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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 5, 2009 2:18:43 GMT -5
Ok, this is a lil late since I DVR'd Smackdown and haven't really had a chance to watch untill now since I've been working.
Anyway, before I was wondering if they were dropping his jamaican gimmick soon, when he talked without the accent... but when he came out for the tag team match on Smackdown, I noticed they are billing him from "Ghana, West Africa" now. So, he's a Rastafarian Ghanan? Just seems kinda random that he still has his islandy music and all that jazz, but billed from Africa.
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Post by Bubble Lead on Oct 5, 2009 2:22:13 GMT -5
The commentators mentioned that he was born in Africa, but spent a lot of time in Jamaica.
Personally I feel its rather stupid. Its not like most wrestlers arent already billed from places they have probably never lived in.
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Post by VengeanceGOD on Oct 5, 2009 2:37:20 GMT -5
The only thing I can think is that it may have been something Kofi requested, to represent his home country.
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Post by ilggant on Oct 5, 2009 3:07:47 GMT -5
The only thing I can think is that it may have been something Kofi requested, to represent his home country. I can understand this. I would be highly pissed off if our one and only hall of fame wrestler Baron Mikel Scicluna had been billed from somewhere else. It's ok if you live in the US, but when it's a one-off like Malta, Ghana, Greece, whatever, you want people to be aware of your country (or your fans want to be acknowledged). |
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Post by Paul Servo on Oct 5, 2009 6:32:43 GMT -5
he'll allways jamacanmecrazy
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Post by beggar on Oct 5, 2009 9:38:32 GMT -5
well, he was like Kevin Thorn. Indeed APPEARED!! to be a vampire, but in fact, the announcers INSISTED to us he was very into the "gothic lifestyle". Makes complete sense....
.... no it doesn't... who am I kidding.... *cry*
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Post by James McCloud IS John Godot on Oct 5, 2009 10:24:27 GMT -5
How about this? Kofi Kingston is a naturalised citizen of Jamaica but has recently experienced an upswing in patriotic love towards his birth place, Ghana, due to its recent election which caused power to be transferred from one legitimately elected leader to another, securing Ghana's status as a stable democracy, hence the change. It's certainly better than "Kofi was announced from Jamaica because he really liked it and still does but is now announced from Ghana anyway." even if it is boring.  |
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Post by Avalanche Alvarez on Oct 5, 2009 12:23:44 GMT -5
Should've started him in Ghana to begin with.
But I'm guessing the writers figured Average Fan / Joe Punchclock don't know where the hell Ghana is v.s. Jamaica.
Thanks for dumbing it down, WWE.
The fans' heads hurt less that way.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2009 12:26:14 GMT -5
Honestly? I had no problem with them pushing him as from Jamaica and I don't get why anyone would, but at the same time it makes sense to have dropped it now - the smiling Jamaican thing is one of those things that just couldn't break the main event scene I don't think, while I don't think being from Africa will limit him in the same way.
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Post by brettappedout (BLM) on Oct 5, 2009 12:57:06 GMT -5
It's simple, and Cole and Lawler made it simple. He was born in Ghana, but grew up in Jamaica and lives the Jamaica lifestyle.
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Post by James McCloud IS John Godot on Oct 5, 2009 13:00:09 GMT -5
It's simple, and Cole and Lawler made it simple. He was born in Ghana, but grew up in Jamaica and lives the Jamaica lifestyle. So why switch back to Ghana? Is he kind of bored of the Jamaican lifestyle now from working in America so long? If so, why isn't he announced from a U.S. city? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2009 13:04:50 GMT -5
The solution is to announce him from Des Moines.
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 5, 2009 13:30:44 GMT -5
Fixed for how WWE generally goes about this :-P
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Post by Fiddleford H. McGucket on Oct 5, 2009 14:12:08 GMT -5
Since WWE daoesn't know where he's from on a consistant basis...why not announce him from "Parts Unknown"?
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Post by Soultastic on Oct 5, 2009 14:23:15 GMT -5
It's simple, and Cole and Lawler made it simple. He was born in Ghana, but grew up in Jamaica and lives the Jamaica lifestyle. So why switch back to Ghana? Is he kind of bored of the Jamaican lifestyle now from working in America so long? If so, why isn't he announced from a U.S. city? Maybe he wanted people to acknowledge his home town. I know I would be pissed if I joined the E and was announced from Mexico (nothing against Mexico, but you get the point). |
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Post by Lenny: Smooth like Keith Stone on Oct 5, 2009 14:27:17 GMT -5
Previously he was jamaican us crazy....
Now he's ghana make us go wild.
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Post by James McCloud IS John Godot on Oct 5, 2009 15:21:32 GMT -5
So why switch back to Ghana? Is he kind of bored of the Jamaican lifestyle now from working in America so long? If so, why isn't he announced from a U.S. city? Maybe he wanted people to acknowledge his home town. I know I would be pissed if I joined the E and was announced from Mexico (nothing against Mexico, but you get the point). Yes but his gimmick reason isn't that he finally convince the Man to let him be real, maaaan. His gimmick reason is that he lived in Jamaica for ages and so represented them as a native son. Then decided not to. With the explanation given by the announcers focusing on how much he loves Jamaica, not Ghana. |
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Post by SAJ Forth on Oct 5, 2009 15:54:53 GMT -5
They do seem to enjoy confusing people.
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 5, 2009 16:15:53 GMT -5
I think it's funny with the African gimmicks they've used on people, they actually sign a guy FROM Africa, and make him Jamaican.
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Post by "Dashing" Dr.VonPhoenix on Oct 6, 2009 23:47:37 GMT -5
*reads thread*
*looks at Kofi*
*looks at Tony Atlas*
*looks at Tony Atlas's Saba Simba ring gear hanging up in the corner*
Oh, no... Vince... no, man...
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