10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Kofi Kingston
10. His Early Middle Name
As the Road Dogg might say, "Oh, you didn't know?".
Back before he leapt onto ECW screens as a Caribbean cool cat with high-flying moves and bags of potential, Kofi Kingston was actually known as something else. Alliteration be damned, because his original WWE name in then-developmental territories Deep South and Ohio Valley Wrestling was Kofi Nahaje Kingston.
That's right. In 2006-2007, Kingston would bound to the ring and have his three-pronged name announced in full. We're not 100% sure why WWE decided the middle moniker was necessary though. It hardly fit in with the Jamaican gimmick (more on that later), and Nahaje actually has West-African heritage, not Caribbean.
Some African flavour definitely works with Kofi's real-life Ghanaian roots, but not with the character WWE bosses wanted him to play 13 years ago. Weird, and not something the promotion are ever likely to bring up again.