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Kofi Kingston
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Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah

Statistics
Ring name(s) Kofi Jamaica
Kofi Nahaje Kingston[1]
Kofi Kingston[1]
Billed height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Billed weight 225 lb (102 kg/16.1 st)[2]
Born Ghana, Africa[3]
Billed from Jamaica[2]
Trained by Chaotic Wrestling[3][1]
OVW staff[1][4]
DSW staff[1][4]
Debut 2005[1]
Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah[1][4] is a Ghanian[3] professional wrestler, better known under his ring name, Kofi Kingston. He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment working on the ECW brand.[2]

Contents [hide]
1 Career
1.1 Early career
1.2 World Wrestling Entertainment (2006-present)
1.2.1 Developmental territories
1.2.2 ECW brand
2 In wrestling
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Early career
After completing a degree in communications at Boston College,[3] Kingston made his professional debut in 2005.[4] 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.[1][5]

[edit] World Wrestling Entertainment (2006-present)

[edit] 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.[1] He debuted in the new company, using the same ring name, in a dark match loss to Montel Vontavious Porter on September 21.[6] 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.[7][8][9]

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.[10][11] 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.[1] That May he also worked house shows, defeating Shelton Benjamin in Greenville, South Carolina on the 5th,[12] and Val Venis in Roanoke, Virginia on the 6th.[13]

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.[14] Kingston worked there for most of the remainder of the year,[14][15] until he was called up to the main WWE roster.

[edit] ECW brand
A series of vignettes for Kingston’s television debut began airing on the weekly ECW television show starting on December 6, 2007.[16] view During this introduction phase the videos, official WWE website, and the ECW commentators all made note that he would be the first Jamaican-born person to wrestle for the company. He debuted on January 22, 2008 with a win over local wrestler David Owens.[17][18] After wrestling sporadic matches, Kingston was involved in his first major match; a 24-man Battle royal match that took place before Wrestlemania XXIV, where the winner would have received a ECW Championship match, but he was eliminated by Mark Henry.[19]

[edit] In wrestling
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