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Kingston was born in Ghana in 1981 and moved to the United States where they settled in Boston when he was at a young age.
The Dreadlocked Dynamo joined the WWE main roster in 2007 but it took almost 12 years to make it to the first ever African-born WWE Champion.
The New Day member's historic feat at WrestleMania 35 where he defeated Daniel Bryan.
The WWE Champion is humbled to hold that distinction but hopes for all the different backgrounds get something out of his multi-year struggle and the fact that he never gave up on his dreams.
Kingston told USA Today: "It means a lot, especially from a standpoint representation.
"It's always important for people to watch WWE, especially because it's a global product, it's important for people all over the world to be able to look at the screen and see somebody who looks like them doing great things.
"And in turn, that inspires them to do great things.
"Hey, I can do this because I can see someone who looks like me and he's doing it."
"It 's all too important that people who do not want to look like me and can also look at my story for inspiration, because the main thing is I struggled, you know?
"To get here it's been a long, hard struggle to make it to this point, and anybody out there, whether you're black, white, Asian, South American, whatever, you can look to my story and see I struggled to get here goal I kept fighting through.
"I did not give up, I did not take no for an answer, and I did it.
"It took me a long time to do it, but I did it.
"Anything is possible for anybody if they work hard enough."
Kingston's next challenger is not yet known but he looks like he's not having a break with Bryan any time soon as his rival is reportedly injured at WrestleMania.
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