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Name : Kofi Kingston
Real Name : Kofi Nahaje Sarkodie-Mensah
From : Ghana, West Africa
Born : August 14, 1981
Height : 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight : 212 lb (96 kg)
Signature Move : Trouble in Paradise
Career : WWE Intercontinental Championship (4 times), WWE United States Championship (3 times), WWE Tag Team Championship (4 times, current) – with Evan Bourne (1), R-Truth (1), Big E and Xavier Woods (2), World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with CM Punk, Bragging Rights Trophy (2010) – with Team SmackDown (Big Show, Rey Mysterio, Alberto Del Rio, Edge, and Tyler Reks), Slammy Award (1 time) { "Tell Me I Did Not Just See That" Moment of the Year (2012)[171]Hand walking during the Royal Rumble match to avoid elimination. }
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 rivaled only by his limitless athleticism, which he displays fearlessly every time he steps in the ring. Most of the people who don’t like Kofi Kingston are the Superstars he faces each week — and that’s only because they can rarely catch him. His dazzling aerials only belie what is truly a 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.