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Chris Pallies
File:Kingkongbundy.jpg
BornNovember 7, 1957
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Big Daddy Bundy,
Boom Boom Bundy,
King Kong Bundy,
Man Mountain Cannon, Jr.
Billed height6 ft 4 in (193 cm)
Billed weight444 lb (201 kg)
Trained byLarry Sharpe
Debut1981

Chris Pallies (born November 7, 1957 in Atlantic City, New Jersey) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, King Kong Bundy.

Career

Weighing upwards of 450 pounds (204 kilograms) in his heyday, King Kong Bundy was an imposing – if somewhat cartoonish – grappler. With pale skin and a completely hairless body, he was often compared to the Michelin Man, and the contrast of his light complexion with his usual jet black singlet led color commentator Bobby "The Brain" Heenan to dub him "Shamu".

Bundy is best known for his appearances in the World Wrestling Federation in 1986, when he feuded with WWF World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan. At this time, he became known for his tendency to ask the referee for a five count (as opposed to the usual three count for pinfalls) whenever he dominated his opponent in a squash match. He is also remembered for winning the shortest match in Wrestlemania history, when he mauled S.D. "Special Delivery" Jones in what was announced as only nine seconds at Wrestlemania I. (The actual time clocks in at 23 seconds from bell to bell.)

On a nationally televised match on Saturday Night's Main Event, Hogan was wrestling challenger Don Muraco when he was ambushed by Bundy and his then manager, Bobby Heenan, thus setting up an onscreen feud between Hogan and Bundy. Hogan "required medical attention" from the beating sustained at the hands of the three attackers (the injury was not legitimate, and served to make Bundy look like a monster heel). The feud culminated with a steel cage matchup as the main event of WrestleMania 2 in Los Angeles, which was won by Hogan.

One year later at WrestleMania III, Bundy bodyslammed Little Beaver, a midget and then delivered a big elbow causing a disqualification in a mixed 6-man and midget tag team match.

In 1994, King Kong Bundy made his return to the WWF as a member of Ted Dibiase's stable, the Million Dollar Corporation, though he did not achieve the same amount of success as he did in the 1980s.

Bundy's stage name inspired the name of the sitcom family on the FOX Network sitcom "Married... with Children" and he made several appearances on that show.

He is immortalized in song by "I'll Take The Five", a tribute to Bundy's career performed by wrestling manager Kenny Casanova. (A parody of "I Will Survive")

Wrestling facts

Finishing and signature moves

Managers

Nicknames

  • The Atlantic City Annihilator
  • The Walking Condominium

Championships and accomplishments

  • IPW
  • 1-time IPW Heavyweight Champion
  • Maryland Championship Wrestling
  • 1-time MCW Heavyweight Champion
  • Mid-Southern Wrestling
  • PWI ranked him # 124 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI Years in 2003
  • Top Rope Wrestling
  • 1-time TRW Heavyweight Champion

Filmography

  • Married... with Children (1988) in episode "All in the Family" as "Uncle Irwin"
  • Moving (1988) as "Gorgo"
  • Married... with Children (1995) in episode "Flight of the Bumblebee" as himself
  • Weird Science (1996) in episode "Men in Tights" as himself
  • Bill's Seat (2002) as "Big Swede"


References

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