(1964-01-06) January 6, 1964 (age 60)[1] Santiago de Cuba Province, Cuba[2]
Relatives
Dominik Mysterio (godson)[3]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
The Comet Kid[4] Conan the Barbarian[4] El Centurión[4] The Incredible Hulk K-Dawg Konan Konnan[5] Konnan el Barbaro[4] Konnan the Great The Latin Fury[4] Max Moon[5] El Relámpago Speedy Gonzales
Billed height
180 cm (5 ft 11 in)[6]
Billed weight
113.5 kg (250 lb)[6]
Billed from
Mexico City, Mexico[7][8]
Trained by
Super Astro[7] Negro Casas[5] Eddie Guerrero[4] Rey Misterio Sr.[7]
Debut
1987[7]
Military service
Allegiance
United States
Service/branch
United States Navy
Unit
USS Cape Cod (AD-43)
Charles Rudy Ashenoff (born Carlos Santiago Espada Moises; January 6, 1964),[1][9] better known by his ring name Konnan, is a Cuban-born American professional wrestling personality, manager, and former professional wrestler.[5] He is currently signed to Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA). In Impact, he was the manager of The Latin American Xchange (LAX) and currently serves as a member of the creative team. During a career spanning almost three decades, he has wrestled for independent and national promotions in the United States and Mexico, and held fifteen title belts in nine promotions. He was also involved in the creation of Lucha Underground, where he was supposed to serve as a writer and producer, but ended up in an on-camera role as manager to Prince Puma throughout the first season. Outside of wrestling, Konnan is an occasional rapper.
He is best known to United States audiences for his run in World Championship Wrestling as part of the nWo stable and as part of The Filthy Animals. He also formed
the 3 Live Kru for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in the early 2000s and later the Latin American Xchange (LAX) stable there. In Mexico, Konnan was the first-ever CMLL World Heavyweight Champion, and the leader of the Foreign Legion in AAA when they were the top stable.
^ abWrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer, ed., May 10, 2010, issue.
^Milner, John (October 21, 2005). "Konnan". SLAM! Wrestling. Canadian Online Explorer. Archived from the original on July 14, 2012. Retrieved February 18, 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^"KONNAN Talks AEW, WWE, Impact Wrestling, Lucha Libre & More! {INTERVIEW}". Instinct Culture by Denise Salcedo. September 4, 2020. Archived from the original on December 22, 2021. Retrieved September 12, 2020. His thoughts on his godson Dominik's performance in WWE
^ abcdef"CageMatch Bio". CageMatch.de. Archived from the original on February 10, 2013. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
^ abcd"Konnan's biography". Online World of Wrestling. Archived from the original on March 30, 2009. Retrieved January 26, 2006.
^ ab"Wrestling Inc. profile". wrestlinginc.com. Archived from the original on September 16, 2020. Retrieved October 2, 2020.
^ abcd"OWW profile". OWW. Archived from the original on June 30, 2020. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
^Statistics for Professional Wrestlers. Kappa Publications. pp. 66–79. 2008 Edition. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^Sims, Steve. "Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame/Founded by Dave Meltzer - Konnan" Archived June 17, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Accessed August 1, 2016. Online copy of May 10, 2010 Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
Santiago Espada Moises; January 6, 1964), better known by his ring name Konnan, is a Cuban-born American professional wrestling personality, manager, and...
Wrestling (MLW). The group achieved initial success as a stable consisting of Konnan, Hernandez and Homicide. Puerto Rican wrestler Apolo was a brief original...
Impact Wrestling, and changed their names to Ortiz and Santana. They joined Konnan as the members of the stable The Latin American Xchange (LAX) and became...
strut and "Wooo!". During a promo on the May 27, 1999 edition of Thunder, Konnan specifically thanked Rey Mysterio Jr., Billy Kidman, and Kevin Nash for...
Championship Wrestling's Starrcade 1990 pay-per-view event where he teamed with Konnan and competed in the "Pat O'Connor Memorial International Cup" representing...
debuted in July 2003, and was initially a trio consisting of Ron Killings, Konnan and B.G. James. Each member exemplified an ethnic stereotype, and rapped...
broke with the company in favor of establishing his own group, along with Konnan, and much of the young talent from CMLL. AAA would look for talent from...
asked Killings and Konnan whether Kip could join the stable. Following a heated argument between Konnan and B.G., both Killings and Konnan gave their approval...
two time World Tag Team Champion, once with Mysterio Jr. and once with Konnan, and in the Cruiserweight Tag Team Champion final with Mysterio Jr. Upon...
in Mexico, Vampiro began a real-life feud with fellow CMLL headliner Konnan. Konnan had been the top star in the promotion prior to Vampiro's arrival and...
was the first CMLL title to be created, and the inaugural champion was Konnan el Bárbaro, who won the title on June 9, 1991. The current champion is Gran...
two-time National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) World Tag Team Champion with Konnan and Ron Killings under the Freebird Rule as the 3 Live Kru. He twice competed...
group's inclusion of fan favorites Mysterio and Konnan. Following the breakup of the Soldiers, Konnan and Mysterio moved on to form the Filthy Animals...
AAA Worldwide and Japan's Pro Wrestling Noah between 2016 and 2018, until Konnan, the intermediary between the promotions, left The Crash. On February 21...
role by Contra Unit during 2019, and was placed in direct opposition to Konnan and became involved in feuds with other talents including Sami Callihan...
Sid Vicious, Juventud Guerrera, Curt Hennig, Disco Inferno, Billy Kidman, Konnan, Rey Mysterio Jr., Perry Saturn, Prince Iaukea, Van Hammer, Gorgeous George...
the United States Heavyweight Championship against Konnan at SuperBrawl VI. Later that night, Konnan defeated OMG to win the title. The following night...
arrived to AAA on May 18 for a confrontation with Konnan and La Sociedad. In the end, Jarrett and Konnan revealed that they were in fact on the same page...
fellow luchadores Rey Misterio Jr., Psicosis, Konnan and La Parka, all of whom were also wrestling for Konnan's Promo Azteca in Mexico at the time. He debuted...
Scott Hall. As a result of the match, Misterio was forced to unmask; had Konnan and Misterio won, Miss Elizabeth would have been shaved bald. This match...
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