April 7, 1986, a day like any other for someone but not for wrestling fans. On that day, Wrestlemania 2 was held, something that now has become the most important annual event of the WWE. WM2, after more than thirty years, is still an “extraordinary” edition for certain elements, since it was the only Wrestlemania that was held on Monday, the only one in three different locations (New York, Chicago and Los Angeles) and the only one with a steel cage match. This was exactly the final main event of the show between Hulk Hogan and King Kong Bundy who unfortunately left us recently, at the age of 61, as he was born on April 7, 1951 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Without even following the weekly WWE shows, anyone would have bet on any of the following online casino that Christopher Alan “Chris” Pallies (that’s his real name) was a heel.
Weighting 458 libs with a height of 6.4 feet, King Kong Bundy was eternally pale in color with a completely hairless body in stark contrast to his black costume. He perhaps represented the first perfect monster heel, the one that was supposed to scare the children who found comfort in seeing him come out defeated by the battles against the faces of the situation. Sometimes it was by the already mentioned Hulk Hogan (who in these days remembered him on his social accounts just like other WWE superstars of the present and the past) or by another great rival of his, André The Giant.
Wrestlemania 2 was undoubtedly the highpoint of his heel career, but he is still remembered for his habit of asking the referee to count up to five while pinning his opponent instead of the usual count of three, to emphasize his complete domination over his unlucky foe. He is also often cited for the second fastest victory in WrestleMania’s history, when he crashed S.D. Jones at WrestleMania I in 1985. The match lasted only 23 seconds in total.
Even in Wrestlemania III, King Kong Bundy left his mark in the match along with the midgets Lord Littlebrook and Little Tokyo, against Hillbilly Jim, joined by the midgets The Haiti Kid and Little Beaver. King Kong Bundy’s team was disqualified when Bundy attacked Little Beaver (the match required the midgets to fight against each other). According to well-informed sources, Little Beaver himself was severely injured by Bundy’s attack, so that after a while he gave up his career as a midget wrestler.
After a long absence, he returned to the WWE in the 90s as a member of the Million Dollar Corporation headed by Ted DiBiase. So began a feud against The Undertaker that culminated in a match (far from being the main event of the evening) at WrestleMania XI in 1995 where he was defeated. However, by that time, wrestling had changed after almost 10 years and Bundy himself no longer had the athletic skills of the past.
In parallel to his activity in the world of wrestling, in 1988 he was featured in the film Moving starring Richard Pryor and in recent years he had began a career as a comedian participating in several sitcoms.
