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Kofi Kingston
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Ghanaian-American professional wrestler
OverviewAI-generated
Kofi Kingston is a male professional wrestler and musician born on August 14, 1981, in Kumasi, Ghana. He holds citizenship in both Ghana and the United States. Kingston began his work period in 2006 and is a member of the group The New Day. He was trained by Killer Kowalski, Ohio Valley Wrestling, and Deep South Wrestling.
He is educated at Boston College and speaks English. His pseudonyms include Sir Kofi Kingston, Kofi Nahaje Kingston, and Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah. Kingston has three children and his official residence is listed as Ghana and Jamaica. In addition to wrestling, he performs as a musician using his voice.
Synthesized by Vinony from 35 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, MusicBrainz, Crossref, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Film & TV
Acting · 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
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1957
- Active to
- 1967
Discography
- The Kingston Trio1958
- The Kingston Trio at Large1959
- Here We Go Again!1959
- The Last Month of the Year1960
- Sold Out1960
- String Along1960
- Close‐Up1961
- Goin' Places1961
- Make Way1961
- New Frontier1962
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,079
- Total plays
- 8,421
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kofi+Kingston">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,082x
- Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 4,515x
- Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 3,508x
- A small-molecule inhibitor of the NLRP3 inflammasome for the treatment of inflammatory diseases
· 2015 · cited 2,600x
- Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 2,565x
via Crossref · CC0
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
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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.