The Most Famous
WRESTLERS from Ghana
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Ghanaian Wrestlers of all time. This list of famous Ghanaian Wrestlers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Kofi Kingston (b. 1981)
With an HPI of 37.19, Kofi Kingston is the most famous Ghanaian Wrestler. His biography has been translated into 38 different languages on wikipedia.
Kofi Nahaje Sarkodie-Mensah (born August 14, 1981) is a Ghanaian-born American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Kofi Kingston and is part of The New Day. After graduating from Boston College, he decided to pursue a professional wrestling career, and began performing on the New England independent circuit as a Jamaican wrestler by the name of Kofi Nahaje Kingston. After signing a developmental deal with WWE in 2006, he shortened his ring name to Kofi Kingston. He debuted in WWEs brand ECW (Extreme Championship Wrestling) in 2008 using the same Jamaican character as he did on the independent circuit. In late 2009, he stopped being billed from Jamaica and dropped the accent, although he kept his ring name. He then started being billed from his home country of Ghana. From 2008 to 2013, Kingston became a four-time Intercontinental Champion, a three-time United States Champion, and a 1-time World Tag Team Champion with Evan Bourne. In 2014, he formed The New Day with Big E and Xavier Woods. The trio went on to break the record for the longest tag team championship reign in WWE history when they held the WWE (Raw) Tag Team Championship from August 2015 to December 2016, defending the titles under the Freebird rule. In total, Kingston is a 15-time tag team champion in WWE. In April 2019, Kingston defeated Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 35 to win the WWE Championship, giving him 23 total championships in WWE. He is the first, and currently only, African-born world champion in WWE history. His WWE Championship win also made him WWE's 30th Triple Crown Champion and 20th overall Grand Slam Champion (13th under the current format). With his NXT Tag Team Championship win in 2022, Kingston also became a Tag Team Triple Crown Champion, becoming the only wrestler to have won both the traditional and tag team version of the WWE Triple Crown, as well as having the most overall reigns with a WWE-branded tag team championship with 15. With the exception of a few months spent as a villain in 2015 with The New Day, Kingston has been a heroic character for almost the entirety of his WWE career. Kingston has also gotten some distinction through his numerous methods of avoiding elimination during the Royal Rumble. As of today Kofi Kingston is still in the tag team 'The New Day' with his partner Xavier Woods, however the 3rd member of the New Day Big E retired in 2022 due to injuries sustained to his neck.
2. Mihraç Akkuş (b. 2000)
With an HPI of 0.00, Mihraç Akkuş is the 2nd most famous Ghanaian Wrestler. His biography has been translated into different languages.
Mihraç Akkuş (born on 1 June 2000) is a Turkish judoka. Akkuş was the silver medalist at the 2020 Judo Grand Prix Tel Aviv and represented Turkey at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Ghanaian wrestlers born between 1981 and 2000. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Ghanaian wrestlers include Kofi Kingston, and Mihraç Akkuş. As of April 2024, 1 new Ghanaian wrestlers have been added to Pantheon including Mihraç Akkuş.
