions, vanquishing Shelton Benjamin on May 5, and Val Venis on May 6
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