For the male wrestler who appeared in WCW, see Colossal Kongs.
Awesome Kong
Kong in 2014
Birth name
Kia Stevens
Born
(1977-09-04) September 4, 1977 (age 46) Carson, California, U.S.[1]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
Amazing Kong Awesome Kong Kharma[2][3] Margaret[4]
Billed height
5 ft 11 in (180 cm)[5][6]
Billed weight
273 lb (124 kg)[5][6]
Billed from
Tokyo, Japan[6]
Trained by
Noah Denker[7]
Debut
October 20, 2002[7]
Retired
August 28, 2021
Kia Stevens (born September 4, 1977) is an American actress and semi-retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her time with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling/Impact Wrestling under the ring name Awesome Kong. She also worked with Ring of Honor (ROH), Shimmer Women Athletes, 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.[8]
Stevens was ranked first in the inaugural list of Pro Wrestling Illustrated's PWI Women's 100 in 2008.[9] 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.[10]
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^Caldwell, James. "Caldwell's WWE Royal Rumble report 1/29: Ongoing "virtual time" coverage of live PPV – Rumble match, Punk-Ziggler, Cena-Kane, steel cage". Pro Wrestling Torch. Archived from the original on 11 December 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
^"Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) Female 50 for 2008". Internet Wrestling Database. Archived from the original on February 1, 2017. Retrieved September 10, 2010.
^Hatchett, Keisha (26 June 2017). "GLOW: Kia Stevens Explains Why Her Welfare Queen Gimmick Hit Close to Home". TV Guide. Archived from the original on 13 July 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling/Impact Wrestling under the ring name AwesomeKong. She also worked with Ring of Honor (ROH), Shimmer Women Athletes, All...
promotion. The team was made up of AwesomeKong and Krusher Kong (Krusher Kong was originally billed as King Kong, but changed his name for copyright...
known as AwesomeKong to form a regular tag team known as The Colossal Kongs. There is a lot of confusion regarding the career of Krusher Kong (Thompson)...
studio, 1997–2000 Awesomeness (company), established as AwesomenessTV is a Los Angeles–based film and television studio AwesomeKong (born 1977), female...
Britt Baker, Nyla Rose, and Kylie Rae and announced that she was adding AwesomeKong to the match, which Baker won, establishing Rhodes as a heel. Rhodes...
returned to the company the following year on January 14. Later on, AwesomeKong, Alissa Flash, Roxxi, Traci Brooks, Roxxi, ODB, and Tara (although would...
October 2007. During her time in TNA, she had an acclaimed feud with AwesomeKong, which is generally considered one of the greatest women's wrestling...
name of "Aja Kong" Kia Stevens (born 1977), female professional wrestler who went by the ring names of "Amazing Kong" and "AwesomeKong" Kōng, a concept...
broke that AwesomeKong had filed a lawsuit against Clem for an alleged threatening phone call. On The Cowhead Show, Clem confronted Kong. Clem returned...
Champion AwesomeKong was challenged by Bynum, under the name Josie Robinson, and fellow OVW regular Serena Deeb, with the winner claiming both Kong's $25...
promotion's inaugural event, Double or Nothing, in a match with Britt Baker, AwesomeKong, and Nyla Rose in a losing effort. Rae was advertised to compete against...
helped Taryn Terrell retain her TNA Women's Knockout Championship against AwesomeKong, with Terrell joining The Dollhouse in the process. The Dollhouse wrestled...
returned AwesomeKong, after Kong attacked her. This led to a match between the two, on March 6, which Taryn won via disqualification and Kong would continue...
Kurt Angle, Jeff Hardy, Gail Kim, Mr. Anderson, Abyss and Matt Hardy. AwesomeKong also re-joined the company following several years of absence. During...
later named Raisha Saeed and billed from Syria. She was in AwesomeKong's corner when Kong defeated Gail Kim to win the TNA Women's Knockout Championship...
Rayne in a six-Knockout tag team match, where they defeated the team of AwesomeKong, ODB, and Tara. Two weeks later on Impact!, she once again teamed with...
and, on July 1, in a three–way match, which also involved AwesomeKong. In June, Brooke and Kong formed an alliance to compete against Terrell and The Dollhouse...
then placed into a more active in-ring role, being pushed to challenge AwesomeKong for the TNA Women's Knockout Championship at Final Resolution, after...
four-way match with the surprise addition of AwesomeKong. Rose was not involved in the decision, after spearing Kong into the ring steps shortly before Baker...
Dynamite, where she was defeated due to interferences by Brandi Rhodes, AwesomeKong, Mel, and the debuting Luther. She received another opportunity to compete...
May 29 episode of Impact!. She responded to the $25,000 challenge from AwesomeKong to any females age 18 or older in the audience, but was not selected...
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