Early title reigns and feud with Orton (2008–2010)Īs part of the 2008 WWE Supplemental Draft, Kingston was drafted to the Raw brand. On the June 24 ECW, Kingston defeated Benjamin in an Extreme Rules match to end their feud. After two straight losses, Benjamin got a win over Kingston on the May 20 ECW, ending his undefeated streak. Kingston remained undefeated in singles competition in ECW for months and was placed into a feud with Shelton Benjamin at the end of April 2008. After wrestling sporadic matches, Kingston was involved in his first major match, a 24-man battle royal during the WrestleMania XXIV pre-show with the winner receiving an ECW Championship match, but was eliminated by Mark Henry. He debuted on the JanuECW as a face with a win over local wrestler David Owen in Charlottesville, Virginia. view During this introduction phase, his videos, the official website and commentators noted he would be the first Jamaican to wrestle for WWE.
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ECW (2007–2008)Ī series of vignettes for Kingston's television debut began airing on the weekly ECW on Syfy television show starting on December 6, 2007. Kingston worked there for most of the remainder of the year. When the Florida-based developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) opened in June, Kingston was relocated there, appearing at their inaugural show on June 26 where he teamed with Eric Pérez against Keith Walker and Rycklon Stephens in a losing effort. He also worked live events, defeating Shelton Benjamin on May 5, and Val Venis on May 6. When he returned to the developmental federations, he shortened his original ring name to Kofi Kingston and continued to alternate between both ring names throughout his duration there. In 2007, under the ring name Kofi Nahaje Kingston, he had his first exposure to the main WWE roster, when he worked dark matches on March 5 and 26 before episodes of Raw against Charlie Haas and Trevor Murdoch, respectively. For the rest of 2006 and the beginning of 2007, he appeared in DSW, as well as its Kentucky-based sister promotion Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), where he was in a tag team dubbed the Commonwealth Connection with Harry Smith. He debuted in the new company, as Kofi Nahaje Kingston, in a dark match loss to Montel Vontavious Porter on September 21. In September 2006, he signed a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and was assigned to Deep South Wrestling (DSW), a Georgia-based developmental federation. World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE Deep South Wrestling (2006–2007) He competed primarily in the New England area, including stints in National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) – New England (where he was briefly a member of Barry Ace's "A-List"), Millennium Wrestling Federation (MWF), New England Championship Wrestling (NECW), the Eastern Wrestling Alliance (EWA), and CW. He faced Evan Siks on June 4 for the PWF Mayhem Heavyweight Championship. Sarkodie-Mensah made his official wrestling debut in 2006, when he faced Tony Omega at Chaotic Wrestling (CW) on February 24.
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Professional wrestling career Training and independent circuit (2006) His father, Kwasi, works as a well respected librarian at the University. Upon graduating from Boston College, Sarkodie-Mensah initially worked in an office before deciding to train as a professional wrestler.
His family immigrated to the United States in 1984 when he was three years old, and grew up in Winchester, Massachusetts. Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah was born near the city of Kumasi in the Ashanti region of Ghana. 2.2.7 Various feuds and championship pursuits (2012–2014).2.2.4 Early title reigns and feud with Orton (2008–2010).2.2.2 Florida Championship Wrestling (2007).2.1 Training and independent circuit (2006).Kofi is also known for his innovative ways of suspending his elimination from battle royal and Royal Rumble matches. Kingston holds the record for cumulative days spent as a WWE Tag Team Champion. 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. Since debuting in WWE, Kingston has won 12 championships.
New Day are the current WWE Tag Team Champions in their second reign as a team. He is signed to WWE under the ring name Kofi Kingston, in which he is a member of The New Day along with teammates Big E and Xavier Woods. Kofi Nahaje Sarkodie-Mensah (born August 14, 1981) is a Ghanaian-American professional wrestler.
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