Awesome Kong | |
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![]() Kong in 2014 | |
Birth name | Kia Michelle Stevens |
Born | Carson, California, U.S.[1] | September 4, 1977
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Amazing Kong Awesome Kong Kharma[2][3] Margaret[4] |
Billed height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)[5][6] |
Billed weight | 273 lb (124 kg)[5][6] |
Billed from | Tokyo, Japan[6] |
Trained by | Inoki Dojo Noah Denker[7] |
Debut | October 20, 2002[7] |
Retired | August 28, 2021 |
Kia Michelle 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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