Retired professional wrestler and former WWE star Kharma who is also famously known as The Awesome Kong recently remembered is short run in the All Elite Wrestling and talked about it. She took retirement from Professional wrestling in 2021.
Kia Stevens aka Awesome Kong aka Kharma made her professional wrestling debut back in 2006. She worked on various promotions on the independent circuit as well as in Japan as well. She had been a very famous name in the Indies during her time as she won a lot of championships all over the indies.
Awesome Kong Reflects On Her AEW Run
But she mostly became famous because of her successful TNA Wrestling run which continued from 2007 to 2010. In this 3 years she won the TNA Knockouts Championship two times in total, and she also won the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship one time along with Hamada. In 2010 she signed with WWE for the first time in her career.
In WWE she was renamed as Kharma. She only had a two year long run in WWE and it was not that successful either. In 2012 she was released from WWE and she returned to the independent circuit.
She also worked in Japan and in TNA Wrestling too. In 2019 she joined the newly founded professional wrestling promotion AEW and worked 2 years before her retirement in 2021. On the same here she was inducted into the TNA Hall of Fame.
Kharma who is also famously known as The Awesome Kong recently spoke to Insight With Chris Van Vliet where she remembered is short run in the All Elite Wrestling and talked about it. She took retirement from Professional wrestling in 2021. She said;
“I don’t want to sound like I’m bashing the crew over there at AEW, especially since we were just up and running. We are all new executives and trying to think outside the box and really give it to y’all. Something new, something that hasn’t been seen. We’ve seen it all. We were trying to give you something that you haven’t seen.”
“I felt unheard. I wasn’t in control. All I could do was say, ‘I have this idea of XYZ.’ I couldn’t get in the room where final decisions were made. Believe me, Kia [referring to her real name Kia Stevens] stalked that room. I would stay there after big meetings and pick up the water bottles and cups like, ‘Huh, Y’all need…you need me to go? Okay’ [Laughs]. I tried to get into that last meeting where decisions were made. Never had a chance to.”
“That’s just not going to happen, so I’m not going to push it.’ When you see this [makes a box with her hands] is who they are comfortable with making decisions, that’s not a read or a critique, that’s just who was comfortable making decisions. What do you do? It’s out of my control. If I had control, give me 15 minutes of Kia. Kia’s 15 Minutes of Fame. ‘Go out there and steal the show from them boys. You, you, you. Nyla (Rose), go steal the show from the boys.’”
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