6'0
212 lbs.
Ghana, West Africa
Trouble in Paradise
Intercontinental Champion; World Tag Team Champion; United States Champion; WWE Tag Team Champion
KOFI KINGSTON BIO
The energy contained within one Kofi Kingston could power a major city for several years.
A Ghanaian grappler with a beaming smile, Kingston’s boundless enthusiasm is only rivaled by his limitless athleticism, which he displays fearlessly every time he steps in the ring to the delight of the entire WWE Universe. In fact, the only people who don’t like Kofi Kingston are the Superstars he faces each week — and that’s only because they can rarely catch him. The leader of the Boom Squad’s dazzling aerials only belie what is actually a truly fierce fighter, who can curtail the smiles to kick it up in intensity if an opponent is foolish enough to set him off.
Randy Orton, for example, tested Kofi’s patience in late 2009, and paid for it when Kofi defaced The Viper’s customized NASCAR before targeting Orton himself, leaping off a balcony at Madison Square Garden and splintering him through a table. Kofi’s determination makes him a legitimate threat, and repeated favorite, in the annual Money in the Bank Ladder Matches, even though he’s yet to snag the coveted briefcase amid his rampant boom-dropping. His creativity to survive in the Royal Rumble Match — like walking on his hands, lunging onto an eliminated Superstar’s back or using a chair as a pogo stick — has quickly grown into an institution at the yearly January event.
Kingston’s tag team and solo prowess has netted him one of the best championship resumes in WWE. In November 2014, Kingston found new life by forming the ultra-positive — but not well-received — New Day with Big E and Xavier Woods.
Chants of “New Day sucks!” started to get under the team’s skin. When they began to use nefarious tactics to win matches, including Kingston’s handful of trunks that helped his team capture the WWE Tag Team Championship at Extreme Rules, it only made the jeers louder. The trio added a second reign to their resume at SummerSlam, but The Dudley Boyz returned the next night and set their sights on the champions. At Night of Champions, Woods interrupted in the Tag Title Match, causing a disqualification decision and allowing The New Day to retain.
Most recently, even with Xavier Woods on the shelf after being put through a table earlier in the week on Raw, The New Day managed to defend the WWE Tag Team Championships against The Dudley Boyz at Hell in a Cell.
What lies ahead remains to be seen, but it's unlikely to stop Kingston from shining brighter — probably because he actually keeps leaping closer and closer to the sun.
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