King Kong Bundy

King Kong Bundy was one of those larger-than-life heels who made you genuinely uneasy just looking at him — a massive, menacing presence out of Atlantic City who became one of the WWF's most feared villains through the mid-1980s. His WrestleMania 2 match against Hulk Hogan inside a steel cage is the kind of spectacle that still holds up, and his insistence on the referee counting to five instead of three was such a brilliantly petty bit of character work. What I always appreciated was that underneath all that menace he clearly had a sense of humor about himself — his appearances on Married with Children showed real comic timing. He passed in 2019, but his era of big-man heel wrestling feels genuinely irreplaceable.

Name (English)

King Kong Bundy

Name (Japanese)

キングコング・バンディ

Reading

きんぐこんぐ・ばんでぃ

Born

November 7, 1957 – March 4, 2019

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rooster

Origin

Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States

Height

193 cm

Occupation

television actor / professional wrestler

High school

Washington Township High School

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.kingkongbundy.com/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3

Tags

• New Jersey
• television actor
• professional wrestler

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.