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Kofi Kingston
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Ghanaian-American professional wrestler
Film & TV
Kumasi, Ghana
Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah, is a Ghanaian American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Kofi Kingston, currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment working on the SmackDown brand. Since competing for WWE, he has won the Intercontinental Championship two times, the United States Championship once, and the World Tag Team Championship once with CM Punk.
Known for
- WWE Best of Raw 2024 Special — Kofi Kingston2025
- WrestleMania IX: Becoming a Spectacle — Self2025
- WrestleMania 41: Saturday — Kofi Kingston2025
- WrestleMania 41 Kickoff — Kofi Kingston2025
- WWE/AAA Worlds Collide 2025: Las Vegas — Kofi Kingston2025
- Survivor Series: WarGames — Kofi Kingston2025
- WWE Raw Classics — Kofi Kingston2025
- WWE's Greatest Moments — Kofi Kingston2025
- WWE Royal Rumble 2024 — Kofi Kingston2024
- WrestleMania XL Saturday — Kofi Kingston2024
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,079
- Total plays
- 8,421
Tags
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Key facts
- Born
- Kofi Nahaje Sarkodie-Mensah , ( 1981-08-14 ) August 14, 1981 (age 44) , Kumasi , Ghana
- Alma mater
- Boston College
- Spouse
- Kori Campfield ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2010 )
- Ring name s
- Kofi Kingston, Kofi Nahaje Kingston, Kofi
- Billed height
- 6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
- Billed weight
- 212 lb (96 kg)
- Billed from
- Ghana , West Africa , Kingston , Jamaica
- Trained by
- Chaotic Wrestling , Killer Kowalski , Ohio Valley Wrestling
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- The New Day
- Given name
- Kofi
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Kumasi
- Occupation
- professional wrestler
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Instrument
- voice
- Mass
- 96
- Image
- Kofi Kingston by Gage Skidmore.jpg
- Height
- 183
- Number of children
- 3
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- Commons category
- Kofi Kingston
- date of birth
- 1981-08-14
- pseudonym
- Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah
- start of work period
- 2006-00-00
- social media followers
- 2235809
- trained by
- Deep South Wrestling
- official residence
- Jamaica
- end of work period
- 2026-00-00
- start time
- 2006-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Kofi Nahaje Sarkodie-Mensah (born August 14, 1981), better known by his ring name Kofi Kingston, is a Ghanaian-American professional wrestler. He is best known for his 20-year tenure in WWE from 2006 to 2026, where he held various championships, including the WWE Championship and is a record-holding 16-time Tag Team Champion. He is also known for being a member of The New Day alongside Xavier Woods and Big E.
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. After signing a developmental deal with WWE in 2006, he shortened his ring name to Kofi Kingston. He debuted in WWE's brand ECW (Extreme Championship Wrestling) 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kofi Kingston” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.