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Revision as of 04:01, 30 January 2008
| Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kingston, Jamaica |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Kofi Jamaica Kofi Nahaje Kingston Kofi Kingston |
| Billed height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Billed weight | 225 lb (102 kg)[1] |
| Billed from | Jamaica[1] |
| Trained by | Chaotic Wrestling[2] OVW staff[2][3] DSW staff[2][3] |
| Debut | 2005[2] |
Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah[2][3] is a Jamaican professional wrestler, better known under his ring name, Kofi Kingston. He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment, wrestling on its ECW brand.
Career
Early career
Making his professional debut in 2005,[3] he competed primarily in the New England area, including stints in the Millennium Wrestling Federation, New England Championship Wrestling, the Eastern Wrestling Alliance, and Chaotic Wrestling under the ring name Kofi Nahaje Kingston.[2][4]
World Wrestling Entertainment (2006-present)
Developmental territories
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 territory.[2] He debuted in the new company, using the same ring name, in a dark match loss to Montel Vontavious Porter on September 21.[5] 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, where he was placed into a tag team dubbed the Commonwealth Connection with Harry Smith.[6][7][8]
2007 was also his first exposure to the main WWE roster, when he worked dark matches on March 5 and 26 before episodes of WWE Raw against Charlie Haas and Trevor Murdoch respectively. For these appearances he used the ring name Kofi Jamaica.[9][10] When he returned to the developmental territories he shortened his original ring name to Kofi Kingston, and continued to use both ring names throughout his duration there.[2] That May he also worked house shows, defeating Shelton Benjamin in Greenville, South Carolina on the 5th,[11] and Val Venis in Roanoke, Virginia on the 6th.[12]
When Florida based developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling opened in June, Kingston was relocated there, appearing at their first show on June 26 teaming with Eric Perez against Keith Walker and Ryklon Stephens in a losing effort.[13] Kingston worked there for most of the remainder of the year,[13][14] until he was called up to the main WWE roster.
ECW brand
Vignettes for Kingston's television debut began airing on the weekly ECW television show starting on December 6 2007view[15] The videos and official WWE website made note that he would be the first native-born Jamaican wrestler to work for the company. He debuted on January 22 2008 with a win over local wrestler David Owens.[16]
In wrestling
- Finishing and signature moves
- Cool Runnings (540 kick)
- Leg Drop onto chest (preceded by Kingston taunting)
- Entrance music
- This Is Why I'm Hot as remixed by Baby Cham and Junior Reed - DSW[17]
References
- ^ a b "Kofi Kingston's WWE Biography". WWE. Retrieved 2008-01-22.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "OWW: Kofi Kingston Profile". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-12-08.
- ^ a b c d Michael Bluth (2007-12-07). "Kofi Kingston Debuts On WWE TV: News On Who He Is". Rajah.com. Retrieved 2007-12-08.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Kofi Nahaje Kingston". Chaotic Wrestling Profiles. Chaotic Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
- ^ "DSW results - 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- ^ "OVW results - 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- ^ "DSW results - 2007". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- ^ "OVW results - 2007". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- ^ "RAW results - March 5, 2007". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
- ^ "RAW results - March 26, 2007". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
- ^ Simpson, Thomas (2007-05-06). "WWE house show report 5-5 Greenville, SC". Wrestling Observer. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
- ^ "WWE house show report 5-6 Roanoke". Wrestling Observer. 2007-05-06. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
- ^ a b "Florida Championship Wrestling results - 2007". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-12-06.
- ^ Wojcik, Alan J. (2007-11-30). "Ring report, 11/30/2007". Miami Herald.
- ^ Rote, Andrew (December 6 2007). "ECW Results 12/06/2007". WWE. Retrieved 2007-12-06.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Medalis, Kara (2008-01-22). "ECW Results 01/22/08". WWE. Retrieved 2008-01-22.
- ^ TJ Wilson vs Kofi Kingston on YouTube
