10 Times WWE Rewrote Their Own History
Examples of WWE rewriting the history books
4. Kofi Kingston being from Jamaica
When Kofi Kingston burst onto the scene in 2008, much was made of his Jamaican heritage.
Pre-debut vignettes showed him on the beaches of his ‘homeland’, he had reggae-inflected entrance music, wore Jamaican flag colours on his gear and he was called KOFI KINGSTON and spoke with a heavy Jamaican accent.
At some point shortly before Bragging Rights 2009, Kofi simply dropped the accent and started being billed from his real home country of Ghana, West Africa.
Naturally, that cheeky DX chappie Triple H couldn’t just let it slide and called Kingston out about his disappearing accent during a promo. And that was that, to be honest. No explanation or reasoning for the change. Just a wink and a nod and a friendly crotch chop and time to move on.
Which was for the best, really, since the New Day member only did the Jamaican thing on the indies because Prince Nana was doing a Ghanaian Prince gimmick in Ring of Honor and he didn’t want to be accused of trying to copy him.
