WWE star and former WWE Champion Kofi Kingston who is also a former thirteen times WWE Tag Team Champion recently talked about his previous fake Jamaican accent and revealed that he was worried if the Jamaican fans were offended by it.
After more than two years of joining WWE, he made his main roster debut. From the very beginning WWE treated him as a mid carder and a lower mid carder. As Vince McMahon does not like to put high flyers on the main he went very much, being a high flyer himself he could not be elevated to the main event status.
Kofi Kingston Reveals He Was Worried If Jamaican Fans Were Offended By His Fake Accent
But in different criterias he was more than enough successful. He won a total of seven mid card Championship, a total of four IC titles and free United States championships. He also won a total of 13 Tag Team championships in WWE. Among 11 of them were won during New Day days.
Then finally WWE gave him the unthinkable; a main event title run. At WrestleMania 35, she defeated Daniel Bryan to win the WWE Championship. It made fans really happy. He kept on retaining the championship for six months before Brock Lesnar defeated him in a special episode of Smackdown. The defeat showed that his push is gone for good.
After losing the WWE Championship he went back to work as mostly a tag team wrestler as a member of New Day once again. Of course he got some singles title matches but none of them were effective enough to build him back as a singles star. Right now, his stable is out of the tag team picture as well.
Kofi Kingston who is also a former thirteen times WWE Tag Team Champion recently spoke to SHAK Wrestling where he talked about his previous fake Jamaican accent and revealed that he was worried if the Jamaican fans were offended by it. He said;
“Yeah, several times. I think like the thing about you know, Jamaican and dialect they speak with the patois and everything you can turn it on and turn it off and a lot of different cases so people would speak to me in the dialect and I’m like, oh, and then when they would hear me speak they were like, wait a minute, something’s kind of off.
“And I feel like they knew, but it wasn’t any kind of animosity or anything like that. Although I was very terrified that like, Jamaicans would be really, really angry with me. I actually went to Jamaica. At one point, and like, oh my god, I can’t believe this. I had an appearance there. And I was trying to tell them they know I’m not Jamaican now, but they welcomed me in with open arms.
“I think they love the entertainment value that we provide as WWE Superstars and they were just happy that someone was out there portraying a Jamaican in a positive light, luckily. But yeah, It got pretty awkward sometimes coming across different Jamaicans when they didn’t know, I was in fact, not from Jamaica, but it’s all good now.”
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