Awesome Kong - TheSportsDB.com

Home / Sport / Fighting / _No League / _Retired Wrestling / Awesome Kong

Name
Awesome Kong

Thumb

Image Source: Unknown report

User Rating

(0 users)

Complete

60%

Born
1977 (47 years old)

Birth Place

Carson, California

Position
Wrestler

Status

Ethnicity
White

Team Number

Height
5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)

Weight
272 lb (123 kg)

Outfitter

Kit

Side

Agent

Wage Year

Player Cutout

Full Body Render

Sport

Fighting

Team
_Retired WWE

2nd Team

League
_No League

Creative Commons Artwork
No

Description
Available in:

Kia Stevens (born September 4, 1977) is an American actress and retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her time with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA)/Impact Wrestling under the ring name Awesome Kong. She also worked with Ring of Honor (ROH), Shimmer Women Athletes, and All Elite Wrestling (AEW), and with WWE under the ring name Kharma.

Stevens began her professional wrestling career in 2002 after appearing on a reality television show. For the first five years of her career, she primarily wrestled in Japan and held numerous championships there. In 2006, she began wrestling in her native United States again, wrestling on the independent circuit before appearing on national television with TNA, where she was a driving force in the foundation of their Knockouts division. During her time with TNA, she became a two-time TNA Knockouts Champion and one-time TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion with Hamada. She later signed with WWE, where she became the third woman to enter the men's Royal Rumble match in 2012, and she began making appearances for then-upstart AEW towards the end of the decade.

Stevens was ranked first in the inaugural list of Pro Wrestling Illustrated's PWI Women's 100 in 2008. She retired from professional wrestling in 2021 and was subsequently inducted into the Impact Hall of Fame. As an actress, she is best known for playing Tammé "The Welfare Queen" Dawson in the wrestling-themed Netflix original comedy series GLOW.